Quotations about characters.

Question 1

Character, Mr. Utterson.

Answer 1

‘Mr Utterson was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile;’ This shows how Mr Utterson is a stern and proper man. (ch.1)

Question 2

Character, Mr. Utterson

Answer 2

‘But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering with envy at the high pressure of spirits of their misdeeds’ Even though he is a moral person, is tolerant of bad behaviour. Links to ideas about duality. (ch.1)

Question 3

Character, Mr Hyde

Answer 3

‘..trampled calmly’. The use of the oxymoron foreshadows the dual nature of Mr Hyde and emphasises. the evil nature of Hyde. (ch.1)

Question 4

Character, Mr Hyde

Answer 4

‘It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damn juggernaut.’ This description of Hyde implies that he is inhuman; a machine with no feelings. (ch.1)

Question 5

Character, Mr Hyde

Answer 5

‘God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?’ This suggests that Mr Hyde is not a fully evolved human. The noun ‘troglodytic’ means ‘prehistoric cave dweller’ implies that he is wild and savage. (ch.2)

Question 6

Character, Mr Hyde

Answer 6

‘..and with ape like fury’ This implies that Mr Hyde is wild and animal like; it suggests that he is inhuman. It could also suggest he is not fully evolved. (ch.4)

Question 7

Character, Mr Hyde

Answer 7

‘…there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me..’ This infers that Mr Hyde is cursed and evil. He is described as a ‘creature’ not a human. (ch. 9)

Question 8

Character, Mr Utterson

Answer 8

‘If he be Mr Hyde…I shall be Mr Seek.’ This implies that Mr Utterson is a very curious character. (ch.2)

Question 9

Character, Dr Jekyll

Answer 9

‘Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong; wrong in mind.’ Dr Lanyon describing Dr Jekyll. It foreshadows the fact that Dr Jekyll develops a split personality later in the novel. (ch.2)

Question 10

Character, Dr Jekyll

Answer 10

‘-a large well-made, smooth faced man of fifty with something of a slyish cast perhaps.’ This implies that Dr Jekyll is the perfect Victorian gentleman but the adjective ‘slyish’ infers that there is something deceptive about him. (ch.3)

Question 11

Character, Dr Jekyll

Answer 11

‘The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to his very lips and there came a blackness about his eyes.’ This infers that Dr Jekyll is hiding something. The ‘blackness’ implies that it could be something evil.