Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Flashcards
What is the quote presenting Hyde as a primitive being when Poole and Utterson walk into his lab?
(Science)
‘That masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals’
- a physical manifestation of the pre-human animal, the idea that such an animal could hide behind the facade of a well - represented member of the community would be very unsettling and a nightmarish notion for many Victorians.
What is the quote that describes Jekyll’s agony when turning into Hyde?
(Science)
‘tortured with throes and longings’
- Victorians thought the earth was made by God, scientists like Darwin contradicted this theory. Here, the language of agony links to the Christian notion of hell.
What is the quote that describes Jekyll’s experiments?
(Science)
‘some strange things’
- this vague language is deliberatley used to create ambiguity and mystery around his medicines, and evoke anxiety and fear upon the reader.
What is the quote that shows Jekyll has two characters?
(Duality of man)
‘man is not truly one, but truly two’
- the repressive society that he lives in convinces him that this is the case, therefore he tries to prove it by dividing the two states of good and evil, the experiment does not go to plan and his evil side results in overiding his good side.
What is the quote that describes the fog in Chapter 4?
(Duality of man)
‘like the light of some strange conflagration’
- the inferno and conflagration in the vapours in the air represents the violent conflict of good and evil. Stevenson uses language associated with battle and war to illustrate and allude the internal conflict within Jekyll.
What is the quote that Jekyll had written in Chapter 10 as he transformed to the dark side?
(Duality of man)
‘my devil had be long caged, he came out roaring.’
- Hyde is the sinful side of Jekyll that is there to explore the unbending and civilised world he lives in. Escapism, it shows how the evil creature within him is released in the cathartic act of transforming into the dark side.
What is the quote as Jekyll refers to sin?
(Religion and sin)
‘burden of his life’ creates hyde to rid himself of ‘extraneous evil’.
- an internal struggle between Jekyll and Hyde, a symbol of the biblical idea of the enternal struggle of good and evil within human beings.
What is the quote describing the ‘incident’?
‘This inexplicable incident.. seemed like the Babylonian finger on the wall’.
- a symbol of the ghostly hand that appeared to write out the death sentence of a Chaldean King on the wall with his finger, thus a bibilical scene explaining the mental state of conflict. Foreshadows Jekyll’s death and evokes a feeling of doom.
What is the quote said by Enfield when describing how Hyde attacked a young girl?
(Violence and horror)
‘trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming’.
- oxymoron indicates how he feels no remorse, the act of violence is a habitual event in which later on in the novel, he gains pleasure from the violence, tasted ‘delight from every blow’ as he murdered Carew.
What is the quote when describing Hyde as an embodiment of evil?
(Violence and horror)
‘Satan’s signature upon a face’
- Acts of violence are against innocent people in the novel, provoking horror in the characters around them. Linking to the context of Victorian crimes, a fear that some invisible force was driving evil citizens. The phrase shows how he empitomises everything that citizens feared at the time.
Why does Utterson suffer from nightmares?
The gentlemanly ideal of repressing ones innermost thoughts causes him to have nightmares
- Reputations are not always genuine versions of people - they are just the facades that people try to uphold and show to society.
What is the quote that reflects Utterson’s character?
‘A rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile.’
- represses emotions to appeal to society and expectation of gender roles, thus foreshadohis nightmares.
