J+H Quotes

Question 1

Two quotes describing Carew’s murder & about the maid in Ch 4

Answer 1

She always said “never had she felt more at peace with all men” whenever she retold the story

“the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway. At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.”

Question 2

Quote describing the women in Soho in Ch 4

Answer 2

“many women of different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass”

Question 3

Quotes for H’s housekeeper

Answer 3

“An ivory-faced silvery-haired old woman [… with an] evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent”

“a flash of odious joy [at Hyde’s being in trouble]”

Question 4

Quotations for Descriptions of/Reactions to Hyde in Ch 1

Answer 4

• “some damned juggernaut”
• “I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him”

Question 5

Quotations for Utterson’s Descriptions of/Reactions to Hyde in Ch 2

Answer 5

“Satan’s signature upon a face”

Question 6

Quotations for J’s description of H in Ch 10

Answer 6

“the slime of the pit”
“none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp, of lower elements in my soul”

“love of life”

Question 7

Quotes for J’s appearance in Ch 3

Answer 7

“large handsome face”,
“a large, well-made, smooth-faced man”,
“every mark of capacity and kindness”,
“a blackness about his eyes”

Question 8

Quote for front of J’s house

Answer 8

“wore a great air of wealth and comfort”

Question 9

Quotes for J’s backdoor

Answer 9

“a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street”
“blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper”
“bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence”
“blistered and distained”
“schoolboy had tried his knife”

Question 10

Quotes for Soho and colour + simple analysis

Answer 10

“a glow of a rich, lurid brown”,
“brown as umber”,
“A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven”

It is FILTHY! Like the sinful behaviour taking place there

Question 11

Quotes and simple analysis for drug-taking in J+H

Answer 11

• “Well, sir, every day, ay, and twice and thrice in the same day”,
• “This drug is wanted bitter bad, sir, whatever for”: this focusses on the ““evils”” of drug-taking
• “maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer”
• “I knew well that I risked death […] by the least scruple of an overdose”
• “shook the very fortress of identity”: J’s identity isn’t actually a fortress (H) - neither is Utterson’s (doesn’t tell the police about H even though he is literally a lawyer); he withholds evidence from the police!

Question 12

Quotes for friendship

Answer 12

“the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down going men”
“I have buried one friend today […] what if this should cost me another?”
“forever, despised and friendless”
“I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends”

Question 13

Quotes for J’s moral descriptions of himself

Answer 13

“none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp, of lower elements in my soul”
“evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul”
“it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it”

Question 14

Quotes for J’s opinion of H

Answer 14

“his love of life is wonderful […] I find it in my heart to pity him”

Question 15

Quote showing the hypocrisy of middle class men (Ch 1)

Answer 15

“I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him”