Jekyll and Hyde learn Flashcards
This description of Utterson introduces a stereotypical 19th Century British gentleman - private and unemotional with a reserved personality
Chapter 1
“Cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow loveable.”
We have the first depiction of Hyde’s evil nature, and Stevenson deliberately inflicts it on a child to increase the reader’s fear of Hydes character
Chapter 1
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming”
“it was like some damned Juggernaut”
Utterson contrasts with Jekyll, as he rigidly sticks to structure, order and rationality, maintaining a routine and socially acceptable lifestyle
Chapter 2
“A volume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed”
Hyde gave…
Chapter 2
“an impression of deformity”
Jekyll’s cheerful and pleasant demeanour rapidly disappears when he is questioned about his will - the change from good to evil is disturbingly quick.
Chapter 3
“the large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes”
Brutal, animalistic violence and evil fill this image - the almost inhuman destruction of another human life highlights the power of evil
Chapter 4
“The next moment”
“with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered”
Stevenson describes the setting as…
Chapter 4
a “chocolate pall, lowered over heaven”
Jekyll inhabits a highly scientific environment, rejecting the simple pleasures of the old garden - he prefers the appeal of chemistry to the natural world
Chapter 5
“A yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting-rooms”
“his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical”
The reader is graphically shown the transformation of Lanyon and the physical deterioration of his person when he discovers Jekyll’s secret
Chapter 6
“He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away.”
Jekyll no longer controls Hyde’s appearances, and Jekyll’s sudden transformation causes extreme physical reactions from Utterson and Enfield.
Chapter 7
“The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair”
“froze the very blood of the two gentlemen”
Science and religion clash in a destructive manner - Hyde is animalistic, surrounded by science, and Poole turns to religion to make sense of it.
Chapter 8
“When that masked like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet, it went down my spine like ice…I give you my bible-word it was Mr Hyde!”
Jekyll is often seen as a character who embraces science, which is dangerous enough - here we see an explicit, blasphemous rejection of religion
Chapter 8
“One lay beside the tea things open”
“Utterson was amazed to find…a copy of a pious work”
“Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.”
Lanyon’s description of what he finds in Jekyll’s private cabinet is disturbing - Lanyon cannot make sense of it, and it is depicted as clearly dangerous
Chapter 9
“The phial…half full of blood-red liquor”
“was highly pungent”
“seemed” to contain “phosphorous and some volatile ether.”
Lanyon struggles to articulate exactly what Hyde is - even standing in front of him, the description is clearly not human
Chapter 9
“something abnormal and misbegotten” about
“the creature that now faced me - something seizing, surprising and revolting”
The level of disbelief in the supernatural events before him, and the evil he is witnessing, lead Lanyon to desperately call out to God to protect him.
Chapter 9
“ ‘O God!’ I screamed, and ‘O God!’ again and again.”
