The Search for Mr Hyde Flashcards
2 quotes to describe Lanyon’s character
“a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”
“boisterous and decided manner”
A quote to show that Lanyon is reliable, so the reader trusts his judgement
“a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”
Utterson and Lanyon’s friendship was “reposed on genuine feeling”. As the reader already has a trustful relationship with Utterson, in turn the reader would trust Lanyon.
3 quotes to show Hyde is animalistic
“hissing intake of breath”
“snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
“something troglodytic”
3 quotes showing Hyde is inhumane
“pale and dwarfish”
“something troglodytic”
“impression of deformity”
A quote that highlights the duality within Hyde
“murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”
Brief summary of chapter 2
Utterson can’t relax
He opens Jekyll’s will, it makes Hyde the benefactor
He goes to lanyon’s house but finds no answers
Utterson has a dream about Hyde attacking Jekyll
The next day Utterson confronts Hyde
2 quotes showing how Lanyon views Jekyll
“he began to go wrong, wrong in the mind”
“such unscientific balderdash”
A quote where Utterson dismisses Jekyll’s and Lanyon’s feud as insignificant.
“only differed on some point of science”
Utterson’s play on the playground game hide and seek suggests he perceives the hunt for Hyde to be a game.
“if he be Mr Hyde” “I shall be Mr Seek”
Jekyll’s house is amongst…
it’s “furnished with…
“handsome houses”
“furnished with costly cabinets of oak”
What does Utterson say Jekyll’s front room is?
“the pleasantest room in London”
What did Utterson see in the flame of Jekyll’s fireplace?
“read a menace in the flickering of the firelight”
What do all the servants have orders about?
“we have all orders to obey him”
What does Hyde never do at Jekyll’s house?
“he never dines here”
Towards the end of the chapter what does Utterson conclude Hyde must be a consequence of?
“the ghost of some old sin”
