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Jekyll and Hyde Quote Bank

This document contains quotes from Jekyll and Hyde grouped into themes such as Gothic, duality, physical appearance, gentlemanly reputation, and setting. It explores contrasts between Jekyll and Hyde, such as their physical appearances, the company they keep, and the doors to their homes. It also examines themes of uncertainty, secrecy, and the importance of reputation to Victorian gentlemen. Utterson is analyzed as a bridge between classes who values reputation and avoiding disreputable company. The setting of cramped housing in London is also summarized.

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Jekyll and Hyde Quote Bank

This document contains quotes from Jekyll and Hyde grouped into themes such as Gothic, duality, physical appearance, gentlemanly reputation, and setting. It explores contrasts between Jekyll and Hyde, such as their physical appearances, the company they keep, and the doors to their homes. It also examines themes of uncertainty, secrecy, and the importance of reputation to Victorian gentlemen. Utterson is analyzed as a bridge between classes who values reputation and avoiding disreputable company. The setting of cramped housing in London is also summarized.

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Jekyll and Hyde quote bank

Page number, quote, analysis/context


Gothic:
P7-‘begins to long for the sight of a policeman’-crime, danger, need for security on the
streets
P7-‘empty as a church’-simile, doesn’t seem right as a church should be full, On the Origin of
the Species/Darwin context, lack of hope
P13-‘mysterious things’, ‘mystery’-secrecy, uncertainty, genre
P9-‘Hyde’-homophone, secrecy, retention of information
P9-‘not so sure’ (referring to which house the chimney comes from)-uncertainty, lack of
information, mystery-links to different people being narrators like interviews
P6-‘blistered and distained’-uncared for, dirty
P7-‘trampled calmly’-disturbing behaviour, oxymoronic, ungentlemanly
Duality-split into pairs by colour:
The company Hyde/Jekyll keep:
P6-‘tramps’
P18-’all intelligent, reputable men’-difference in company they keep-always keep in good
company-gentlemanly etiquette. Utterson’s company
Hyde/Jekyll’s physical appearance:
P15-‘deformity’, ‘pale and dwarfish’, ‘like Satan’
P18-’large, well made, smooth face man’-physiognomy-very important to people at the
time, and a “bad” physiognomy would have been very shocking/noticeable to people,
contrast between Hyde and Jekyll
Appearance of the doors of Hyde/Jekyll:
P6-‘blistered and distained’
P16-’great air of wealth and comfort’-class difference between doors of Jekyll and Hyde-link
to AO3 about Victorian London
Hyde trampling the girl-both Hyde’s and Jekyll’s side of the act:
P7-‘calmly’-almost oxymoronic with ‘trampled’, shows Jekyll’s part in Hyde
P7-’Juggernaut’-Jekyll’s side vs Hyde’s side. Also Hyde not resisting attempts to get him after
trampling girl. Juggernaut almost suggests anger-Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms-
‘never show anger in public’
Appearance of Hyde/Jekyll, but with respect to size:
P15-‘dwarfish’, ‘stumping’
P18-’large’ (referring to Jekyll)-two contrasting sides of Jekyll/Hyde is highlighted by the
huge contrast, troglodytic-Hyde is like one step back in evolution, dwarf suggests
supernatural/sub-human
P5-‘lean, long, dusty, dreary and somehow lovable’-uncanny, alliteration, Utterson’s
contrasting nature, long list, ‘somehow’ suggests out of reach
Utterson:
P5-‘down-going men’-Class difference, associates with lower classes, contrast with below.
Hill’s Manual of Business and Social Forms-‘never associate with bad company’
P18-‘all intelligent, reputable men’-Bridge between classes, Utterson trying to live up to
higher class, contrast with above
P9-‘that’s a good rule of yours’-Utterson wants to be like Enfield/isn’t as gentlemanly, looks
up to him somewhat
P5-‘enjoyed the theatre, but not crossed the doors’-doesn’t like pleasures, reserved, ‘rugged
countenance’
P9-‘he inquired’-curious, inquisitive, eager to learn more-contrasts with more ‘austere’,
reserved side of him. Links to mystery genre, gothic
P5-‘never lighted by a smile’-doesn’t enjoy pleasures, reserved. Never lighted=darkness
P5-‘last good influence’-ultimately a good man, gentlemanly, helpful
Setting and London:
P6-‘sinister block of housing’-packed together, imposing (‘thrust forward’-personification) ,
uninviting, ugly
P6-‘Tramps slouched into the recess’-dirty, poverty, class difference between tramps and
judges of fine wine
P9-‘so packed together’-uncertainty about whose house is whose, compressed,
uncomfortable, cramped
P11-‘Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine’-like a tower or fortress, metaphor, wealthy
area, shows progress of science (AO3)
P16-‘ancient, handsome houses’-more wealthy, affluent area, tradition, beauty, history-
specifically contrasts with Hyde’s ugly front door
Gentleman and Reputation:
P18-‘all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine’-shows your high class if you
have education and drink wine.
P5-Utterson associates with ‘down-going men’-not in keeping with ‘never associate with
bad company’
P9-Afraid to be unorthodox-‘weight of consideration’ before Utterson ‘[inquires]’
P8-Reputation is vital-‘blackmail’, Jekyll tries to cover up about the will
P17-‘Jack-in-the-box of some old iniquity’-see above-gentlemen are afraid of past acts
coming back to haunt them, and specifically hurt their reputation
P7-‘it wasn’t like a man’-neuter pronoun depersonalises, shows how Hyde is the antithesis
of a gentleman
Physical Appearance:
P9-‘strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point’-ugliness, physiognomy,
uncanny
P15-‘pale and dwarfish’-contrast with Jekyll, physiognomy, troglodyte-‘troglodytic’ later in
novella
P18-‘large, well-made, smooth-faced man’ (Jekyll) -physiognomy, contrast with Hyde. ‘well-
made’ is off-putting-suggests something unnatural
P7-‘so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running’-simile, hyperbole (?),
deformity, physiognomy
P7-‘like Satan’-Christian belief, contrast with other characters i.e. ‘God Bless Me’ (Utterson),
simile
P16-‘Satan’s signature’-Dr. Faustus, repetition of above, metaphor
P5-‘rugged countenance’-rough, abrasive connotations

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