Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Key Quotations CHAPTER 1

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1 the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood with its freshly painted shutters [and] well polished brasses it [Hyde] was like some damned juggernaut Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Key s CHAPTER 1 I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight There was something wrong with his appearance something downright detestable (Enfield of Hyde) Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again (Utterson) Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind (Lanyon) CHAPTER 2 Satan s signature upon a face the door wore a great air of wealth and comfort the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace

2 [Utterson] was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done [Jekyll was] a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast CHAPTER 3 an ignorant, blatant pedant (says Jekyll of Lanyon) there came a blackness about his eyes CHAPTER 4 The description of Sir Danvers Carew contrasts sharply with that of Mr Hyde. In fact it might be said that at this point the two men represent opposing sides of human nature. Complete the following table using contrasting quotations or examples from the chapter. Sir Danvers Carew Mr Hyde

3 a crime of singular ferocity CHAPTER 4 there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled [Soho was] like a district of some city in a nightmare She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy, but her manners were excellent haunting sense of unexpressed deformity [Jekyll was] looking deadly sick a cold hand a changed voice feverish manner CHAPTER 5 I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again (Jekyll) I have had a lesson O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had! (Jekyll)

4 Much of [Hyde s] past was unearthed CHAPTER 6 a new life began for Dr Jekyll [Lanyon] had his death warrant written legibly upon his face I have had a shock and I shall never recover (Lanyon) that house of voluntary bondage the smile was struck out of [Jekyll s] face and succeeded by an expression of abject terror CHAPTER 7 there was an answering horror in their eyes God forgive us! (Utterson)

5 I want you to hear and I don t want you to be heard (Poole) CHAPTER 8 if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? If it was my master, why did he cry out like a rat and run from me? (Poole) the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching the body of a self destroyer CHAPTER 9 [I] believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man (Lanyon) a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you (Hyde/Jekyll) you who have derided your superiors behold! (Hyde/Jekyll) my soul sickened at it

6 man is not truly one, but truly two. CHAPTER 10 Significance (consider: plot, character, theme, motif, symbolism, I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and awful pressure. Evil had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering. I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep it.