Jekyll and Hyde: themes + quotes
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- Created on: 21-04-19 11:44
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- Jekyll and Hyde
- GOOD VS EVIL
- "last good influence in the lives of downgoing men" (Utterson's description)
- "housed in seperate identities" (Jekyll)
- "two characters as well as two appearance" "one was wholly evil" "other was still the old Henry Jekyll" (Jekyll)
- FRIENDSHIP
- "sprang up" and "welcomed him with both hands" (Mr Utterson and Dr Lanyon
- "wrong, wrong in mind" (Lanyon about Jekyll)
- "sincere and warm affection" Jekyll about Utterson
- REPRESSION
- "My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring" (Jekyll)
- "my virtue slumbered; my evil kept awake by ambition." / "projected Edward Hyde"(Jekyll's confession)
- "drank gin when he was alone to mortify the taste for vintages" (Utterson)
- VIOLENCE
- "the man trampled calmly over the child's body (chapter 1)
- "with ape like fury" (Hyde killing Sir Danvers Carew)
- "grinding in the bones" / "horror of the spirit" (jekyll's confession)
- RELIGION
- "I read Satan's signature upon a face" (Utterson about Hyde)
- "fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God" (Dr Jekyll)
- "my devil had been long caged"
- SCIENCE VS NATURE
- "like a man restored from death" (Lanyon's letter about transformation)
- "body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching"
- the discovery "at last overcame the suggestions of alarm"
- DUALITY OF HUMAN NATURE
- "I was radically both" (Jekyll's confession)
- "commingled out of good and evil" (Jekyll's confession)
- "man is not truly one, but truly two"
- GOOD VS EVIL
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