10 Quotes You Need To Learn From Jekyll & Hyde

"O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever i read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend." - Utterson finally meets Hyde , He says it almost as he has been stamped by the devil (not that he reminds him of the devil) that he has satans signature on his face , Utterson suspected something was up but he still remained quiet 

"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go the devil in his own way." - Utterson is inclined to that evil nature - Cain let Abel go to the devil - It foreshadows the text because it is exactly what Utterson does - They ignore eachothers shortcomings

"I felt younger, lighter , happier in body." - Jekyll talking about his transormation to Hyde - Hyde symoblisses sin , our dark and deep desires , negativity and the moment he let them out he felt free , he felt younger - he is a slave to his desires

"All human beings as we meet them, are commingled out  of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil" - If we dont control our duality we will become broken lost shattered people - as human beings we are a mixture of good and bad but the moment we become fully bad that is when you get hyde

"I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin - Hyde is dying to come out - Jekyll remembers how good and free he felt - Religion is being pushed out a bit when religion goes evil comes - Shows the power of Hyde the weakness of Jekyll - The duality of man - Licking the chops even though he knew it was bad he cant help himself it is human nature.

"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also." - It highlights the them of a lot of 19th century texts Don't try to play God and do not mess with God

"With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim inder foot and hailing down a storm of blows under which the bones were audibly shattered." - Ape like fury links to Darwins Theory Hyde is like an unevolved creature he is stuck on the timeline of evoloution - you can hear the bones breaking no human is capable of this this is the work of an animal - by creating Hyde he has went backwards on the line of evoloution 

"The man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground it sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see." - oxymoron - example of desire trampling over an innocent person he is letting his desires run wild.

"The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood like a fire in a forest." - Shows the divide between the rich and the poor - You could tell where the poor and the rich lived - it stuck out like a sore thumb

"I swear to God i will never set eyes on him again. i blind my honour to you that i am done with him in this world. it is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as i do he is safe he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of." - Jekyll promises that he will nevr see Hyde again - Highlights the lack of control he has - Jekyll lost control from the vry beginning - the moment he lied for Hyde he was gone he is a slave to his desires - but at the end he loses control of everything - the moral purpose of this text is do not mess with God because you can not create life