JEKYLL AND HYDE CHARACTER QUOTES

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DR HENRY JEKYLL

"a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty", "handsome face"

"every mark of capacity and kindness"

"[has] sinscere and warm affection", "[holds] plesant dinners"

  • Jekyll is seemingly 'good'

"[answered] with a smile...the smile was struck out of his face"

"the large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips"

"i would trust you... before myself"

  • DUALITY (instantenenous change from a friendly smile to another expression)

"wrong, wrong in mind"

  • his scientific views make him seem mad
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MR EDWARD HYDE

"really like satan", 

"a fiend"

"like  madman"

"hissing",

"snarled"

"savage",

"hoarsley",

"hardly human"

"displeasing smile",

"murderous mixture of timidity and boldness"

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MR GABRIEL JOHN UTTERSON

"Utterson was liked, he was liked well"

"somewho loveable"

"was a man of ruggen countenance", "embarassed in discourse"

  • he was not outspoken but kind natured and likeable

"an approved tolerance for others"

"he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour"

  • rational, strong in his beliefs
  • typical Victorian gentleman
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DR HASTIE LANYON

"a boisterous and decided manner"

"a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman"

"too fanciful for me"

  • traditional viwes
  • sticks strongly to his beliefs

"he has a death warrant written legibly upon his face"

"the rosy man had grown pale"

"deep-seated terror of the mind"

  • anything with which he is unfamiliar discomforts him
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