JEKYLL AND HYDE QUOTES

"smooth-faced man of fifty", "sly-ish cast" - sibilance (hissing of the 's' sound)

"large handsome face... grew pale", "blackness about his eyes" - semantic field of death and evil

"looking deathly sick", "held out a cold hand" - Hyde is plaguing his body

"the moment i chose i can be rid of Mr Hyde" - repeated personal pronoun 'i' implies control, ironic because in reality he has no control

"infinite sadness of mine, like some disconsolate prisoner" - his body is a prison, simile

"weeping like a woman or a lost soul" - context, women in Victorian society

"man is not truly one but truly two", "radically both" - apperance versus reality

"my clothes hung formlessley on my shrunken limbs" - defying a smartly dressed society

"my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring" - repression

"like some damned juggernaut"

"pale and dwarfish" , "displeasing smile"- not highly evolved, animalistic

"an imprint of deformity and decay", "really like Satan" - alliteration emphasises disgust

"he broke out in a great flame of anger", "like a madman" - man's evil nature

"ape-like fury" - freudian psychology, the Id (uncivilised, primal desires)

"only used a few rooms but they were furished with luxury and good taste" - crimes can be committed by even the most upper-class of people (Jack the Ripper)

"the thorough and primitive duality of man"

"rugged countenance" - unemotional, keeps to himself

"lean, long, dusty, dreary yet somehow loveable " - asyndetic list suggests his old and worn characteristics are endless but he can be confided in

"drank gin when he was alone to moritfy a taste for vintages" - suppressing his desires like a Victorian gentleman

"the cancer of some concealed disgrace" - the more you surpress things the more that they grow, links to how Hyde eventually taked over Jekyll

"he began to go wrong, wrong in mind" - people believed science was being taken too far

"i have sen devilish little of the man. such unscientific balderdash" - sibilance links to Jekyll's 'sly-ish cast'

"i saw what i saw, i heard what i heard and my soul sickened at it" - seeing Jekyll's experiments affected Lanyon so deeply he died, repettition further emphasises his shock

ENFIELD - "he must be deformed somewhere, he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although i couldnt specify the point" - repettition shows his certainty about Hyde being an unnatrual being

"i am ashamed of my long tounge" - gentlemen shouldn't gossip

GUEST - "not mad; but it is an odd hand" - confirms that jekyll is not mad, bringing to light that having two sides is not unordinary

CAREW - "seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition" - innocence makes his murder by Hyde even more shocking

REPUTATION

DUALITY + GOOD VERSUS EVIL

SCIENCE, SUPERNATURAL AND RELIGION

REPRESSION

JEKYLL AND HYDE QUOTES