Jekyll and Hyde Themes Quotes
"she had an ____ face, _______ by __________: but her manners were _________." - Duality
Answer: evil, smoothed, hypocrisy, excellent
Technique: juxtaposition
Effect: Shows how duality is an intrinsic quality in all people. The good displayed in her ego - the outward appearance and the evil hidden in the id - the inner subconscious voice is all bound within the same person.
"His (Utterson's) past was fairly ________... yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ____ things he had done," - Duality
Answer: blameless, ill
Technique: contrasting conjunction 'yet', juxtaposition
Effect: Even Utterson, the most moral character in the novella has succumbed to his sinful desires in the past. Stevenson conveys that all people possess conflicting personalities.
"the street ______ out in contrast to its ______ neighbourhood..." - Duality
Answer: shone, dingy
Technique: metaphor, juxtaposition
Effect: Shows how Cavendish Square and Soho are adjacent areas of London but are associated with starkly different social classes and activities.
"a really _________ man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very ______ of the ________." - Duality
Answer: damnable, pink, proprieties
Technique: juxtaposition
Effect: Further emphasises how two drastically different personalities can be bound in the same person. Enfield tries to exaggerate the distinction between Jekyll and Hyde, which makes the reveal in the ending even more shocking.
"a great air of ______ and _______" vs. "_____, _________ structure" - Duality
Answer: wealth, comfort, dingy, windowless
Technique: symbolism, juxtaposition
Effect: Jekyll's building is a reflection of his own personality. The fact that the shady laboratory is in the same vicinity as the welcoming and luxurious main building shows how the characters of Jekyll and Hyde co-exist.
“cold, scanty and __________ in discourse.” - Repression
Answer: embarassed
Technique: Triplet
Effect: Shows his stoicism and solemn demeanour. He is the ordinary character in Gothic fiction. He represses his inner thoughts.
"The man trampled ____… something ________." - Repression
Answer: calmly, displeasing
Technique: formal tone
Effect: Enfield restrains his language when describing Hyde's trampled, possibly downplaying the graphic violence. Leads the reader to imagine the event to be worse than what Enfield is letting off. (Stevenson himself was forced to restrain his language to avoid breaking indency laws.)
"Let us make a ______ never to refer to this again." - Repression
Answer: bargain
Technique: modal verb, serious tone
Effect: Enfield is aware of his temptations to gossip, and restrains himself from mentioning Hyde's name again. This keeps the secrets Jekyll harbours in Hude unresolved for longer. Enfield never acts out his suspicions whereas Utterson does. He breaks this promise im Ch7., revealing that he has only been constraining this curiosity.
“He(Utterson) was ______ with himself” - Repression
Answer: austere
Technique: powerful adjective
Effect: Strict moral Christian life, extremely self-disciplined and represses his desires.
"drank ____ to _____ his taste for ______." - Repression
Answer: gin, mortify, vintages
Technique: powerful verb "mortify"
Effect: Always keeps his inner desires in check by denying himself pleasurable things. Utterson embodies the ego having full control over the id.
"ill-contained ___________… broke out of all _______..." - Repression
Answer: impatience, bounds
Technique: assossant and plosive alliteration
Effect: Hyde has no restraint and is completely id-driven. Hyde's outburst of violence is volatile and unprovoked, showing his thirst of violence and depravity.
"It was a _____ ___ night... the streets as clean as a ________ _____; the lamps, _______, by any wind... an ____, ______ footstep drawing near." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: fine dry, ballroom floor, unshaken, odd, light
Technique: pathetic fallacy, simile, juxtaposition
Effect: Tension increases as the order of the night London street is interrupted by the disorder brought by Hyde's prescence. Creates an unsettling atmosphere.
"The other _______ aloud into a _______ laugh... with extraordinary _________... ___________ into the house." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: snarled, savage, quickness, disappeared
Technique: zoormorphism, sibilance
Effect: Animalistic behaviour relfects Hyde's immoral and uncontrollable nature. Sibilance denotes a hidden sinisterness and the adjective "extraordinary" highlights his supernatural force.
"the early part of the night was _________, and the lane... was _____________ lit by the ____ ______." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: cloudless, brilliantly, full moon
Technique: pathetic fallacy
Effect: The dissiaption of fog and a clear sky foreshadows the revelation of truth behind the nature of Hyde. The full moon is a Gothic trope for supernatural transformations, further building anticipation for Hyde's brutality to ensue.
"with _____-_____ fury... hailing down a _____ __ _____." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: ape-like, storm of blows
Technique: zoomorphism, metaphor
Effect: Hyde's outburst of violence is volatile and unprovoked, showing his thirst for violence and depravity. The zoormorphism shines light towards fears of devolution. The metaphor compares Hyde to natural phenomena, highlighting the force and frequency of strikes to be almost superhuman.
"a great _________-coloured _____ lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these ______ vapours." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: chocolate, pall, embattled
Technique: colour/ visual imagery, personifaction/metaphor
Effect: Despite it being "nine in the morning", the thick fog has turned the sky a brownish mess, relfecting on how Hyde's overpowering evil has corrupted the natural environment. Reference to "heaven" creates the idea that God's light no longer shines on Soho. A pall is a funeral cloth, almost as if the area is being buried. The war-like conflict between the fog and the wind is almost apocalyptic/dytopian, emphasising the tumult.
"the ____ began to lie _______; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr Jekyll, looking _______ ____." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: fog, thickly, deathly sick
Technique: pathetic fallacy, adverbs
Effect: The fog symbolises obscurity and the lack of clarity to the truth. The abverb, "thickly" highlights Jekyll's layers of secrecy he protects his dual life behind; and "deathly" emphasises Hyde's power beginning to take control over Jekyll, the first symptoms of a permanent transformation.
"a pale _____, lying on her _____ as though the wind had _______ her, and a flying wrack of the most _____________ and ______ texture." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: moon, back, titled, diaphanous, lawny
Technique: personification, adjectives
Effect: Effeminates the moon as Damsel-like, almost being assualted by the aggressive wind. Adjectives creates tactile and visual imagery of a wispy and delicate fabric, further enhancing the vulnerability of the moon.
"make his (Hyde's) name ____ from one end of London to the other." - Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: stink
Technique: olfactory imagery, hyperbole/metaphor
Effect: Enfield threatens to tarnish Hyde's reputation, revealing how a man's secrets can be used to blackmail him or ruin his reputation.
“the more it looks like ____ Street, the less I ___.” - Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: Queer, ask
Technique: juxtaposition
Effect: Enfield is abiding by the Victorian customs of a gentleman – avoiding the discussion of things that may damage his reputation. He is content with letting others do immoral things on their own in order to guard his reputation, showcasing how the climate of secrecy keeps Jekyll's secrets hidden.
"I was coming home from some place __ ___ ___ __ ___ ______, about three o’clock of a _____ _____ ________.”- Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: at the end of the world, black winter morning
Technique: pathetic fallacy
Effect: Lack of precise location leaves the reader wondring why Enfield chooses to conceal his whereabouts. The time is long past midnight - showcasing how even the most distinguished gentlemen harbour shameful dual lives.
"'I've been _____ for about a week.' returned Poole, ________ly ___________ing the question," - Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: afraid, doggedly disregarding
Technqiue: plosive alliteration
Effect: He doesn't reveal what caused him to be so afraid out of concern that it will harm Jekyll's reputation, showing his unwavering loyalty to his master.
"I am __________ situated, Utterson; my position is a very _______ - a very ________ one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking." - Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: painfully, strange x2
Technique: Caesura, repetition of strange
Effect: Caesura creates an awkward rhythm, emphasising how difficult the situation is for Jekyll, since a society which values reputation so highly causes him to intentionally keep his language incredibly vague. This creates dramatic irony as Utterson interprets this odd wording to be Hyde blackmailing Jekyll .
"I am quite ____ with him (Hyde). I was thinking of my own _________, which this ________ business has rather exposed." - Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: done, character, hateful
Technique: repetition of personal pronoun
Effect: Shows Jekyll is attempting to dissociate himself from Hyde. However, the ambiguity in "hateful business" shows that he is still shielding Hyde to an extent.
"If it came to a ______, your (Jekyll's) name might appear." - Secrecy & Reputation
Answer: trial
Technique: n/a
Effect: Utterson seems more concerned about perseeving Jekyll's repuation than condemning Hyde in a trial. Stevenson's message is that reputations are unreliable to a person's character since it is solely based on how things appear to be.
“Last _________ ________ … last good influence of _______-_____ men." - Friendship
Answer: Reputable acquaintance… down-going
Technique: Repetition of "last", juxtaposition between "reputable" and "down-going"
Effect: Sticks to his friendships, even if their reputation has been damaged. Epitome of a moral, loyal gentleman.
"His (Utterson's) affections, like ____, were the ______ __ _____." - Friendship
Answer: ivy, growth of time
Technique: simile
Effect: Presents Utterson as a character who doesn't make loads of friends but is extremely loyal to each of them. Drives the narrative as he pursues the truth behind his friend Jekyll and the strange and wicked Hyde.
"their Sunday walks... the ____ ____ of each week." - Friendship
Answer: chief jewel
Technique: metaphor
Effect: Utterson feels united to Enfield in these Sunday walks, almost like a ritualistic routine. Sign of their close relationship, one that is treasured not with words, but with action.
"he ____ up from his chair and ________ him with ____ ____." - Friendship
Answer: sprang, welcomed, both hands.
Technique: Powerful verb
Effect: Shows geninue excitement when he sees his old friend Utterson. The added detail, "both hands" gives him a warm and sincere character.
"We are three ____ ___ friends, Lanyon." - Friendship
Answer: old friends
Technique: inclusive pronoun "we"
Effect: Utterson acts as the unbiased mediator between the two, trying to repair the turmoil of caused by past disagreements.
"would have estranged _____ and ______." - Friendship
Answer: Damon and Pythias
Technique: Allusion
Effect: Lanyon accuses Jekyll of breaking the Hippocratic Oath - only using a doctor's knowledge to protect others. Lanyon sees Jekyll's experiment as wild and unscientific - to him Jekyll had betrayed his loyalty in their friendship as well as his integrity in the field of medicine.
"and I beg that you will ______ me of any ________ to whom I regard as ______." - Friendship
Answer: spare, allusion, dead
Technique: direct address, desparate tone
Effect: "spare" implies that even the mentioning of Jekyll brings trauma to Lanyon. Lanyon firmly renounces Jekyll; the word "dead" reveals how their relationship is beyond repair.
"I felt _____ to do as he ________." - Friendship
Answer: bound, requested
Technique: powerful verb "bound"
Effect: Despite their differences in science, Lanyon still values Jekyll companionship and feels compelled to help Jekyll as a friend. Shows Lanyon's faith in Jekyll has not yet died down.
"Insensibly the lawyer _________. There was no man from whom he kept fewer ________ than Mr Guest." - Friendship
Answer: melted, secrets
Technique: metaphor, comparatives
Effect: Shows Utterson's reliance on Guest to be an opinion of rationale. Utterson pours his struggles to Guest, letting of the undemonstrative and unchanging demanour he usually puts on. This magnifies the intimacy and transparency of their relationship.
"I shall consider it my ___ to ____ in that door" - Friendship
Answer: duty, break
Technique: zoom in on word "duty"
Effect: Highlights his moral inclination as well as his responsibility as Jekyll's good friend to save Jekyll from Hyde, unlike someone like Enfield who shies away.
"Jekyll... I ______ to see you... if not by _____ means then by ____ - if not of your _______, then by _____ ______!" - Good vs Evil (Violence too)
Answer: demand, fair, foul, consent, brute force
Technique: anaphora, imperatives, juxtaposition
Effect: Shows his unwavering determination to save his friend, like a moral obligation. Utterson, the most moral character in the novella, must resort to foul tactic in order to confront the evil which is hidden in Jekyll's laboratory.
"a certain ______ block of building _______ forward its gable on the street... no window... nothing but a door on the lower storey..." - Good vs Evil
Answer: sinister, thrust
Technique: personification, indefinite articles
Effect: Shows how Hyde's house is uglier and worn out than the rest of the street. "Thrust" also reflects Hyde's aggressive and violent nature. Hyde is singularly evil, id-driven whereas the others are a blend of good and evil.
"marks of _________ and _________ negligence. The door, whcih equipped with neither ____ nor _________, was __________ and ___________." - Good vs Evil.
Answer: prolonged, sordid, bell, knocker, blistered, disdained
Technique: strong adjectives, vivid imagery
Effect: Hyde does not care about his house's appearance - reflects his disregard for social restraints. He is also not expecting any guests, the words "blistered" and "disdained" having connatations to illness.
"a kind of ______, _________ coolness... really, like ______." - Good vs Evil
Answer: black, sneering, Satan
Technique: Religious/hellish imagery
Effect: Hyde is the physical manifestation of evil, lacking all morals and remorse.
"so ____ that it brought out the sweat on me like _______... turn ____ and ___ with the desire to ___ him" - Good vs Evil
Answer: ugly, running, sick, white, kill
Technique: Hyperbole, simile
Effect: Hyde's evil presence is so overbearing it creates a sense of revulsion and antipathy towards him.
"the older man _____ and ______ the other with a very pretty manner of ___________." - Good vs Evil
Answer: bowed, accosted, politeness
Technique: lexical field of innocence
Effect: Emphasises the vulnerability of Carew, a stark contrast to the depravity and destructiveness of Hyde's violence.
"a copy of _____ work, for which Jekyll has several times expressed a great _____, annotated, in his own hand, with ______ _________." - Good vs Evil
Answer: pious, esteem, startling blasphemies
Technique: Juxtaposition
Effect: It can be assumed that Hyde has desecrated Jekyll's prized religious texts. Shows Hyde's growing power over Jekyll and the blending of the two personalities in their behaviour mirroring each other.
"damned ____________" - Violence
Answer: Juggernaut
Technique: Vivid imagery, allusion to Krishna
Effect: Hyde's impulses are destructive and
like an unstoppable force.
"with the air of one very much surprised and a _____ ____." - Violence
Answer: trifle hurt
Technique: powerful verb "surprised", emotive language "trifle"
Effect: Emphasises how the violence was unadultared and unprovoked. Carew is simply a plot device to make Hyde's character appear more formidable.
"murderous _____ of timidity and ______" - Good vs Evil
Answer: mixture, boldness
Technique: oxymoron
Effect: Hyde makes Utterson feel conflicting emotions, almost playing with his morality. Hyde's tendency to resort to violence is instrintic to his character, even triggering the same reactions in others
"He came out of his ________, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guests and entertainer." - Good vs Evil
Answer: seclusion
Technique: Complex Sentence
Effect: Jekyll represents the ego - man's moral thoughts in balance with instinctive desires. When Hyde goes away after Carew's murder, Jekyll returns to the sociable, respectable and charitable man he is.
"great _____ of anger" - Violence
Answer: flame
Technique: metaphor
Effect: Shows the volatility of Hyde's character: he destroys until all the rage inside him is fully exhausted.
"the bones were __________ ____________ and body jumped upon the broadway... incredibly ________." - Violence
Answer: audibly shattered, mangled
Technique: Auditiry and visual imagery
Effect: Hyde targets the most vulnerable members in society, showing his sadistic and wicked nature. He also attacks people in the most brutal, callous way.
"There is an ___ in the theatre... and you might take the ______ ______ for yourself." - Violence
Answer: Axe, kitchen poker
Technique: nouns of weapons
Effect: The weapons chosen are rudimentary and violent; it would have much more expected for the lower classes to wield such a rude weapon. Reflects the blunt obtrusion that is the climax of the story - breaking the door. Could also be breaking Jekyll's layers of secrecy as well as the class structure, since it was through the collaboration of lawyer, butler and servants that finally brought the inaction of the upper classes to an end.
"London was ________ by a crime of singular ________ and rendered all the more notable by the ____ _________ of the victim." - Violence
Answer: startled, ferocity, high position
Technique: personification
Effect: Carew is an MP, so his murder is even more shocking and impactful to the population of Greater London. The word "victim" conveys theme of a murder mystery, like a 'shilling shocker'. The "high position" reflects how Hyde disregards social hierarchy and authority.
“approved _______ for others" - Justice
Answer: tolerance
Technique: word "tolerance"
Effect: Utterson is non-judgemental – even when people do nefarious things he doesn't agree with them he doesn’t push them away. Instead he tries to be a good infuence and help them break out of their evil habits.
"In case of Dr Jekyll's 'disappearance or unexplained ______ for any period exceeding ____ ________ _____,' the said Edward Hyde should _____ into the said Henry Jekyll's ____ shoes..." - Justice
Answer: absence, three calendar months, step, shoes
Technique: Sibilance, epistolary form
Effect: Directly quoting Jekyll's will shows the seriousness and weight carried by the odd statement. The sibilance has sinister undertones, implying the Utterson is offended that such a wicked person like Hyde can be entrusted the successor of Jekyll.
"all sorts and conditions of men: map-engravers, architects, _____ lawyers, and the agents of _____ enterprises." - Justice
Answer: shady, obscure
Technique: listing, oxymoron
Effect: Exposes the immorality of the prolieriatat class. Utterson and Jekyll are inversions of societal expectations as scientists were expected to be trustworthy and lawyers deceitful, making the final few chapters even more shocking.
"I can't pretend I shall ____ _____ ___." - Justice
Answer: ever like him
Technique: declarative, modal verb
Effect: Utterson feels close enough to Jekyll to candidly, blatantky expressive his disapproval of Hyde. He believes that Hyde will not do Jekyll's legacy justice.
"his eye ________ up with professional _______. 'This will make a great deal of _______.'" - Justice
Answer: lighted, ambition, noise
Technique: metaphor, direct speech
Effect: Reflects the officer's desire the gain reputation by solving the Carew Murder Case rather than delivering justice to the victim's family.
"a ____ street, a ____ palace... _____ of different nationalities passing out, key in hand... blackguardly surroundings... Henry Jekyll's favourite... heir to a ______ of a million sterling." - Justice
Answer: dingy, gin, palace, quarter
Technique: listing, long complex sentence, statistic
Effect: A depiction of Soho as an area of poverty, drunkedness and prostitution yet Edward Hyde, who likely particiaptes in similarly seedy acts, is the benefactor of a huge sum of wealth. Magnifies the injustice Utterson feels.
"You must ____ me to go my own ____ way." - Justice
Answer: suffer, dark
Technique: Modal verb, religious imagery
Effect: Jekyll goes into seclusion, as if he has committed an unforgivable sin. It could be seen that Jekyll and Hyde are allusions to Abel and Cain - Good and Evil.
"the thin ____ in the garden were _______ ___________ along the railing." - Nature & the Supernatural
Answer: trees, lashing themselves
Technique: personification
Effect: Self-fladulation, the trees are inflciting corporal punishement towards themselves, as if they must repent to God. It could be seen that they are doing this to atone for Jekyll's sins.
"He began to go ______, _______ __ ______." - Science & Religion
Answer: wrong, wrong in mind
Technique: Repetiton of 'wrong'
Effect: Blunt and blatant rejection of Jekyll's metaphysical form of science. Lanyon is stubborn on the fact that Jekyll has strayed away from the concrete disciplines of science. Lanyon is a man of material and tangible science.
"such u__________ b_______." - Science & Religion
Answer: unscientific balderdash
Technique: insult
Effect: Lanyon harshly comments on Jekyll's lack of rigor and principles when conduct experiments; labelling them to be absurd. Lanyon is portrayed to have a strong moral compass and a foil to Jekyll in the scientific regard.
"my scientific _______." - Science & Religion
Answer: heresies
Technique: n/a
Effect: Jekyll represents the encroachment of science into Christian Victorian society. His experiments could be seen as immoral.
"Henry Jekyll became too _________ for me." - Science & Religion
Answer: fanciful
Technique: adjective
Effect: Lanyon sees Jekyll's form of science as too imaginative and too mystical. Dangers of the misuse of science.
"I have had a _______ - O God, Utterson, what a _____ I have had!" - Science & Religion
Answer: lesson
Technique: Repetition
Effect: Jekyll now feels guilty of murdering Hude but also distraught since he cannot roam freely as Hyde anymore. Like an addict who has first realised their addiction. Ironically, he cries to God for mercy when he is desparate when his experiments have resulted in the creation of the 'calamity' that is Hyde - playing God.
"my devil" - Science & Religion
Hyde is frequently comapred to Satan. In Hyde's body Jekyll feels lighter and younger since he can freely exact his darkest desires without consequence.
“dry ______... soberly and _______” - Science and Religion
Answer: divinity, gratefully
Technique: plosives and abverbs
Effect: Utterson respects his Sunday evenings, keeping them simple but never giving into temptation. Utterson keeps his core Christian values, whereas Jekyll has a turbulent relationship with religion.
"troglodytic" - Science & Religion, Fear/Terror
Technique: powerful adjective
Effect: Hyde embodies the Victorian fears of devolution.
"He is not easy to _____. There is something _____ with his appearance; something _________, something __________ _________." - Fear/Terror
Answer: describe, wrong, displeasing, downright detestable
Technique: anaphora/repetition of 'something', plosive alliteration
Effect: Strong 'd' plosives magnify the fear and disgust Hyde evokes in others; the repetition of 'something' suggests that Hyde's evil is intangible, engrained into his existence itself. Other characters and we, the readers cannot grasp what about him is so unnerving, adding to the Gothic trope.
"he gives a strong feeling of ________." - Fear/Terror, Science & Religion
Answer: deformity
Technique: zoom in on the word
Effect: Hyde is described to be hardly human, but none of the character can pick out what exactly seems out of order. Uncanny appearance, playing on the idea of devolution.
"The figure… _______ the lawyer all night” - Fear/Terror
Answer: haunted
Technique: metaphor
Effect: Utterson’s dream reveals his greatest fear – that Hyde seized full control over Jekyll through his ‘blackmailing’. This dream foreshadows the end, where Hyde has grew into the dominant half of Jekyll.
"And stil the figure had __ ____ by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had __ ____," - Fear/Terror
Answer: no face
Technique: repetiton
Effect: Hyde's facial features are left ambiguous for the reader to imagine their worst fears in Hyde's appearance, increasing the terror.
"The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew ____ to the very lips, and there came a __________ about his eyes." - Fear/Terror
Answer: pale, blackness
Technique: visual imagery, Gothic
Effect: Upon the mention of Hyde, Jekyll's agitation causes a brief glimpse of Hyde to appear on his face.
"But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was ____ out of his face... such abject ____ and _____, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below." - Fear/Terror
Answer: struck, terror, despair
Technique: aggressive verb, powerful adjectives
Effect: Jekyll involuntarily transfigures into Hyde, showing the growing fluidity of their identites. Jekyll is gradually losing control of Hyde. Although Utterson and Enfield only caught a glimpse, in was enough to petrify them.