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Hyde's Quotes

Chapter 1

"one a little man"

  • Playing with victorian expectations

"stumping along eastwards"

  • Stumping - walking irreguarly, stiffly, sense of deformity
  • Eastwards is a biblical allusion referring to the East of Eden, land of sinners

"the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but hellish to see"

  • Oxymoron of trampling calmly gives thde impression of Hyde finding it easy to disregard human life painting him as merciless and emotionless
  • Screaming emphaises on the pain that Hyde inflicted on her
  • Juxtaposition of nothing to hear, regarding it as unimportant and hellish to see invoking a visceral reaction due to human nature

"it wasn't like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut"

  • Use of the pronoun, 'it' suggests Hyde as non-human, foreign or unnatural
  • Juggernaut shows something powerful, indestructible and reckless

"one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running"

  • Ugly is connoting to evil
  • Hyde has an intimidating look that is so intimidating it makes a person nervous

"I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight"

  • The sight of Hyde is so detestable it invokes a visceral reaction right away

"the man... with a kind of black sneering coldness - frightened too"

  • Hyde takes a mocking attitude to the men, disregarding them, emotionless for he had done
  • However when his reputation is threatened, he becomes frightened

"really like Satan"

  • Hyde is compared to devil, evil

"something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something detestable"

  • Hyde is regarding as inhuman with the repetition of 'something'
  • Hyde as usually invokes a visceral reaction to people who lay sight on him, described as disgusting

Chapter 2

"It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with destestable attributes; out of the shifting, insubstanial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend"

  • Figurative language connotes to a image of a monster
  • Mists - symbolic to reflect about the mystery of the plot and about Hyde

"odd light footsteps"

  • Hyde is degenerated, underdeveloped, deformed

"Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of breath"

  • Zoomorphism relating to a snake
    • This relates to the Bible in revelations where a great dragon, a serpent, was cast out dubbed the Devil or Satan as the Great Deceiver

"the other snarled aloud into a savage laugh"

  • Zoomorphism - snarled is an aggressive growl similar to an angry voice
  • Savage - derived from a word for native people, relates to the fear of the unknown

"with extraordinary quickness"

  • Supernatural

"[Utterson] putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity"

  • Hyde has an unsettling nature that Utterson had to contemplate about it
  • Simile: Utterson contrasts his character from before from being calm and collected to being puzzled

"he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation"

  • Hyde physically doesn't seem deformed
  • Hyde could be deformed somewhere else such as mentally
  • Hyde could be too perplexing for one to analyse

"muderous mixture of timidity and boldness"

  • Oxymoron and paradoxical, timidity and boldness - presents Hyde as unpredictable and dangerous in the word "murderous"

"unknown disgust, loathing and fear"

  • Triple: Hyde cannot be explained, something supernatural and people get this feeling around Hyde, a sense of "deformity"

"something troglodytic"

  • Troglodytic - early human, Darwin's theory suggests underdevelopment and deformity

"foul soul that thus transpires through"

  • Feeling of degeneracy

"I read Satan's signature upon a face"

  • Parallels Hyde and the Devil, they are the same in comparable qualities - Hyde is associated with evil

Chapter 4

"Hyde... for whom she had conceived a dislike"

  • Hyde's presence imposes on who sees him a feeling of prejudice to dislike him as his presence is "evil"

"but he answered never a word"

  • Hyde's silence suggests that the attack on Carew was thought out without a good argument or reason for why he attacks him, pure evil

"seemed to listen with an ill-contained impatience"

  • Hyde's impaitence with others is barely contained, he fails to hide it and lets it slip out
  • Opposite to a Victorian gentleman, who is supposed to be paitent and polite

"[Hyde] broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot"

  • A metaphor describing his anger
    • Described as a flame linking to Hell, Hell's flame is inextinguishable (eternal) relating to Hyde's anger, it cannot be stopped, indestructible
  • Stamping the verb enhances to visciousness of Hyde's attack aswell the attack being vindictive, no reason for it to be happening, Hyde is just evil

"like a madman"

  • Hyde's behaviour has changed to a violent, insane lunatic

"[Hyde] broke all bounds and clubbed him to the earth"

  • Hyde rejecting the Victorian gentlemen expectations completely, pure evil is acting
  • Clubbed the verb enhances the visciousness of Hyde's attack

"with ape-like fury"

  • Zoomorphism - compared to an ape, underdeveloped human, linking to Darwinism showing the attack to be without reason and pure evil

"[Hyde] was trampling his victim under foot and hailing a storm of blows"

  • The verbs trampling and hailing enhances the visciousness of his attack

"under which the bones were audibly shattered"

  • The onomatopoeia can be imagined by the reader which enhances the visciousness of the attack

"his victim... incredibly mangled"

  • This enhances the visciousness of the attack, depicting Carew as prey that Hyde had hunted on - animalistic, Hyde is a predator

"insensate cruelty"

  • The attack was without reason, Hyde did this attack under pure evil

"A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman's face"

  • Hyde is disliked by many of whom see him

Chapter 5

"The man... was mad"

  • Uncontrollable, unpredictable as seen in Utterson's encounter with Hyde in this quote

Chapter 6

"Much of his past was unearthed"

  • Unearthed relates to secrecy

"all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty... so callous and violent"

  • The stories about Hyde's deeds are all regarded as unacceptable
  • The acts he had done are cruel, insensitive and violent to others

Chapter 8

"the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching"

  • Imagery of horror and agony

"He was dressed in clothes far too large for him"

  • Clues, foreshadowing to Hyde's identity reveal

"body of a selfdestroyer"

  • selfdestroyer is suicide, a sin
    • Some softened up in their attitudes to suicide at the time

Chapter 9

"volatile"

  • Relates to his temper - short lived

"a small man crouching against a pillar"

  • Animalistic - ready to pounce

"I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution"

  • Disturbed by Hyde's appearance, a common occurence

"the waist of his coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his collar"

  • Clues to Hyde's identity, same clothes as Jekyll in Chapter 8

"there was something abnormal and misbegotten"

  • Victorian anxiety of the "other"
  • Hyde is inhuman

"the creature"

  • Zoomorphism

"something seizing, suprising and revolting"

  • Sibilance - usually used when describing Hyde

"My visitor was, indeed on fire with sombre excitement"

  • Hyde's desperation, reflecting Jekyll's letter
  • Fire has connotations of danger

"a certain icy pang along my blood"

  • Replusion Hyde invokes into others whom witness him

"my impaitence has shown its heels to my politeness"

  • Juxtaposing words, foreshadowing Hyde's identity reveal

"Will you be wise? Will you be guided?"

  • Arrogance displayed by Hyde
  • Jekyll's contempt for Lanyon being conventional instead of exploring ideas leaks into Hyde's personality

"or the has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?"

  • Biblical language
    • Danger of curiosity
    • Sin of temptation

"he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on"

  • Visual description used to create imagery of pain and horror

Chapter 10

"drinking pleasure... from any degree of torture to another"

  • Sadistic