Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Quotes and Analysis

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Quotes and Analysis

1. Story of the Door

   • "never lighted by a smile"

2. Search for Mr Hyde

   • "his imagination also was engaged or rather enslaved"
   • it had no face or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes

3. Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease

4. The Carew Murder Case

   • "Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds"
   • "with ape-like fury"
   • "reinvasion of darkness"
   • "She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy"

5. Incident of the Letter

   • "dingy windowless structure"
   • ""

6. Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon

   • "He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face"
   • "His flesh had fallen away"
   • "Lanyon declared himself a doomed man"
   • "spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead"
   • "accursed topic"
   • "I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"

7. Incident at the Window

   • "like some disconsolate prisoner"
   • "an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen"
   • "God forgive us, God forgive us"

8. The Last Night

   • "the streets unusually bare of passengers"
   • "the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing"
   • "the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer"

9. Dr Lanyon's Narrative

10. Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case

    • "I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, ny whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: than man is not truly one, but truly two"
    • "in the agonized womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling"
    • "a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death"
    • "That night I had come to the fatal crossroads"