Jekyll and Hyde quotes

'A black winter morning'

This is when Mr Enfield saw Mr Hyde trample on the young girl. It creates a dark atmosphere and shows that Mr Hyde is a creature of the darkness

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'"If he shall be Mr Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr Seek"'

Utterson is determined to find Mr Hyde. The play on words reveals the fact that Mr Hyde is hidden and is the first hint at dual nature.

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'There come a blackness about his eyes'

When Mr Utterson talks about Mr Hyde, there is a change in Dr Jekyll. It is a clue that there is something wrong.

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'A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven'

This is a metaphor to describe the city as Mr Utterson and the police go to find Mr Hyde. A pall is a funeral cloth, and it creates an atmosphere of death.

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'Dr Jekyll, looking deadly sickly'

Mr Utterson finally makes contact with Dr Jekyll, and this is the way he is described. It gives the reader a clue that something is wrong and creates a sense of foreboding.

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'Fog slept on the wig above the drowned city'

The imagery of the weather here creates a sense of death.

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'His death warrant written legibly on his face'
'I cannot tell you'

Concerned at a sudden change in Dr Jekyll, Mr Utterson goes to see Dr Lanyon and finds him looking deadly ill. This creates a sense of foreboding, and the reader questions what terrible thing has happened. However, Lanyon is silent and refuses to share an

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'What an *** you must have thought me, not to know this is a back way to Dr Jekyll's'

While Enfield and Utterson are out walking again, we learn that Dr Jekyll’s house is connected to the door in the first chapter. It is a clue which shows the greater connectedness between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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'That masked thing like a monkey'

Poole, one of Jekyll’s servants, comes to see Utterson for help because Dr Jekyll is not coming out of his rooms and there seems to be someone else in there. We know from the description that it is Mr Hyde, and the servants think that he has murdered Dr J

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'Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyll, alive or dead'

Having found the body of Hyde, who appears to have committed suicide, Utterson looks for Jekyll. He discovers he cannot have left the room, but they cannot find a body either. This is a clue for the reader about what happened.

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'My life is shaken to its roots'
'I feel my days are numbered, and that I must die'

After Dr Lanyon learns that the potion turns Hyde into Jekyll, the metaphor in the first quote shows he is very disturbed, so disturbed e will die. We learn for the first time the truth about Jekyll and Hyde.

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'Man is not truly one, but truly two'

This quote shows us that the story has been about dual nature.

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“All human beings. are commingled out of good and evil”

This quote shows us the dual nature of man.

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