JEKYLL

 Respected , wealthy doctor

 Friend of Lanyon and Utterson.
 Well established in community, and known for decency and charitable works
 Feels supressed by maintain Victorian Gentleman reputation
 Since youth secretly engaged in unspecified wild and corrupt behaviour
 Jekyll finds dark side burden ⸫ undertakes experiments intended to separate good
and evil bringing Mr. Hyde into being, finding a way to transform between the two

KEY QUOTATIONS:

“Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind…
Unscientific Balderdash” (2)

“Wild when he was young” (2)

“A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps,
but every mark of capacity and kindness” (3)

“You could see by his look that he cherished for Mr Utterson a sincere and warm affection”
(3)

“Certain incoherency of manner” (3)

“ he came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their
familiar guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been known for charities, he was
now no less distinguished for religion” (6)

“For more than two months the doctor was at peace” (6)

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also” (6)

“Body of a self-destroyer” (7)

“Like some disconsolate prisoner” (7)

HYDE
 A strange, repugnant man who looks faintly pre-human (ape like)
 violent and cruel
 Everyone who sees describes him as ugly and deformed—yet no one can say exactly
why.
 Jekyll’s dark side
 Goes against Victorian Gentlemen image (emphasised by killing Carew, hurting a
child and his external appearance)

KEY QUOTATIONS:

“It wasn’t like a man; it was some damned juggernaut” (1)

“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground” (1)

“Something down- right detestable” (1)

“Shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath” (2)

“[Hyde had a] murderous mixture of timidity and boldness” (3)

“Ape like fury” (4)

[Described by Lanyon] “Remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great

apparent debility of constitution”
UTTERSON
 Important and honest lawyer, well respected in London community.
 Does want to intervene but he is a lawyer⸫ Offers help too late
 Reserved and dignified
 Loyal to Jekyll
 Victorian Gentleman

KEY QUOTATIONS:

“A man of rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile” (1)

“Was austere with himself” (1)

“I incline to Cain’s heresy with himself…I let my brother go to the devil in his own way” (1)

“The last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in lives of down-going men”
(1)

“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time” (1)

“Came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish”
(2)

Pg. 9 Utterson’s nightmare about Hyde

“Where Utterson was liked he was liked very well” (3)

LANYON
 reputable London scientist
 formerly one of Jekyll’s closest friends
 embodiment of rationalism, materialism, and scepticism
⸫ Lanyon serves a foil (a character whose attitudes or emotions contrast with, and
thereby illuminate, those of another character) for Jekyll, who embraces mysticism
 His death represents general victory of supernaturalism over materialism
 Turns to religion when he sees transformation ⸫ wants to believe in something that is
easy to believe in and gives comfort

KEY QUOTATIONS:

“A hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white,
and a boisterous and decided manner” (2)

“The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it
reposed on genuine feeling” (2)

[Describing Jekyll] “Such unscientific balderdash” (2)

“He had his death-warrant written legibly upon on his face” (6)

“the rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older;
and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer’s
notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-
seated terror of the mind” (6)

“I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away” (6)

“O God!...O God!” (9)

“As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot,
even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror” (9)
ENFIELD
 distant cousin and lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson
 Like Utterson, reserved, formal, and scornful of gossip
 The two men often walk together for long stretches without saying a word to one
another.

SIR DANVERS CAREW &

THE CHILD
 Carew was a well-liked old nobleman, a member of Parliament, and a client of
Utterson who was killed by Hyde
 Both Carew and the child were vulnerable to Hyde
 In the case of Carew there was an investigation going on only because of his high
status but the assault of the child was swept off and hushed with money

POOLE & MR GUEST

 Poole is Jekyll’s butler and long-time loyal servant
 Poole’s concern for his master eventually drives him to seek Utterson’s help when he
becomes convinced that something has happened to Jekyll
 Mr Guest is Utterson’s clerk and confidant and an expert in handwriting.
 Mr Guest’s skill proves useful when Utterson wants him to examine a bit of Hyde’s
handwriting. Guest notices that Hyde’s script is same as Jekyll’s, but slanted the
other way.