Quotation Bank: ‘the Strange CaSe of Dr Jekyll anD Mr hyDe’
Chapter 1 Chapter 2
1. ‘something eminently
human beaconed in his
eye’
2. ‘he was austere with
himself’
3. ‘I incline to Cain’s
heresy’
4. ‘trampled calmly… like
some damned
juggernaut’
5. ‘it was hellish to see’
6. ‘loathing… at first sight’
7. ‘something wrong with
his appearance,
something displeasing,
something downright
detestable’
Chapter 6 Chapter 7
1. ‘his face seemed to
open and brighten’
2. ‘He had his death-
warrant written legibly
upon his face’
3. ‘The rosy man had
grown pale; his flesh
had fallen away’
4. ‘If I am the chief of
sinners, I am the chief
of sufferers also’
5. ‘professional honour
and faith to his dead
friend were stringent
obligations’
Chapter 3
1. ‘healthy, hearty, 1. ‘a large well-made
dapper, red-faced smooth-faced man of
gentleman’ fifty’
2. ‘unscientific 2. ‘every mark of capacity
balderdash’ and kindness’
3. ‘inordinate curiosity’ 3. ‘scientific heresies’
4. ‘murderous mixture of 4. ‘Dr Jekyll grew pale’
timidity and boldness’ 5. ‘painfully situated’
5. ‘pale and dwarfish’ 6. ‘the moment I choose, I
6. ‘something troglodytic’ can be rid of Mr Hyde’
7. ‘I read Satan’s
signature upon a face’
Chapter 8
1. ‘premature twilight’ 1. ‘foul play!’
2. ‘disconsolate prisoner’ 2. ‘a wild cold seasonable
3. ‘an expression of such night’
abject terror and 3. ‘strangling anguish’
despair as froze the 4. ‘guarded manner’
very blood of the two 5. ‘servants…stood
gentlemen below’ huddled together like a
flock of sheep’
6. ‘hair stood… like quills’
7. ‘cry out like a rat’
8. ‘like a monkey jumped’
9. ‘Weeping like a woman
or a lost soul’
10. ‘a man sorely contorted
and still twitching’
Chapter 4 Chapter 5
1. ‘a fog rolled over the 1. ‘dingy, windowless
city’ structure’
2. ‘an aged and beautiful 2. ‘cheval-glass’
gentleman with white 3. ‘Dr Jekyll, looking
hair’ deathly sick.’
3. ‘ape-like fury’ 4. ‘The fog still slept’
4. ‘the bones were audibly 5. ‘Henry Jekyll forge for a
shattered’ murderer!’
5. ‘A great chocolate-
coloured pall lowered
over heaven’
Chapter 9 Chapter 10
1. ‘Lanyon my life my 1. ‘I concealed my
honour my reason are pleasures’
all at your mercy’ 2. ‘Man is not truly one,
2. ‘something seizing but truly two’
surprising and 3. ‘more wicked, tenfold
revolting’ more wicked’
3. ‘a certain icy pang along 4. ‘my new power
my blood’ tempted me until I fell
4. ‘I could hear his teeth in slavery’
grate with the 5. ‘Ugly idol’
convulsive action of his 6. ‘My devil had been long
jaws’ caged, he came out
5. ‘My life is shaken to its roaring’
roots’ 7. ‘this is my true hour of
death’
 Linking quotations
Simply, write the number of the quote under the appropriate categories (see example). Then begin thinking and linking: what patterns/trends can you identify? How
else are the quotes within the same category connected? What is being revealed about the writer’s interests/priorities? Why is he doing this? Annotate sheet with ideas.

CHARACTERS THEMES Methods context

JEKYLL Duality Motifs (create sub-groups) Victorian

1.1 1.1 compromise

1.1
Zoomorphism
HYDE Friendship
Evolution /
Devolution
Pathetic Fallacy

UTTERSON Violence / conflict

1.1
Religions Imagery Criminality /
Atavism

LANYON Reputation
Comparisons
(similes/metaphors)
Gothic Genre

POOLE Science Vs Religion

Contrasts
(oxymorons/juxtaposition)