This document includes thematically divided lists of quotes for Jekyll and Hyde that are perfect for GCSE essays. This list, along with others, enabled me to achieve a Grade 9 at GCSE for English literature. These quotes lists can also be used for AQA.
, Duality, Appearance vs Reality, Repression and secrecy
Jekyll and Hyde/ Jekyll’s duality and ideas
● “A figure to whom power was given”
● “face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness to his eyes.”
● “the moment I chose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”
● “This is a private matter and I beg of you to let it sleep”
● “When I am no longer here”
● “Deadly sick”
● “I swear to God, I shall never set eyes on him again”
● “Feverish manner”
● “I have received a letter”
● “Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer! And the blood ran cold in his veins.”
● “open and brighten”
● “if I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
● “must suffer me to go my own dark way.”
● “smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of abject terror and
despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.”
● “different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll.”
● “I am no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I
laboured in the eye of day.”
● “man was not truly one, but truly two”
● “thorough and primitive duality of man”.
● “two natures contended”
● “polar twins”.
● “unjust might go his own way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more
upright twin”.
● “extraneous evil”
● “the curse of mankind”
● “continuously struggling”
● “the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders and when the
attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful
pressure.”
● “the temptation of discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestion of
alarm.”
● “indescribably sweet”,
● “younger, lighter, happier”
● “unknown but not an innocent kind of freedom.”
● “wicked, tenfold more wicked”
● “a stranger in my own house.”
● “good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on
the face of the other.”
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