English resources/Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/Mr Edward Hyde
Mr Edward Hyde
Jekyll's evil self. Small, pale, and wrong. He hurts people and enjoys it.
The quotes
22 quotes by or about Mr Edward Hyde, in the order they happen.
It was like some damned Juggernaut.
Enfield · Chapter 1: Story of the Door · violence · evil
Hyde walks over a small girl in the street and keeps going. Like a huge machine that crushes what is in its way.
There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.
Enfield · Chapter 1: Story of the Door · evil
Enfield cannot say what is wrong with Hyde. He just knows something is.
I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.
Enfield · Chapter 1: Story of the Door · evil
Everyone who meets Hyde hates him. Nobody can explain it.
If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
Utterson · Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde · secrecy
Utterson makes a joke of the name. He will hunt Hyde down.
the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?
Utterson · Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde · evil · science
Hyde seems less than human. Like a cave man. A creature from before people.
Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation
Narrator · Chapter 2: Search for Mr Hyde · evil
Small, pale, and somehow wrong, but nothing you could point to.
the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.
Jekyll · Chapter 3: Dr Jekyll Was Quite at Ease · duality · science
Jekyll thinks he is in control. He can stop whenever he wants. He cannot.
with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot
Narrator · Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case · violence · evil
Hyde beats an old man to death with a stick. Like an animal, not a man.
a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven
Narrator · Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case · setting · evil
London fog like a brown blanket over the sky. The city hides things.
like a district of some city in a nightmare
Narrator · Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case · setting
Hyde's part of London looks like a bad dream. The place matches the man.
the two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped
Guest · Chapter 5: Incident of the Letter · duality · secrecy
Hyde's handwriting is Jekyll's, leaning the other way. A clue nobody follows.
I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again.
Jekyll · Chapter 5: Incident of the Letter · religion · secrecy
Jekyll swears he is done with Hyde. He means it. It does not hold.
Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
Poole · Chapter 8: The Last Night · secrecy · duality
Poole the servant has seen the thing in the lab. It wore a mask. It was not his master.
that thing was not my master, and there's the truth.
Poole · Chapter 8: The Last Night · duality
Poole cannot say what it was. Only what it was not.
the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching
Narrator · Chapter 8: The Last Night · violence · evil
Hyde, dead on the floor, in Jekyll's clothes that are too big for him.
I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · duality · evil
Hyde is winning. Jekyll can feel himself disappearing.
Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · evil · duality
Everyone else is a mix. Hyde is the only pure thing. Pure evil.
This, too, was myself.
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · duality
Jekyll sees Hyde in the mirror and admits it. That is me too.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · evil · violence
Jekyll stopped taking the potion for two months. When Hyde came back he killed a man.
the animal within me licking the chops of memory
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · evil · science
After the murder, part of Jekyll enjoys remembering it. Like an animal after a meal.
Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · duality · reputation
Jekyll is shocked by what Hyde does. But he made Hyde so he could do it.
the powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll
Jekyll · Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case · duality · evil
The weaker Jekyll gets, the stronger Hyde grows.
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