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Evil in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Hyde is pure evil, and everyone can feel it before they can explain it. The book asks where evil comes from. Jekyll's answer: from inside.
The quotes
15 quotes, 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.
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.
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.
an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below
Narrator · Chapter 7: Incident at the Window · duality · evil
Mid-sentence, Jekyll's face changes to horror. He slams the window. Hyde is coming out.
God forgive us, God forgive us
Utterson · Chapter 7: Incident at the Window · religion · evil
After they see Jekyll's face change at the window, Utterson can only pray. Twice.
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.
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.
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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