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Violence in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Hyde tramples a girl and beats a man to death. Both are sudden, both are like an animal.

Mr Hyde
Mr Hyde. Charles Raymond Macauley, 1904 edition. No known restrictions, Internet Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotes

4 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.

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.

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.

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.

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