Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Commonplace
“I gave a view holloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me on look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running” (35)
“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him” (43)
“And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman took a step back, with the air of one very much surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway” (48)
“If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that is unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil” (77)
“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil; and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” (79)
“By far the most remarkable work we have to notice this time is “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” a shilling story, which the reader devours in an hour, but to which he may return again and again” (135, Review of the book 1886)
Punch 90 Parody THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. T AND MR. H Or Two Single Gentlemen rolled into one (139-141)
