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Age and build

Small stature and slight build

“Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Dwarfish appearance

“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Face and hair

Pale complexion

“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Evil written plainly on the face

“evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Displeasing smile

“he had a displeasing smile” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Face bearing imprint of deformity and decay

“Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Dress

Clothes far too large for him at death

“He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 8)

Misfitting clothes when hunted

“attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Voice and speech

Husky, whispering and broken voice

“he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Signature words

Uses 'à propos' (by the way)

“and à propos, you should have my address” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Gait and mannerisms

Shrinks back with hissing intake of breath when confronted

“Mr. Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Quick, light way of moving

“it had the same quick, light way with it” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 8)

Walks fast when hunted

“He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less frequented thoroughfares” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Ape-like fury and movements

“with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 4)

Strengths

Faculties sharpened to a point in his second character

“in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Capable of astute reasoning under pressure

“Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Strong love of life and survival instinct

“But his love of life is wonderful” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Flaws

Inherently malign and villainous

“was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Drinks pleasure from torture of others

“drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Relentless and without conscience

“relentless like a man of stone” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Prone to sudden violent rage

“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” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 4)

Indifferent to Jekyll's interests and concerns

“Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Capable of ape-like malicious tricks

“the ape-like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Traits

Embodiment of pure evil alone in mankind

“Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Mixture of timidity and boldness

“he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Causes visible misgiving in those who meet him

“when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 10)

Raises spirit of enduring hatred in observers

“a face which had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Troglodytic or primitive in nature

“Something troglodytic, shall we say” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Radiates foul soul through physical form

“is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Lines in their own words

Coolly denying his identity

“That is my name. What do you want” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Asking how he was recognised

“How did you know me” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)

Offering his address

“it is as well we have met; and à propos, you should have my address” (Jekyll And Hyde, part 2)