Hyde's Physical Appearance and Deformity

From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hyde provokes visceral disgust in everyone he meets, yet his deformity is famously impossible to name — a moral ugliness made flesh.
Chapter 2

Utterson on Hyde: 'He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point... God bless me, the man seems hardly human!'

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Chapter 4 (The Carew Murder Case)

The maid describes Hyde with 'ape-like fury,' linking him to Victorian fears of atavism and degeneration.

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