chapter 10 Flashcards
Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case
“with every guarantee…
of an honourable and distinguished future”
“I found it hard to reconcile…
with my imperious desire to carry my head high”
“wear a more than commonly…
grave countenance before the public”
“I concealed…
my pleasures”
“I stood already committed…
to a profound duplicity of life”
“many a man would have…
even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of”
“from the high views I had set before…
I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame”
“the exciting nature..
of my aspirations”
“provinces of good and ill…
which divide and compound man’s dual nature”
“I was driven to reflect deeply…
and inveterately on that hard law of life”
“which lies at the root of religion…
and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress”
“a double…
dealer”
“I was no more myself when I laid aside…
restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering” “
“it changed the direction of…
my scientific studies”
“led wholly towards the..
mystic and the transcendental”
“that man is not truly one..
but truly two”
“I learned to recognise…
the thorough and primitive duality of man”
“it was only because I was…
radically both”
“I had learned to dwell…
with pleasure, as a beloved daydream”
“I knew well that I risked…
death”
“any drug that so potently…
controlled and shook the very fortress of identity”
“the temptation of a discovery…
so singular and profound”
“with a strong glow of courage…
drank off the potion”
“the most racking pangs succeeded…
a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea and a horror of the spirit”
“I felt younger…
lighter, happier in body”
“an unknown but not an innocent…
freedom of the soul”
“at the first breath of this new life….
to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil”
“braced and delighted me…
like wine”
“exulting in the freshness…
of these sensations”
“a stranger…
in my own house”
“I saw for the first time…
the appearance of Edward Hyde”
“the evil side…
of my nature”
“the course of my life…
which had been, after all, nine tenths a life of effort, virtue and control”
“Edward Hyde was so much smaller…
slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll”
“even as good shine upon the countenance…
of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other”
“evil besides…
“which I still believe to be the lethal side of man”
“had left on that body…
an imprint of deformity and decay”
“This too..
was myself. It seemed natural and human”
“because all human beings…
as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil”
“Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind…
was pure evil”
“from a house…
that was no longer mine”
“shook the doors of the prisonhouse…
of my disposition and like the captives of Philipi, that which stood within ran forth”
“that my new power…
tempted me until I fell into slavery”
“But in the hands of Edward Hyde…
they soon began to turn toward the monstrous”
“drinking pleasure with bestial avidity..
from any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone”
“the hand of Henry Jekyll was….
professional in shape and size: it was large, firm, white and comely”
“was lean, corder, knuckly…
of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde”
“before terror…
woke up in my breast”
“I had gone to bed..
Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde”
“Jekyll had more than a fathers interest…
Hyde had more than a son’s indifference”
“I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor…
surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes”
“bad a resolute farewell to the liberty..
the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in the disguise of hyde”
“the complete moral insensibility…
and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde”
“my devil had been long caged…
he came out roaring”
“I declare, at lease, before God…
that no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation”
“instantly the spirit…
of hell awoke in me and raged”
“I mauled the unresisting body…
tasting delight from every blow”
“a cold thrill…
of terror”
“Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears if gratitude and remorse…
had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God”
“I followed it up from the days of childhood…
when I had walked with my father’s hand”
“the damned horrors…
of the evenings”
“I sought with tears and prayers…
to smother down the crowd of hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me”
“it was not only a crime…
it had been a tragic folly”
“Jekyll was now my city of refuge…
let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him”
“A moment before I had been safe of all men’s respect…
and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows”
“I gnashed my teeth…
upon him with a gust of devillish fury”
“I looked about me…
with so black a countenance as made the attendants tremble”
