Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Flashcards
Quotes for Mr Utterson
“public face” but he “drinks gin alone”
“catholicity of good nature”——Religion
“austere with himself”- stubborn
“a singularly strong almost inordinate, curiosity”
“It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane”
“something eminently human beaconed from his eye”
“last good influence in the lives of down going men”
“my shoulders are broad enough to bare the blame”
Quotes for Mr Hyde
- “ape like” and “troglodyte” - pre human (growing back)
- “spirit of hell” “satans signiture upon a face” and
- “trampled calmly over the childs body” nonchalence
- “a man who was without bowels of mercy”
- “hissing intake of breath” “snarled a loud and savage laugh”
Quotes for Dr Jekyll
his work is “wholly towards the mystic and transcendental”
“chief of sinners, chief of sufferers” “secret sinner”
“well known and highly considered”
“i bring the life of that unhappy jekyll to an end”- troubled
“my animal had been long caged, he came out roaring”
“bade him welcome in a changed voice”#
“I concealed my pleasures, hid them with a morbid sense of shame”
“sincere and warm affection”
Quotes for Dr Lanyon
(rational) “a horror of the spirit” views on jekylls work
“Jekyll became too fanciful for me”
“Welcomed him with both hands”
“I felt bound to do as he requested”
“i have gone too far….to pause before i see the end”
“he had his death warrent written legibly upon his face”
“hearty healthy dapper red faced gentleman”
Quotes for Science vs Religion
“Too fanciful” “unscientific balderdash”
“that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion”-(Jeykll)
Jekyll is a “secret sinner” and Hyde is “the spirit of hell”
“as empty as a church”- chap 1
“devilish little of the man” - lanyon 2
“I give you my bible word” - 8
“no less distinguished for religion”
“In his own hand with startling blasphemes”
Quotes for the streets
Upper Class------ "Shone out like a fire in a forest" ---cant hide secrets, "welcoming air" "like rows of smiling saleswomen" Lower Class------ "contrast to its dingy neighbourhood" "thrusting out" "sordid negligence" "blistered"
Quotes for Secrecy
“the blow shook the building […] four times the blow fell” breaking the door
“I concealed my pleasures” Jekyll
“same deep sealed terror of the mind” Lanyon chap 6
Quotes for reputation
“I beg of you to let it sleep”
“The ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace” - Utterson suspects blackmail
“counted them the chief jewel of each week”
“make his name stink from one end of london to the other”
“I shall it my business that you are no loser”
Quotes for Justice/ law
“i loaded an old revolver that i might be found in some posture of self defence”
“It was never Dr Jekyll.. there was a murder done”
“it is my duty to make certians” -utterson
Quotes for silence/ secrets
“jack in the box of an old inequity” - 2
“within was another enclosure”
“innermost private part of the safe”
“let us make a bargain never to speak of this again”
Quotes for anger/ violence
“smile struck out of his face”
“i beg of you to let it sleep” “to whom i regard as dead”
“my devil had been long caged he came out roaring”
Quotes for Mr enfield
“chief jewel of each week” “well known man about town”
“we screwed him up to £100”
“about 3 oclock on a dark winters morning…longed for the sight of a policeman”
Quotes for Poole and other minor characters
eg women
“your master seems to respire a great deal of trust”
“his eyes directed to the floor” - subsurviant manner
“men and women huddled together like a flock of sheep”
Quotes for subtle links between jekyll and hyde
“clothes of the Dr’s bigness”
“Jekyll was my city of refuge”
“evil was written broadly and legibly across the face of the other”
“I had gone to bed henry jekyll, i had awoken edward hyde”
Quotes for duality
“if i am the chief of sinners then i am the chief of sufferers also”
“man is not truly one but truly two”
“primitive duality of mankind” “polar twins”
