Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Quotes Flashcards
Duality of man
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Strength of evil
“Henry Jekyll stood aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde, but the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscious. It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty.”
Importance of reputation
” ‘If you choose to make capital out of this accident’, said [Hyde], ‘I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,’ says he. ‘Name your figure.’ “
Pathetic fallacy [hyde]
house has a ““great air of wealth and comfort”
pathetic fallacy [Jekyll]
house displays an air of ‘prolonged and sordid negligence’
physiognomy [hyde]
“There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable”
physiognomy [Jekyll]
“a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness”
physiognomy [strength of evil]
‘troglodytic’ ‘hardly human’ ‘hairy’
