J&H Flashcards
Gothic character
“Pale and dwarfish”
“An impression of deformity”
“Satans signature upon a face”
“Black sneering coolness like satan”
Victorian attitude
“I am ashamed of my long tongue”
Reputation
“Became too fanciful”
“Began to go wrong in mind”
“No gentleman but wishes to cause a scene”
“The more it looks like Queer Street the less I ask”
Good vs evil
“Alone in the ranks of man kind, pure evil”
“One of your fellows, who do what they call good”
Gothic imagery
“Swirling wreaths”
“Mournful re invasion of darkness”
“A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over heaven”
“The street was very solitary and in-spite of the low growl of London, very silent”
Science vs religion
“Unscientific balderdash”
“Ape like fury”
Secrecy
“Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed”
“The dingy windowless structure”
Duality
“All human beings, as we meet them are commingled out of good and evil” (10)
“Man is not truly one but truly two”
“I learned to recognise the primitive duality of man” (chap2)
“These polar twins should be continuously struggling” (chap10)