J + H Flashcards
N 1.3
utterson’s face
“a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile”
N 1.3
N 1.3
utterson’s characteristics
“cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse”
N 1.3
N 1.3
how others found Utterson
“somehow lovable”
N 1.3
N 1,3
how Utterson treated himself
“austere with himself”
N 1.3
N 1.3
what U did when he was alone
“drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages”
N 1.3
N 1.3
gd quality of Utterson
“inclined to help rather than to reprove.”
N 1.3
N 1.3
what was U usually known as. shows his loyalty
“last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.”
N 1.3
N 1.4
description of back lab entrance to J’s house
4
(block of building, windows, door, windows)
- “a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.”
- “showed no window”
- door of house “was equipped with neither bell nor knocker”
- “the windows are always shut, but they’re clean.” – E 1.6
N 1.4
E 1.4
description of trampling
- “the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.”
- “it was hellish to see.”
E 1.4
E 1.5
initial Hyde description
“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.”
E 1.5
E 1.5
Enfield scared of Hyde
(cool, ugly look, sweat)
“He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.”
E 1.5
Enfield hates Hyde
- “I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.” – E 1.5
sawbones
2
- “as emotional as a bagpipe.” – description of doctor – E 1.5
- “Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him.” – E 1.5
Enfield and Hyde reputation
- “make his name stink from one end of London to the other.” – what Enfield threatens to do to Hyde – E 1.5
Hyde’s reaction
2
- “black sneering coolness” – E 1.5
- “like Satan.” – E 1.5
J initial description
2
- “the very pink of the proprieties” – E 1.6
- “one of your fellows who do what they call good.” – E 1.6
what E thinks has happened to J
- “Blackmail” – E 1.6
enfield’s repuation rule
- “the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.” – E 1.6
E 1.7
Hyde description
2
(something amiss, deformity)
- “He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.” – E 1.7
- “he gives a strong feeling of deformity,” – E 1.7
Enfield reputation
- “I am ashamed of my long tongue.” – E 1.7
Lanyon description
- “a hearty healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous decided manner.” – N 2.8
L and J drifted apart
- “it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me.” – Utterson didn’t know about this – not a great friend – L 2.9
what made L and J drift apart
- “Such unscientific balderdash, would have estranged Damon and Pythias.” – L 2.9
Utterson can’t sleep
- “besieged by questions.” – Utterson can’t sleep because he is so curious about this Hyde – N 2.9
Utterson truth seeker
- “If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek.” – U 2.10
Hyde animalistic on 1st meeting w/U
- “Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath.”
N 2.11
Utterson’s initial thoughts of Hyde
3
- “Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation,” – N 2.12
- “troglodytic,” – U 2.12
- “if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend!” – U 2.12
how U believes J is in this situation with H
- “the ghost of some old sin,”
U 2.13
J initial description
- “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps,” – N 3.14
what J calls Lanyon
- “hide-bound pedant,” – J 3.14
U trying to get J to open up to help him
- “Jekyll, you know me: I am a man to be trusted.” – U 3.14
how H killed Sir Danvers Carew
- “with ape-like fury,” – N 4.16
- “the bones were audibly shattered” – N 4.16
N 5.19
description of J’s house, links to prev. description of house
2
- “dingy windowless structure” – N 5.19
- “door covered with red baize” – how the door to Jekyll’s cabinet is described – N 5.19
red-baize used for soundproofing
J false promise to U
- “I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world.” – J 5.19
why J says he gives letter of H dipping to U. reputation
- “I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed.” – J 5.20
U defending J’s rep. after finding out he lying
“I wouldn’t speak of this note” - U 5.22
“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!” - U 5.22
J turning around in life after Carew’s murder
- “he was now no less distinguished for religion.” – Jekyll - N 6.22
description of L after he witnessed transformation
- “He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face.” – Lanyon – N 6.23
Lanyon and J now opps again
- “I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.” – L 6.23
J shutting himself up in his cabinet
- “I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion.” – J 6.24
J feels sorry for himself
- “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” – J 6.24
why Utterson didn’t open Lanyon’s letter early
- “professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations” - N 6.25
U 6.25
curiousity U
- “It is one thing to mortify curiousity, another to conquer it.” - U 6.25
what U describes J’s house as
- “house of voluntary bondage,” – Jekyll’s house – N 6.25
U worried abt J
- “I am uneasy about poor Jekyll;” – U 7.25
what U thinks of J
- “disconsolate prisoner” - N 7.26
the second J’s happy, H comes back
- “the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.” - N 7.26
N 7.26
secrecy
(window)
- “the window was instantly thrust down” – N 7.26
N 7.26
Victorian reputation (U and E after seeing J transform into H in the window)
- “they turned and left the court without a word.” – N 7.26
Poole thinking within the boundaries of reason still
- “I think there’s been foul play” – Poole 8.27
N 8.27
foreshadowing to J’s fate on the way to his crib
2
- “Mr Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted.” – like J – N 8.27
- “the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing.” - like J – N 8.27
U 8.28
U clinging to reputation in front of J’s servants
- “your master would be far from pleased.” – U 8.28
U rational - can’t comprehend supernatural
- “That won’t hold water; it doesn’t commend itself to reason.” – U 8.29
H taking over J as he writing letter
- “with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer’s emotion had broken loose. ‘For God’s sake,’ he had added, ‘find me some of the old’” – N 8.29
Poole 8.30
Poole confused abt J’s actions - he suspects for these reasons, J has been murdered
- “why had he a mask upon his face?” – Poole 8.30
- “why did he cry out like a rat and run from me?” – Poole 8.30
U clinging to reason
- Jekyll “is plainly seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer” – U 8.30
U trying to save J’s rep. even after his death
- “I would say nothing of this paper. If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit.” – U 8.35
9.36
Jekyll and Lanyon have different views of how close they are to each other.
2
- “my colleague and old school-companion” – what he describes J as – L 9.36
- “one of my oldest friends” – what J describes L as – J 9.36
J’s manipulation of L
4
(affection, left hand, tonight, blackness)
- “I cannot remember, at least on my side, any break in our affection.” – J 9.36
- “There was never a day when, if you had said to me, ‘Jekyll, my life, my honour, my reason, depend upon you,’ I would not have sacrificed my fortune or my left hand to help you.” – manipulative - J 9.36
- “if you fail me tonight, I am lost.” – J 9.36
- “Think of me at this hour, in a strange place, labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy can exaggerate” – J 9.37
Lanyon’s Victorian honour
- “I felt bound to do as he requested.” – L 9.37
L is a scientific fellow (recognises some ingredients in J’s drawer)
- “a simple crystalline salt of a white colour. The phial… might have been about half full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell, and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.” – L 9.38
L still thinks purely in material, so can’t fully grasp all ingredients in drawer
- “At the other ingredients I could make no guess.” – L 9.38
L 9.38
L’s view of J scientifically
- “a series of experiments that had led (like too many of Jekyll’s investigations) to no end of practical usefulness.” – L 9.38
L’s apprehension and confusion before H arrives at his crib
- “How could the presence of these articles in my house affect either the honour, the sanity, or the life of my flighty colleague?” – L 9.38
L’s medical examination of H
(muscles, face)
- “remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution.” – L 9.39
what L describes H as
- “disgustful curiosity” – what he describes H as - L 9.39
- “the creature” – what he describes H as - L 9.39
Hyde’s lack of manners show how he ain’t a Victorian gentleman
- “‘Have you got it?’ he cried. ‘Have you got it?’” – H 9.39
Hyde is about to burst and fucking murder Lanyon
- “I could see, in spite of his collected manner, that he was wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria” – L 9.40
L is scared but tries to remain courageous
- “Compose yourself” – L 9.40
L is a slave to his curiosity
- “Will you be wise? …or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?” – H 9.40
what H offers L
- “a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you… and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.” – H 9.40
J’s transformation in front of L
(3 parts)
- “you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided you superiors - behold!” – Lanyon – J 9.41
Lanyon’s worldview shattered
- “My life is shaken to its roots” – L 9.41
J born into high status. reputation
- “I was born in the year 18- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts,…fond of the respect of the wise.” – J 10.41
J already putting up a facade before all this transcendental medicine business
- “I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” - J 10.42
cold line abt duality of man
- “man is not truly one, but truly two.” – J 10.42
what J believed was best course of action with this whole duality issue
- “If each could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable” – J 10.42
J hates duality
- “It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together” – J 10.43
temptation is what led him to Hyde
- “the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.” – J 10.43
first reaction to Hyde
- “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” – J 10.44
J 10.44
other members of Jekyll’s household are prisoners
- “the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber” – J 10.44
duality of human beings vs Hyde
- “all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” - J 10
J theorises how if he had had gd thoughts when taking the potion, he would have transformed into his gd side not Hyde
- “Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit…I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend.” – J 10.45
J preparing to become Hyde fr
- “I made my preparations with the most studious care.” – J 10.45
J soaking in glory of being able to transform into H
- “Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures.” – J 10.46
J coping. blaming crimes on H.
- “It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty.” - J 10.46
J 10.48
Hyde first begins gaining power over J after he had transformed into Hyde in his sleep
- “I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.” – J 10.48
differences in J and H in their relationship. J obsessed w Hyde while Hyde just uses J to not get arrested and executed
- “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.” – J 10.48
J proves yet again that he’s addicted to Hyde by not destroying whatever remnants of Hyde laid behind. then he takes potion again
- “I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde” – J 10.49
- “in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.” – J 10.49
J 10.49
sir danvers carew murder from J’s perspective
2
- “My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring” - J 10.49
- “I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow” – J 10.49
J 10.50
Jekyll trying to redeem his past after Carew’s murder
- “I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past” – J 10.50
Hyde was eager to get back out
- “the animal within me licking the chops of memory” – J 10.51
Hyde was able to think rationally too and calm himself down. not completely animalistic
- “the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will” – J 10.52
J no longer afraid of death. just of the atrocities H would commit
- “It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.” – J 10.52
Hyde hated J as he had to use him only to just escape the authorities. He wasn’t the mc of his body
- “His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide” – Hyde – J 10.53
Hyde being animalistic and trying to ruin J
- “the apelike tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father” – J 10.54
Hyde is afraid of death. J feels sorry for him
- “he fears my power to cut him off by suicide” – J 10.54
- “I find it in my heart to pity him.” – J 10.54
J’s final words
- “I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.” – J 10.54
