J+H quotes Flashcards
1
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how is setting described, chapter 1 [9]
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- ‘all emulously hoping to do better still and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry’
- ‘air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen’
- ‘street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood like a fire in a forest’
- ‘freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note’
- ‘sinister block of building thrust forward’
- ‘showed no window […] blind forehead of discoloured wall […] bore in every feature the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence’
- ‘The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.’
- ‘no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or repair their ravages’
- street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church
2
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hyde kills the girl, chapter 1 [12]
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- ‘Trampled calmly […] sounds nothing to hear but was hellish to see
- ‘gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running’
- ‘we told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should make his name stink from one end of london to the other’
- ‘really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheques the very pink of the proprieties’
- ‘an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth’
- ‘Damned juggernaut’
- ‘Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him’
- ‘My gentleman’
- ‘Black, sneering coolness […] carrying it off, sir, really like satan’
- as wild as harpies. I never saw a circle of such hateful faces
- There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable
- he must be deformed somehwere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity
3
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describing Utterson, chapter 1 [7]
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- ‘Last reputable acquaintance and last good influence in the lives of down going men’
- ‘never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; long, lean, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable’
- ‘something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something which indeed never found its way into his talk’
- ‘I incline to Cain’s heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.’
- ‘austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.’
- ‘approved tolerance for others’
- ‘undemonstrative at best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature’
4
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enfield is kinda suspicious, chapter 1 [6]
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- No, sir: I had a delicacy’ […] No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.
- I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning,
5
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jekyll’s house is nice??, chapter 2 [5]
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- ‘ancient, handsome houses’
- ‘comfortable hall […] warmed bya bright, open fire and furnished with costly cabinets of oak’
- ‘pleasantest room in london
- ‘in the gloom of his spirits he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof’
- wore a great air of wealth and comfort
6
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lanyon disagrees with jekyll, chapter 2 [2]
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- ‘Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind’
- ‘”such unscientific balderdash” added here the doctor flushing suddenly purple, “would have estranged Damon and Pythias.’”
7
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utterson doesn’t like hyde, chapter 2 [5]
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- ‘it was already bad enough when the name was but a name of which he could learn no more. It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes and out of the shifting insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye their leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend’
- ‘even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher’s inclination’
- ‘O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if every I read satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend’
- ‘unknown disgust, loathing and fear’
- ‘shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory’
8
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descriptions of hyde, chapter 2 [7]
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- ‘shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath’
- ‘Air of defiance’
- ‘“common friends” echoed Mr Hyde, a little hoarsely’
- ‘“he never told you” cried Mr Hyde with a flush of anger’
- ‘Snarled aloud into a savage laugh’
- ‘Pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’
- ‘god bless me, the man seems hardly human! something troglodytic […] or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through and transfigures its clay continent’
9
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descriptions of lanyon, chapter 2 [3]
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- ‘Great dr Lanyon’
- ‘Hearty, healthy dapper-faced gentleman’
- ‘the geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling’
10
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utterson is worried about jekyll, chapter 2 [8]
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- ‘it was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions’
- ‘the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given’
- ‘my mind misgives me, he is in deep waters!’
- ‘He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations’
- ‘the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten and selflove condoned the fault. ‘
- This Master Hyde […] must have secrets of his own; black secrets, by the look of him; secrets compared to which poor Jekyll’s worst would be like sunshine.
- if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city
- ‘and still the figure had no face’
11
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descriptions of jekyll, chapter 3 [9]
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- ‘large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness’
- ‘the topic was distasteful; but the doctor carried it off gaily’
- ‘scientific heresies’ (Lanyon about Jekyll)
- ‘“my will? yes, certainly, I know that,” said the doctor, a trifle sharply’
- “The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips and there came a blackness about his eyes”
- ‘with a certain incoherency of manner’
- ‘“it is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking”’
- the moment i choose, i can be rid of mr hyde
- ‘“this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep”’
12
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london in chapter 4 [6]
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- ‘london was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim’
- ‘lit by the full moon’
- ‘about nine in the morning […]a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours’
- ‘haggard shaft of daylight in between the swirling wreaths’
- ‘the dismal quarter of Soho […] muddy ways and slatternly passengers […] seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare’
- ‘the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house […] many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities […] the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.
13
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hyde kills carew, chapter 4, [6]
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- ‘all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger’
- ‘brandishing the cane, and carrying on like a madman’
- ‘Broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth’
- with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway
- ‘particularly small and particularly wicked-looking’
- ‘haunting sense of unexpressed deformity’
14
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utterson’s dream about hyde, chapter 4 [4]
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- the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor’s; and then these met, and that human juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams.
- Or else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep […] there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding
- if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city
- even in his dreams, it had no face
15
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description of carew, chapter 4 [3]
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- ‘aged and beautiful gentleman’
- ‘a very pretty manner of politeness’
- Carew was full of ‘an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition’
