Jekyl and Hyde quotes Flashcards
Reputation .. I had been
Safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved
Soho quotes (3)
Soho … with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers
Some city in a nightmare
Dingy street
Hyde / Darwin - less evolved version of the doctor (5)
Animal within Seems hardly human Animal terror Like a monkey Savage laugh
Jekyll’s house is an important symbol. House and laboratory physically connected, symbolises that J & H are two different sides of the same person. (4)
‘Comfortable’ house whose ‘air of wealth’ contrasts with ‘sinister’ laboratory.
‘Dingy, windowless structure’
Utterson quote re Hyde - uneasy
There is something more, if I could find a name for it
Early signs of Jekyll’s dual personality
Slyish cast
Symbolism of settings - duality (again)
Soho - poverty and immorality
Located in rich and respectable west end
Reputation more important than justice / truth (2) Utterson
If it came to a trial, your name might appear
If your master is dead we may at least save his reputation
Sympathy for Jekyll? (2)
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also
No one has ever suffered such torments
How does Stevenson build suspense? (4)
Scared servants
Poole’s anxiety
Locked door
‘ this is a strange note’
At first jekyll seems in control of immoral side but one morning he wakes up as Hyde without taking the drug and says that he’s …..
Slowly losing hold of my original and better self
Jekyll not an innocent victim, enjoys freedom of being Hyde, indulging his evil side without dealing with consequences (3)
‘Like a schoolboy’
Jumping in a ‘sea of liberty’
‘Younger, lighter, happier’
Dual nature of man
‘I learned ..the thorough and primitive duality of man‘
Religion -
3
distinguished for religion
Secret sinner
The spirit of hell
Startling blasphemies
Darkness and light
A haggard shaft of twilight (soho)
Fog ‘cuts him off’ (Utterson)
Brilliantly lit by the full moon (Carew’s murder)