Jekyl and Hyde quotes Flashcards

1
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Reputation .. I had been

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Safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved

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2
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Soho quotes (3)

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Soho … with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers
Some city in a nightmare
Dingy street

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3
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Hyde / Darwin - less evolved version of the doctor (5)

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Animal within
Seems hardly human
Animal terror
Like a monkey
Savage laugh
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4
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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)

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‘Comfortable’ house whose ‘air of wealth’ contrasts with ‘sinister’ laboratory.
‘Dingy, windowless structure’

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5
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Utterson quote re Hyde - uneasy

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There is something more, if I could find a name for it

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6
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Early signs of Jekyll’s dual personality

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Slyish cast

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7
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Symbolism of settings - duality (again)

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Soho - poverty and immorality

Located in rich and respectable west end

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8
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Reputation more important than justice / truth (2) Utterson

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If it came to a trial, your name might appear

If your master is dead we may at least save his reputation

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9
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Sympathy for Jekyll? (2)

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also

No one has ever suffered such torments

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10
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How does Stevenson build suspense? (4)

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Scared servants
Poole’s anxiety
Locked door
‘ this is a strange note’

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11
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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 …..

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Slowly losing hold of my original and better self

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12
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Jekyll not an innocent victim, enjoys freedom of being Hyde, indulging his evil side without dealing with consequences (3)

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‘Like a schoolboy’
Jumping in a ‘sea of liberty’
‘Younger, lighter, happier’

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13
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Dual nature of man

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‘I learned ..the thorough and primitive duality of man‘

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14
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Religion -

3

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distinguished for religion
Secret sinner
The spirit of hell
Startling blasphemies

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15
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Darkness and light

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A haggard shaft of twilight (soho)
Fog ‘cuts him off’ (Utterson)
Brilliantly lit by the full moon (Carew’s murder)

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16
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Enfield quote re Hyde

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I never saw a man I so disliked and yet I scarce know why

17
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J & H opposites?
Kindness vs
Tall fine build vs
All men’s respect vs

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Callous
Dwarfish
Damnable

18
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All human’s are sinful

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‘ the hard law of life which lies at the root of religion’

19
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Science

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‘Unscientific balderdash’

20
Q
If Hyde is 
Callous 
Dwarfish
Damnable 
Jekyll is ...
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kind
Tall fine build
Worthy of all men’s respect