Jekyll Flashcards
1
Q
Jekyll is highly respectable and intelligent
A
- At his party all the people there are ‘all intelligent, reputable men’
- ‘In the public eye with a load of genial respectability’
- ‘My master… is a tall, fine build of a man’
- ‘well known and highly considered’
2
Q
Jekyll is unconventional (unusual)
A
- Jekyll is ‘too fanciful’
- ‘unscientific balderdash’
- ‘what he called my scientific heresies’
- ‘my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental’
- ‘i lines well that i risked death’
3
Q
Jekyll is conflicted
A
- ‘man is not truly one but truly two’
- ‘these polar twins should be continuously struggling’
- ‘i had not two characters as well as two appearances’
- ‘I began to reflect more seriously than ever before… of my double existence’
- ‘the perennial war among my members’
4
Q
Jekyll is out of control
A
- ‘my virtue slumbered’
- ‘but the hand which i now saw… was the hand of Edward Hyde
- ‘I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double… with the infinite risk of death’
- ‘i was slowly losing hold of my original and better self’
- ‘my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring’
