Jekyll And Hyde Flashcards
Chapter 1 Jekyll’s House - Quotes
- Setting and Hyde, Jekyll
‘Busy quarter of London. The street was…quiet’
‘Street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood’
‘Like a Fire in a Forest’
‘Sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street’
‘Prolonged and sordid negligence’ (gothic decay - moral depravity)
‘Neither bell nor knocker’ - alienation + secrecy
Chapter 1 Jekyll’s House - Context
Utterson and Enfield walk past Jekyll’s house then Enfield shares anecdote about Hyde trampling child
Chapter 4 U. Outside Hyde’s House - Quotes
- Setting and Hyde
‘First fog of the season’ - mystery
‘Like the light of some strange conflagration’ (twilight) - hell
‘Muddy ways, and slatternly passengers’ - moral depravity
‘Like a district of some city in a nightmare’ - U.
‘Some touch of that terror’ (about visiting Hyde)
‘Ragged children huddled in the doorways’ - physiognomy - moral depravity
Chapter 4 U. Outside Hyde’s House - Context
U. and police’s journey to inspect Hyde’s house after murder
Chapter 5 Jekyll’s place after the murder of Carew - Quotes
- Setting and Jekyll, Hyde?
‘Late in the afternoon’
‘Dingy, windowless structure’
‘Distasteful sense of strangeness’
‘Once crowded with eager students now lying gaunt and silent’
‘Floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw’
‘Three dusty windows barred with iron’
‘The fog began to lie thickly’
Mystery (gothic) + alienation of J. and declining health
‘Dr Jekyll, looking deathly sick…cold hand…changed voice’ - guilt of J.
‘I was thinking of my own character’ - Victorian gentleman
Chapter 5 Jekyll’s place after the murder of Carew - Context
U. visits J.’s place and J. promises never to correspond with H. again.
Chapter 3 First appearance + at dinner - Quotes
- Jekyll
‘Well-made, smooth-faced man of 50’ - well-kempt
‘slyish cast…kindness…affection’ - contrast, duality
‘doctor carried it off gaily’ - (U. mentions will) chapter title - quite at ease
‘hide-bound pedant, Lanyon’ - talking about L. behind his back, not gentlemanly contrast U. who remains gentlemanly, ‘disregarding the fresh topic’
‘Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips’ (U. ‘learning something of young Hyde’) - fear of secret discovered.
Chapter 3 First appearance + at dinner - Context
Jekyll hosts a dinner for his gentlemanly friends and U. stays behind to talk to J.
Chapter 7 U. and E. talk to J. on their walk - Quotes
- Jekyll
‘I feel as if the presence of a friend might do him good’ - U. unaware of extent of problem
‘windows’ - separation from outside world
‘infinite sadness of mien…disconsolate prisoner’ - effect of H. on J.
‘“I am very low, Utterson,” replied the doctor drearily, “very low. It will not last long, thank God.”’ - fatalistic, tired
‘expression of such abject terror and despair’
‘froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below…turned and left the court without a word’ - gothic reaction, speechless
Chapter 7 U. and E. talk to J. on their walk - Context
U. and E. enter J.’s courtyard and spot him through a window before striking up a conversation.
Chapter 4 Inside Hyde’s House - Quotes
- Hyde and Setting
Jekyll:
‘luxury…good taste…silver…napery elegant…a good picture’ - high class wealth, elegance
Contrast Hyde:
‘hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor…pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open’ - chaos, destruction, violence, volatility, Hyde exposes (pockets, drawers) like Hyde exposes id.
Chapter 4 Murder of Carew - Quotes
- Hyde
‘all of a sudden…a great flame of anger’ - metaphor; devil, hellish + volatility
‘trifle hurt’ - Carew, calm + vic. gentleman contrasts H.
‘broke out of all bounds’ - breaking boundaries (gothic)
‘ape-like fury’ - atavism
‘hailing down a storm of blows’ - metaphor, emphatic, vivid noun, elemental language
‘bones were audibly shattered’ - sensory language = magnitude
‘the maid fainted’ - vic. female reaction
‘insensate cruelty’ - cold, callous
