Jekyll and Hyde Flashcards
Chapter 1 (Opening line/Mr Utterson)
Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance
that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed
in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet
somehow lovable
Chap 1 Utterson speaks about his friends
I incline to Cain’s heresy […] I let my brother go
to the devil in his own way
Chap 1 Enfield on Hyde
He is not easy to describe[…] something downright detestable
Chap 1 Enfield describes Hyde trampling girl
Little man trampled calmly over the child’s body[…] it was hellish to see
Chap 1 Enfield’s description of Hyde
damned Juggernaut[…]like Satan
Chap 1 Enfield on gossip/secrecy
I am ashamed of my long tongue
Chap 2 Lanyon on Jekyll’s experiments
Such unscientific balderdash
Chap 2 Utterson searches for Hyde
If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek
Chap 2Utterson’s impressions of Hyde
“pale and dwarfish”; “murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”; “Satan’s signature upon his face”
Chap 3 Jekyll on Hyde
the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde
Chap 3 Description of Jekyll
every mark of capacity and kindness
Chap 3 Jekyll on Lanyon
hidebound, ignorant pedant
Chap 4 Setting mruder takes place
fog roller over[…][the] night was cloudless[…]brilliantly lit by the full moon
Chap 4 Hyde attacks Carew
clubbed him to the earth[…] with ape-like fury[…][his] bones were audibly shattered
Chap 4 Setting as Utterson searches for Hyde
“chocolate coloured pall”; “dismal quarter of Soho”; “some city in a nightmare”
Chap 5 Jekyll’s Lab
dingy windowless structure […][with]windows barred with iron
Chap 5 Jekyll on Hyde
I swear to God I will never set eyes on him
Chap 5 Setting
fog slept above the drowned city
Chap 5 Utterson on Jekyll’s note, which he claimed was from Hyde
I wouldn’t speak of this note
Chap 6 Lanyon on his fate
Lanyon declared himself a doomed man
Chap 6 Jekyll on himslef
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers
Chap 6 Utterson tempted to open Lanyon’s letter
A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the
prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but
professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.
Chap 7 Jekyll’s reaction to the uncontrolled transformation into Hyde
abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below
Chap 7 Utterson and Enfield to seeing Jekyll in distress
both pale[…]horror in their eyes