jekyll and hyde Flashcards
-Duality of Human Nature
“Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” - Mr. Gabriel John Utterson (Chapter 1)
“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
Science and Morality
“I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“Cursed with my duality of purpose; the lower side of me… began to growl for license.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
Repression and Unleashing of Desires
“If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable…” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“The unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin…” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
Social Hypocrisy
“Hence that conscience which will only be appeased by a voluntary act of what is called self-sacrifice, what more precisely should be named, self-mortification.” - Narrator (Chapter 10)
“Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.” - Narrator (Chapter 10)
-The Supernatural
“It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together.” - Narrator (Chapter 10)
“Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone, but now his imagination also was engaged.” - Narrator (Chapter 10)
Addiction and Dependency
“I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
Isolation and Alienation
“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
Dual Settings
“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
The Consequences of Unchecked Ambition
“I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
Symbolism of the Door
“It was to be given to me in sudden, unlooked-for manner, in the central room of my dreams, with the many faces and the great sound of penitential hymns.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)
“And I put the glass to my lips and drank half of it; drank it with the same enchantment.” - Dr. Jekyll (Chapter 10)