Jekyll and Hyde Flashcards
Qualities of Mr Utterson
self controlled-‘he was austere with himself’
loyal- ‘last good influence in the lives of down going men’
protective- ‘I can’t pretend that I shall ever like him’
rational- described as ‘a lover of the sane and customary sides of life’
Brave- ‘Well, let our name be vengeance’
Qualities of Lanyon (start)
Scientific- ‘such unscientific balderdash’
lively/spirited- ‘hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman’
friendly- ‘sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands’
Qualities of Lanyon (end)
sombre- ‘testify some deep seated terror of the mind’
frail- ‘he had his death-warrant written legibly on his face’
more frantic-‘I beg you to spare me any allusion to one I regard as dead’
stevenson context
Stevenson was interested in the exploration of human nature and and tries to explore degeneration and how everyone has the capability to regress.
important quotes in chapter 1 (story of the door)
‘lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable’
‘the man trampled calmly over the child’s body’
‘a name I cannot mention’
‘black sneering coolness’
important quotes chapter 2 (search for Mr Hyde)
‘baffled him and melted before his eyes’-too monstrous to comprehend
‘spirit of enduring hatred’ - from Enfield
‘low growl of London from all around’
‘God bless me’ after meeting Hyde for the first time
‘poor Jekyll’s worst would be like sunshine’
first impressions of Hyde
‘hissing intake of breath’
‘the other snarled aloud into a savage laugh’
‘He never told you’
‘murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’
Important chapter 3 (Jekyll was quite at ease)
‘hide-bound pedant’ + ‘scientific heresies’
‘there came a blackness about his eyes’ (jekyll)
‘the moment I choose I can be rid of Hyde’
‘I only ask for justice’-J
Jekyll first impressions
‘man’s rich silence’
‘sincere and warm affection’
‘every mark of capacity and kindness’
‘you do not understand my position’
Important quotes chapter4 (The Carew murder case)
- ‘ape like fury’
- A great chocolate- coloured pall lowered over the heaven
- ‘rooms … were furnished with luxury and good taste’
- ‘the other half of the stick was found behind the door’
Important quotes chapter 5 (incident of the Letter)
- once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt
- ‘the foggy cupola’ & ‘windows barred with iron’
- Jekyll looked ‘deadly sick’ and ‘held out a cold hand’
- ‘you have not been mad enough to hide this fellow’
- ‘I have lost confidence in myself’- J
- ‘the two hands are identical; only differently sloped
Important quotes chapter 6 (Remarkable incident of Dr Lanyon)
- Jekyll ‘now no less distinguished for religion’
- he was visibly balder and older
- seemed to testify some deep seated terror of the mind
- Layon declared himself a doomed man
important quotes chapter 7 (incident at the window)
- chapter is titled ‘incident at the window’ mirroring story of the door
- ‘we shall never see more of Mr Hyde’- E
- ‘premature twilight’- just before seeic J
- ‘I am very low Utterson… it will not last long, thank God’
- ‘froze the very blood of the two gentlemen’
- ‘God forgive us!’- U(is repeated
Important quotes chapter 8 part 1 (last night)
- ‘master’s been made away with; he was made away eight days ago’- p
- ‘that wont hold water; it doesn’t commend itself to reason’-U
- ‘your master …that both tortures and deforms the sufferer’-U
- ‘Down with the door, Poole!’-U
- ‘looking on the body of a self destroyer’
Important chapter 8 part 2 (last night)
- ‘to save or punish Hyde’(heaven or hell)
- ‘the kettle with a startling noise boiled over’ (suicide wasn’t planned
- Jekyll’s notes had ‘startling blasphemies’
- Jekyll calls himself ‘unworthy and unhappy
chapter 9 important quotes part 1 (Dr Lanyon’s narrative)
- ‘my life, my honour, my reason, are all at you mercy’-J
- I could hear his teeth grate with the convulsive actions of his jaws
- Hyde offers a ‘new province of knowledge’
- Hyde describes himself as the ‘unbelief of satan’
Chapter 9 important quotes part 2(Dr Lanyon’s narrative)
- his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter
- I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard
- the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours
chapter 10 important quotes part 1 (Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case)
- Jekyll had the ‘respect of the wise and good among my fellow-men’
- I concealed my pleasures
- man is not truly one, but truly two
- Jekyll was ‘radically both’ moral and immoral
- created Hyde so he’d no longer be ‘exposed to disgrace and petinance by the hand of this extraneous evil’
important quote chapter 10 part 2(Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case)
- hyde ‘bore the stamp, of lower elements in [Jekyll’s] soul’
- ‘I felt younger, lighter, happier in body’ (less developed)
- ‘first creature of that sort’ ( disassociated)
- Hydes evilness had left ‘an imprint of deformity and decay’
-‘ugly idol’
important quotes chapter 10 part 3(Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case)
-‘Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil’
- ‘The movement was wholly towards the worse’ (jekyll is the exact same)
- found the transformation comforting ‘like the thick cloak of edward Hyde’
important quotes chapter 10 part 4(Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case)
- called the uncontrolled transformation into Hyde ‘exquisitely icy’
- ‘the character of edward Hyde become irrevocably mine’
- ‘Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more of a son’s indifference’
- when he relapses ‘my devil had long been caged, he came out roaring’
important quotes chapter 10 part 5(Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case)
- ‘the animal within licking the chops of memories’
- ‘comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect’ (dude is sooo pretentious)
- ‘slime of pit seemed to utter cries and voices;
- ‘Jekyll was now fallen’ (lost sense of self)
- ‘I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end’ (lost to God)
