Jekyll And Hyde Flashcards
with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim
under foot and hailing down a storm of blows
The two hands
Are in many points identical
If I am the chief of sinners
I am the chief of sufferers also
Whatever it is that lives in that cabinet has
Been crying out for some sort of medicine.
“A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror,
rang from the cabinet
His face became suddenly black
And his features seemed to melt and alter
“Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in
no sense a hypocrite;
both sides of me were in dead earnest
I have been doomed to such a dreadful
shipwreck:
that man is not truly one, but truly two.
like a district of some
City in a nightmare
Had his death warrant
Written legibly upon his face
Jekyll is sitting up in his cabinet “like
Some disconsolate prisoner”
Hyde was “dressed in
Clothes far too large for him.
bound to the most narrow and material views,
you have denied the virtue of transcendental
medicine
“like a man restored from death” …
“my soul sickened at it”
“Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the
acts of Edward Hyde…
It was Hyde, after all,
and Hyde alone, that was guilty”
I learned to recognise the thorough
And primitive duality of man
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last;
and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil:
and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
“Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession,
I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”
“O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read
Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged
countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse;
There is something wrong with his appearance;
something displeasing, something downright detestable.
I never saw a man I
so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.
I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness,
even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both;
And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought,
a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
I began to be aware of a change in the temper of my thoughts,
a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of obligation.
Hence it came about…
That I concealed my pleasures.
