Jekyll And Hyde (General) Flashcards
Hyde Quotes
… the man trampled calmly over the girl’s body and left her screaming on the ground.’
‘He is not easy to describe. 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. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.’ [Enfield describing Hyde]
It was a strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing, and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him. from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions.
‘…the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say’ [Utterson]
‘O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.’ [Utterson]
‘Evil… had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay.’ [Jekyll]
‘I was conscious of no repugnance, rather a leap of welcome’ [Jekyll]
‘I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because 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.’ [Jekyll]
“That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.’ [Jekyll]
Duality Quotes
“If he be Mr Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.” (C2)
“O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.” (Chapter 2)
“he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness.”
(Chapter 2)
“Ah that’s not Jekyll’s voice - it’s Hyde’s!” cried Utterson. “Down with the door, Poole!” (C8)
“…man is not truly one, but truly two.” (C10)
“I stood already committed to a profound duality of life.” (C10)
“I learned to recognised the thorough and primitive duality of man.” (C10)
“If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin” (C10)
Evil Quotes
“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.” (C1)
“He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.” (C1)
“My Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath.” (C2)
“God bless me, the man seems hardly human!” (C2)
“O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.” (C2)
“The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh.” (C2)
“the dark influence of Hyde” (C6)
“rather there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me - something seizing, surprising and revolting” (C9)
“I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it,” (C9)
“My life is shaken to the roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of day and night.” (C9)
“The creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll’s own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.” (C9)
Reputation Quotes
“No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.” (C1)
“We told that man we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should make his name stick from one end of London to the other.” (C1)
“I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,” says he, “Name your figure.” (C1)
“Here is another lesson to say nothing,” said he. “I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.” (C1)
“Come,” said Mr Utterson, “that is not fitting language.” (C2)
“But Mr Enfield only nodded his head very seriously, and walked on once more in silence.” (C7)
Beginning
‘Black Mail House’
“Killing being out of the questions, we did the next best”
^ ‘Make such a scandal out of this’ - responding to the child being trampled
‘Make his name stink from one end of London to the other’
‘If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that he should lose them’
“No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene…name your figure”
Middle
iron”
“Dingy, windowless structure” “Windows barred with
End
“Doggedly disregarding the question” - Poole did
“Utterson was surprised to receive a visit from Poole”
“Excellent lock”
Repression Quotes
“Why, money’s life to the man.” (C4)
“I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door if often shut even to you.” (C6)
“Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures” (C10)
“And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather a leap of welcome.” (C10)
“If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable.” (C10)
“And thus fortified, as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities of my position.” (C10)
