Jekyll and Hyde - Jekyll Flashcards
Chapter 2 - “it is more than 10 years..
..since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong in mind … Such unscientific balderdash”
Analysis on “it is more than 10 years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong in mind … Such unscientific balderdash”
- shows Lanyon’s disapproval of Jekyll’s experiments
- highlights the tension between ethical restraint and experimental ambition
Chapter 3 - “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man..
..of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness”
Chapter 3 - “an ignorant..
.. blatant pedant”
(about Lanyon)
Chapter 3 - “There came a..
..blackness about his eyes.”
(when Utterson mentioned Hyde to Jekyll)
Analysis on “there came a blackness about his eyes”
- indicates Jekyll’s inner turmoil and fear
- reveals Jekyll’s guilt and dread of Hyde
- Hyde embodies Jekyll’s darker desires
Chapter 5 - “looking..
..deadly sick”
Analysis on “looking deadly sick”
- suggests severe distress or guilt
- indicates Jekyll’s turmoil and conflict
Chapter 6 - “If I am the chief of..
..sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”
(in a letter to Utterson)
Analysis on “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”
- highlights Jekyll’s guilt and suffering
Chapter 6 - “the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn”
..Hyde had been withdrawn”
Analysis on “the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn”
- suggests relief and freedom
Chapter 7 - “The middle one of the three windows was half-way..
..open; and sitting close behind it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien”
(liminal space)
Chapter 7 - “like some..
..disconsolate prisoner”
Analysis on “like some disconsolate prisoner”
- depicts entrapment and despair
- confined by his dual identity
