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Chapter 6 - “the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn”
..Hyde had been withdrawn”
Analysis on “the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn”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
Chapter 7 - “the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression..
..of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.”
Chapter 10 - “Man is not truly one, but truly two”
Analysis on “Man is not truly one, but truly two”
- suggests duality in human nature
