Jekyll and Hyde Key Quotes Flashcards
1
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Moment 1
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- ‘sinister block of building’
- ‘street after street’ (repetition twice)
- ‘damned Juggernaut’
- ‘wild as harpies’
- ‘I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.‘
2
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Moment 2
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- ‘God bless me, the man seems hardly human!’
- ‘Something troglodytic’
- ‘if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face’
- ‘hissing intake of breath’
- ‘snarled aloud in a savage laugh’
- ‘haunting sense of unexpressed deformity’
3
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Moment 3
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- ‘an intelligent, reputable man’ (Jekyll)
- ‘a trifle sharply’ (Jekyll)
- ‘pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.’ (at the mention of Hyde)
4
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Moment 4
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- ‘brilliantly lit by the full moon’
- ‘great flame of anger’
- ‘stamping his foot’
- ‘like a madman’
- ‘very tough and heavy wood’ (Hyde has inhumane strength as he broke this stick)
Description of London
- ‘for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up’
- ‘slatternly passengers’ (prostitutes/unkempt individuals)
5
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Moment 5
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- ‘dissecting rooms’
- ‘a fire burned in the grate’
6
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Moment 6
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- ’ I shall never recover’ (Lanyon)
- ‘his flesh had fallen away’
- ‘trembling hand’
7
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Moment 7
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- ‘smile was struck out of his face and succeeded’
- ‘expression of such abject terror and despair’
- ‘as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.’
8
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Moment 8
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- ‘digging among the crates’
- ‘cry out like a rat’
- ‘that masked thing like a monkey jumped’
- ‘whipped’
- ‘it went down my spine like ice’
9
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Moment 9
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- ‘He sprang to it’
- ‘icy pang along my blood’
- ‘wrestling’ shows the physical struggle of repression
- ‘reddish hues’
- ‘small fumes of vapour’
10
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Moment 10
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- ‘the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged’
- ‘my lust of evil’
