Jekyll and Hyde Quotations - C10 Flashcards
1
Q
‘I ________ my pleasures’
A
‘I concealed my pleasures’
- Dr Jekyll’s beginnings of his duality - he hid his true self
2
Q
‘Those _________ of good and ___ which ______ and compound man’s ____ nature’
A
‘Those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature’
- Reference to the theme of good vs evil and duality
3
Q
‘________ duality of man’
A
‘Primitive duality of man’
- ‘primitive’ - the original, most basic humans have layers - Darwin - devolution
4
Q
‘Man is not _____ one, but truly ___’
A
‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’
- Dr Jekyll’s revaluation of duality - he acknowledges that it is something that ultimately destroys him
5
Q
‘The c____ of m______’
A
‘The curse of mankind’
- Jekyll degrades society
- Evil is everywhere - us humans are the origin
6
Q
‘the ________ womb of __________’
A
‘The agonised womb of consciousness’
- Dr Jekyll describes a pained metaphor of a pregnant woman
- him and Hyde originate from the same body, but are ‘polar twins’ - perhaps Stevenson is telling us that we all have a Hyde within us
