Jekyll and Hyde Quote Flashcards
Utterson: ‘I incline…
…to Cain’s heresy’
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Enfield: ‘I saw that…
…Sawbones turn sick and white with desire to kill him’
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Utterson: “I thought it was madness,” he said…
…as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, “ and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.”
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Utterson: ‘the man seems…
…hardly human! Something troglodytic…or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through and transfigures its clay continent?…
Satan’s signature upon a face.
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…to the earth.
Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him…
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“this mournful…
…reinvasion of darkness seemed in the lawyer’s eyes like a district of some city in a nightmare.”
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“the haunting…
…sense of unexpressed deformity”
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Jekyll: “You must suffer me…
…to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning”
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“____________ prisoner”
disconsolate
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[Jekyll’s] “expression of…
…”
…such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.”
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Utterson: “seized with…
…one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice hence the mask and the avoidance of his friends”
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Lanyon: “his face was so…
…ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason.”
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Jekyll: “I stood already committed…
…to a profound duplicity of life… man is not truly one, but truly two”
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Jekyll: ‘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. “
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Jekyll: “The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise…
…were as I have said undignified… But in the hands of Edward Hyde they soon began to turn towards the monstrous… his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another”
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