Jekyll and Hyde quotes Flashcards
Finish the quote (about Jekyll’s house)
“the doctor had”
bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon
Finish the quote (duality in Jekyll’s house)
“he eyed”
the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity
Finish the quote (going from respectable to savage)
“plod in the public eye”
with a load of genial respectability and in a moment, like a school boy, strip of these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty
Finish the quote (Jekyll trapped)
“three”
dusty windows barred with iron
Finish the quote
“house of “
voluntary bondage
Finish the quote
“the large handsome”
face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness about his eyes
Finish the quote (jekyll not a hypocrite)
“ I was in no sense”
a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest
Finish the quote (Jekyll describes killing Danvers)
“the spirit of hell”
awoke in me and raged. transported in glee I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight in every blow
Finish the quote (effects of supressing Hyde)
“My devil”
had been long caged and came out raging
Finish the quote (Jekyll caring about his reputation) “I was thinking”
“of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed”
Finish the quote (Religious aspect of Jekyll’s confession) “it was as an”
“ordinary sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation”
Finish the quote (Hyde striking something moral inside of the men) “believe the”
“lie much deeper in the nature of man, and turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred”
Finish the quote (suffering in repression)
“Jekyll would”
“suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence”
Finish the quote (the door to Jekyll’s is hard to break)
“the wood was tough”
“and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet.”
Finish the quote (Hyde’s door not wanting to be discovered) “the door”
“which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained”
Finish the quote (fog–>repression)
“muffle”
“and smother of these fallen clouds”
Finish the quote (duality between Jekyll and Hyde) “a really damnable man”
“and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties”
Finish the quote (Utterson not being judgemental) “the last”
“good influence in the lives of downgoing men”
Finish the quote (Hyde disappearing)
“his family could”
nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely, as common observers will
Finish the quote, Lanyon witnessing the transformation
“your sight”
shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.
Finish the quote, Poole describing the physical effect Hyde has on people
“there was something queer about that gentleman–”
something that gave a man a turn–I don’t know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin.
Finish the quote, contradictory nature of Hyde
“he had borne himself”
to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness
Finish the quote, duality as curse of mankind
“that in the agonised womb”
of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling
Finish the quote, Jekyll afraid of himself
“It was no longer”
the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me
Finish the quote, Lanyon’s reaction to the truth
“My life is shaken to its roots”
sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night
Finish the quote, Jekyll and the letter
“Henry Jekyll forge”
for a murderer!”
Finish the quote, Utterson on Jekyll’s will
“This document had long”
been the lawyer’s eyesore. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life
