Jekyll & Hyde Flashcards
Jekyll 1 - Utterson mentions Hyde
‘Every mark of capacity and kindness’
Talks about ‘when I am no longer here’
‘Grew pale to the lips’ at the mention of Hyde’s name
Jekyll 2 - reaction to Carew’s murder
He speaks in a ‘feverish manner’
He looks ‘deadly sick’
‘He held out a cold hand’ and spoke in a ‘changed voice’
Jekyll 3 - Incident at the window
Fear 1
Claims ‘I am very low’
Only a ‘glimpse’ is necessary to provoke a reaction from Utterson
A look of ‘abject terror and despair’
Hyde 1 - trampling the girl
He was ‘stumping along’ when he ‘trampled calmly over’ her
The narrator said he had ‘sweat […] running’
Hyde 2 - Carew murder case
The maid thought she was ‘romantically given’
He ‘hailed down a storm of blows’ in his ‘ape-like fury’ and the victim’s ‘bones were audibly shattered’
Hyde 3 - Hyde’s suicide
Supernatural 1
The ‘door leaped against the lock’ when Utterson tried to enter
Hyde was ‘sorely contorted’ and ‘twitching’
‘Mere animal terror’
Lanyon 1 - beginning of text
Science 1 / supernatural 3
Despite being ‘hearty, healthy’ he has a ‘spirt of temper’ about Jekyll’s ‘unscientific balderdash’
Lanyon 2 - Chapter 6
Fear 2
His ‘flesh had fallen away’ and he had his ‘death-warrant upon his face’
He claims he is a ‘doomed man’
Lanyon 3 - Lanyon’s narrative
The incident ‘whetted my curiosity’ but caused an ‘icy pang along my blood’
He says ‘my days are numbered’
Poole 1 - first appearance
Science 2
The ‘well-dressed elderly servant’ tells Utterson that Hyde ‘comes and goes by the laboratory’
Poole 2 - seeking Utterson’s help
Fear 3
His ‘manner was altered’ as he was ‘doggedly disregarding the question’
Duality 1 - Jekyll’s final letter
Jekyll 4
Jekyll writes that ‘man is not truly one but truly two’
‘Good and ill which […] compound man’s dual nature’
‘Polar twins […] continuously struggling’
Duality 3 - Story of the Door - setting
The first street is described as ‘a fire in a forest’ with a ‘general cleanliness and gaiety of note’
The second ‘a certain sinister block of building thrust forward’ with a ‘blistered and disdained’ door
Repression 1 - Jekyll’s final letter
Supernatural/religion - 2
Hyde 4
‘My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring’
‘Concealed my pleasures […] profound duplicity of life’
Repression 2 - Utterson’s dinner party
Utterson 1
The narrator ironically mentions the ‘expense and strain’ of their carefree mood
J and U start speaking ‘ruthlessly’ and ‘sharply’ when ‘distasteful’ topics arise
