Jekyll & Hyde Flashcards
Jekyll: “… a … prisoner”
“Like a disconsolate prisoner”
Jekyll: “my … had long been …, he came out …”
“my devil had long been caged, he came out roaring”
Jekyll: “like a … boy … off these … and … headlong into the … of …”
“like a school boy strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty”
Jekyll: “the … of self … was … from head to …”
“the veil of self indulgence was rent from head to foot”
Wedding imagery - Jekyll gave his life away to the idea of being free and not oppressing desires - in love with it
The idea of not having to oppress desires took over his body
Veil drags behind Jekyll now as he explored
Jekyll: “my new … tempted me until I … into …”
“my new power tempted me until I fell into slavery”
Enfield (about Hyde): “like … dammed …”
“like some dammed juggernaut”
Juggernaut = links to Jagannath - Hindu god of universe - Hyde is more powerful than everything else
Utterson: “Satans … upon a … It is … that of your new …”
“Satans signature upon a face. It is one that of your new friend”
Setting: “A great … coloured … lowered over the …”
“A great chocolate coloured pall lowered over the heavens”
Setting: “the … moon, … on her …” “the … had … her”
“the pale moon, lying on her back” “the wind had tilted her”
Setting: “thin … in the …. were … themselves”
“thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves”
Punishing themselves since nature exposed the truth - this is in chapter 8 and in chapter 4, nature allows for Hyde to be seen purposefully “cloudless” and “brilliantly lit by the full moon” - nature is used in the novel as a symbol of secrecy and to hide the dark truths (e.g. fog motif)
Setting: “…less” “… lit by the full …”
“cloudless” “Brilliantly lit by the full moon”
Hyde: “… like fury”
“ape like fury”
Lanyon (talking about Jekyll): “such …. …”
“such unscientific balderdash”
Lanyon: “some … seated … of the …”
“some deep seated terror of the mind.”
Utterson: “the last … influence on the … of … men”
“the last good influence on the lives of down-going men”
Duality: “… duality of …”
“primitive duality of man”
Duality: “I have been … to such a dreadful … : that … is not truly …, but truly …”
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Duality: “these … … should be … …”
“these polar twins should be continuously struggling”
Polar and twins juxtaposes, contrast
Hyde: “trampled …”
“trampled calmly”
Secrecy: … motif (USE SETTING QUOTES TO BACK UP)
fog motif (USE SETTING QUOTES TO BACK UP)
Utterson: “a really … man” (Hyde) compared to “the very … of the …” (Jekyll)
“a really damnable man” (Hyde) compared to “the very pink of the proprieties” (Jekyll)
Secrecy, duality: “… inside an …”
“envelope inside an envelope”
Utterson: “I … to … heresy” “I let my … go to the …”
“I incline to Cain’s heresy” “I let my brother go to the devil”
Foreshadowing
Utterson inclines to evil nature
“I let my brother go to the devil” - when Cain killed Abel, he let Abel go to hell (most people think Abel went to heaven) (going against religion) - Utterson does this to Jekyll (sees Jekyll keep declining but does nothing) - shows Utterson as someone who acts on actions rather than what’s right, similar to cain who acted on jealousy rather than morality - traditional Victorian gentleman
Jekyll: “I felt …, …, … in the body.”
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in the body.”
Hyde is like a drug
Jekyll: “I … in the … [..] the … within me […] the … side a little …”
“I sat in the sun [..] the animal within me […] the spiritual side a little drowsed”
Sun = purity but animal = aggressiveness - constant battle between Jekyll and Hyde
Spiritual side = religion, the religious belief within him are declining meaning his beliefs in science are getting more prominent - Stevenson is presenting science as draining the religiousness out of someone, the two cannot coexist
Jekyll: “If I am the … of …, I am the chief of … also”
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”
Jekyll tried to be god, in the pursuit of freedom by creating Hyde - made Jekyll suffer - Jekyll has tried to be God (blasphemy and sinning) and has thus been punished - Stevenson saying people shouldn’t cross a certain boundary with science to a point where it becomes blasphemy
Utterson: “the … shone out in … to its … neighbourhood, like a fire in a …”
“the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest.”
Draws you to it - fires and warmth
Contrastingly, fire is associated with hell, so on that street, hellish activities occur
The dingy one is like a forest - dirty, disgusting, the street is more attractive
Duality: “the two … that … in the field of my …”
“the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness”
Lanyon: “My life is … to its …; […] the … terror … by me at all hours of the day and …; and I feel […] that I must …”
“My life is shaken to its roots; […] the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel […] that I must die”
Duality (said by Lanyon): “pale and …, and half …, and … before him with his …, like a man … from …”
“pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death”
Duality (said by Enfield): “I was … from some … at the end of the …, about … o clock of a … winter …”
“I was coming from some place at the end of the world, about three o clock of a black winter morning”
Even those who seem respectable are are gentlemen have a secret side
SIGUMND FRUID: CONTEXT
OUR BRAIN = ICEBERG
GOOD PART OF BRAIN = TIP OF ICEBERG
THE DEPTH AND TRUTH OF ICEBERG = ANIMALISTIC SIDE
DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
PHYSIOGNOMY: CONEXT
THE WAY IN WHICH SOMEONE LOOKS DEFINES THEIR INTERNAL NATURE - “THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WTIH HIS APPEARANCE”
