Jekyll Quotes Flashcards
Chapter 1 quotes
“the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the properties, celebrated too” (Entfield elluding to Jekyll)
Chapter 2 quotes
“you and I must be the oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has?” (Utterson talking to Lanyon)
“He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake’s sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man.” (Lanyon about Jekyll)
“Such unscientific balderdash,” (Lanyon talking about Jekyll’s experiments)
Chapter 3 quotes
“He was a well made smooth faced man of fifty” (Narration)
“You do not understand my position..it’s a very strange one.” (Jekyll to Utterson)
“The large, handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. [at the mention of Hyde]” (Narration)
“I tell you one thing, the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde.” (Jekyll to Utterson)
Chapter 5 quotes
“there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr Jekyll, looking deadly sick” (Narration)
“He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.” (Narration)
“I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am quite done with him.” (Jekyll)
“Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!” (Utterson’s realization)
Chapter 6 quotes
“I am quite done with that person [Jekyll]; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.” (Lanyon to Utterson)
“I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion;” (Jekyll to Utterson)
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” (Jekyll to Utterson)
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” (Jekyll to Utterson)
Chapter 7 quotes
“[Jekyll sat] like some disconsolate prisoner [at the window].” (Narration)
“The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.” (Narration about Jekyll’s transformation)
Chapter 9 quotes
“O God! I screamed, and O God! again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll!” (Lanyon about Jekyll’s transformation)
Chapter 10 quotes (all said by Jekyll)
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two”
“I learned to recognize the thorough and primative duality of man”
“My new power tempted me until I fell into slavery”
“I began to profit by the strange immunities of my position”
“I mauled the unresisting body tasting delight with every blow”
“I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.” (final words in confession)
List some quotes from Jekyll about how he felt when he turned into Hyde at first.
“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body”
“I knew myself at first breath of this new life to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil;”
“This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human”
“I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a school-boy, strip off these lendings and sprint headlong into a sea of liberty.”
What does Jekyll experience when he drinks the potion that turns him into Hyde?
“a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death”
What does Jekyll experience when he drinks the potion that turns him into Hyde?
“a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death”
