Quotations Flashcards
Lanyon describing Jekyll change in character.
“He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind,”
Describing Jekyll’s transformation.
“The large, handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the lips and there came a blackness about his eyes”
Comparing Hyde to a monkey
“ape-like fury”
Religious imagery of Hyde being a devilish character.
“Black, sneering coolness/like Satan”
Describing Mr.Hyde appearance.
“haunting sense of deformity”
How Jekyll describes his inner feelings of duality.
“my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
Ultimate conclusion of the novel
“Man is not truly one but truly two”
“all human beings are commingled out of good and evil”
How Jekyll views Hyde
“disconsolate prisoner”
disconsolate means very unhappy
Setting
“nocturnal city”
“fog rolled over”
“sordid negligence” (undergone a long period of neglect)
“fog slept above the drowned city”
Lanyon reaction to Jekyll experiments
“my soul sickened at it…I must die”
“Lanyon declared himself a doomed man”
Mr Utterson decription
“backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary”
What does backward in sentiment mean?
Don’t show emotions.
Jekyll - duality of man
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man.”
Duality in London
“The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood”
Ultimate conclusion by Jekyll
Analysis
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Recognises that this will ultimately destroy him.
