Quotes Flashcards
Jekyll
After the murder of Carew, Jekyll looks ‘deathly sick’
Jekyll
Jekyll at his laboratory window ‘like some disconsolate prisoner’
Jekyll
‘Perennial war among my members’
Jekyll
Being Hyde makes him feel like he can ‘spring headlong into the sea of liberty’
Jekyll
‘My new power tempted me until I fell into slavery’
Jekyll
My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring
Jekyll
The veil of self indulgence was rent from head to foot
Jekyll
‘I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self’
Hyde
“it was hellish to see; it wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut”
Hyde
“the man trampled calmly over the child’s body”
Hyde
‘He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity’
Hyde
“…with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot”
Hyde
Raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde
Hyde
Edward Hyde had grown in stature
Hyde
‘His every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity’
Lanyon
Described as having a ‘genial’ manner based on ‘genuine feeling’
Lanyon
‘hearty, healthy and dapper’
Lanyon
Talking about Jekyll: “He began to go wrong, wrong in mind…. Such unscientific
balderdash.”
Lanyon
“The rosy man had grown pale” which seemed to indicate “some deep-seated
terror of the mind.”
Jekyll
Well-made smooth-faced man…with perhaps something
of a slyish cast
