quotes Flashcards
CH1 PG3
On Mr Utterson
‘cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable’
CH1 PG5
Enfield on Hyde
‘He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave one look, so ugly that it brought out sweat on me like running.’
CH2 PG10
Utterson on Hyde
‘If he be Mr Hyde,’ he had thought, ‘I shall be Mr Seek.’
CH2 PG 12
Utterson of Hyde
‘Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile.’
CH3 PG15
Jekyll, reassuring Utterson
“The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.”
CH4 PG16
Description of Hyde
‘And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot.’
CH5 PG19
Description of Jekyll
‘Utterson I swear to God,’ cried the doctor, ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end.’
CH6 PG24
Jekyll to Utterson
‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.’
CH7 P33
When Utterson broke down the door to reveal Hyde
‘A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.’
CH8 P41
Lanyon’s letter to Utterson
‘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!’
CH9 P49
Jekyll on the murder of Carew
‘My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring.’
CH9 PG51
Jekyll describes how Hyde began to take over
‘this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. And yet I was not alarmed; the fall seemed natural, like a return to the old days before I had made discovery.’
CH2 PG12
Utterson on Hyde
‘God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?’ Or could it be the old story of Dr Fell?’
CH1 PG4
Enfield describing Hyde
‘It was like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.’
CH1 PG4
Enfield retelling the story
‘for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.’
