Theme of Knowledge Flashcards
Semantic field of rhetorical questions from Hyde taunting Lanyon
“Will you be wise? Will you be guided? Will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand, and to go forth from your house without further parley?”
Knowledge as tempting
“Or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?”
“You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone”
Hyde taunting Lanyon about being a traditional scientist
“You who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided you superiors - behold”
Darwinism: Hyde presented as a prehistoric man
“The man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic!”
“That masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals”
“Snarled aloud into a savage laugh”
“A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet”
Too much knowledge is dangerous
“By whose partial discovery, I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck”
