Key Quotes

Question 1

Utterson: ‘I incline….

Answer 1

Utterson: ‘I incline to Cain’s heresy’

Beginning of book

Question 2

‘I thought it was madness’……

Answer 2

‘I thought it was madness’ he [Mr. Utterson ] said as he replaced the obnoxious paper [the will] in the safe, and now I begin to fear it is disgrace

Question 3

the man [Mr Hyde] seems hardly…..

Answer 3

The man [Mr Hyde] seems hardly human! Something trolodytic… or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through and transfigured its clay continent? …! Satan’s signature upon a face.

Question 4

Mr Hyde broke…

Answer 4

Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth.

Question 5

this mournful reinvasion….

Answer 5

this mournful reinvasion of darkness seemed in the lawyer’s eyes like a district of some city in a nightmare.

Question 6

the haunting….

Answer 6

the haunting sense of an unexpressed deformity

Question 7

You must suffer me…..

Answer 7

You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning

Jekyll chapter 6

Question 8

disconsolate prisoner……

Answer 8

disconsolate prisoner, [Jekyll’s] expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the gentlemen below.

Question 9

I saw that…..

Answer 9

I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with desire to kill him

Enfield chapter 1

Question 10

seized with one of those…….

Answer 10

seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and avoidance of his friends

Question 11

Landon: “his face…..

Answer 11

Lanyon: “his face was so ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason.”

Question 12

I stood already…..

Answer 12

I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life… man is not truly one, but truly two

Jekyll chapter 10

Question 13

all human beings….

Answer 13

all human beings as we meet them are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind was pure evil

Question 14

The pleasures which i made….

Answer 14

The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were as I have said undignified… But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn towards the monstrous… his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another

Jekyll chapter 10

Question 15

I was slowly losing hold…

Answer 15

I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self… Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.

Jekyll chapter 10

Question 16

an ordinary secret….

Answer 16

an ordinary secret sinner… the fall seemed natural

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Question 17

He I say…

Answer 17

He I say- I cannot say I. That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

Question 18

solely occupied….

Answer 18

solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

Jekyll chapter 10