J + H Flashcards
(98 cards)
1
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N 1.3
utterson’s face
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“a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile”
N 1.3
2
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N 1.3
utterson’s characteristics
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“cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse”
N 1.3
3
Q
N 1.3
how others found Utterson
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“somehow lovable”
N 1.3
4
Q
N 1,3
how Utterson treated himself
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“austere with himself”
N 1.3
5
Q
N 1.3
what U did when he was alone
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“drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages”
N 1.3
6
Q
N 1.3
gd quality of Utterson
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“inclined to help rather than to reprove.”
N 1.3
7
Q
N 1.3
what was U usually known as. shows his loyalty
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“last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.”
N 1.3
8
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N 1.4
description of back lab entrance to J’s house
4
(block of building, windows, door, windows)
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- “a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street.”
- “showed no window”
- door of house “was equipped with neither bell nor knocker”
- “the windows are always shut, but they’re clean.” – E 1.6
N 1.4
9
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E 1.4
description of trampling
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- “the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.”
- “it was hellish to see.”
E 1.4
10
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E 1.5
initial Hyde description
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“It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.”
E 1.5
11
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E 1.5
Enfield scared of Hyde
(cool, ugly look, sweat)
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“He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.”
E 1.5
12
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Enfield hates Hyde
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- “I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.” – E 1.5
13
Q
sawbones
2
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- “as emotional as a bagpipe.” – description of doctor – E 1.5
- “Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him.” – E 1.5
14
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Enfield and Hyde reputation
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- “make his name stink from one end of London to the other.” – what Enfield threatens to do to Hyde – E 1.5
15
Q
Hyde’s reaction
2
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- “black sneering coolness” – E 1.5
- “like Satan.” – E 1.5
16
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J initial description
2
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- “the very pink of the proprieties” – E 1.6
- “one of your fellows who do what they call good.” – E 1.6
17
Q
what E thinks has happened to J
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- “Blackmail” – E 1.6
18
Q
enfield’s repuation rule
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- “the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.” – E 1.6
19
Q
E 1.7
Hyde description
2
(something amiss, deformity)
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- “He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.” – E 1.7
- “he gives a strong feeling of deformity,” – E 1.7
20
Q
Enfield reputation
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- “I am ashamed of my long tongue.” – E 1.7
21
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Lanyon description
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- “a hearty healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous decided manner.” – N 2.8
22
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L and J drifted apart
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- “it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me.” – Utterson didn’t know about this – not a great friend – L 2.9
23
Q
what made L and J drift apart
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- “Such unscientific balderdash, would have estranged Damon and Pythias.” – L 2.9
24
Q
Utterson can’t sleep
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- “besieged by questions.” – Utterson can’t sleep because he is so curious about this Hyde – N 2.9
25
Utterson truth seeker
* “If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek.” – U 2.10
26
Hyde animalistic on 1st meeting w/U
* “Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath.”
| N 2.11
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Utterson's initial thoughts of Hyde
| 3
* “Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation,” – N 2.12
* “troglodytic,” – U 2.12
* “if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend!” – U 2.12
28
how U believes J is in this situation with H
* “the ghost of some old sin,”
| U 2.13
29
J initial description
* “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps,” – N 3.14
30
what J calls Lanyon
* “hide-bound pedant,” – J 3.14
31
U trying to get J to open up to help him
* “Jekyll, you know me: I am a man to be trusted.” – U 3.14
32
how H killed Sir Danvers Carew
* “with ape-like fury,” – N 4.16
* “the bones were audibly shattered” – N 4.16
33
# N 5.19
description of J's house, links to prev. description of house
| 2
* “dingy windowless structure” – N 5.19
* “door covered with red baize” – how the door to Jekyll’s cabinet is described – N 5.19
## Footnote
red-baize used for soundproofing
34
J false promise to U
* “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.” – J 5.19
35
why J says he gives letter of H dipping to U. reputation
* “I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed.” – J 5.20
36
U defending J's rep. after finding out he lying
"I wouldn't speak of this note" - U 5.22
"Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!" - U 5.22
37
J turning around in life after Carew's murder
* “he was now no less distinguished for religion.” – Jekyll - N 6.22
38
description of L after he witnessed transformation
* “He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face.” – Lanyon – N 6.23
39
Lanyon and J now opps again
* “I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.” – L 6.23
40
J shutting himself up in his cabinet
* “I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion.” – J 6.24
41
J feels sorry for himself
* “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” – J 6.24
42
why Utterson didn’t open Lanyon’s letter early
* “professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations” - N 6.25
43
# U 6.25
curiousity U
* “It is one thing to mortify curiousity, another to conquer it.” - U 6.25
44
what U describes J's house as
* “house of voluntary bondage,” – Jekyll’s house – N 6.25
45
U worried abt J
* “I am uneasy about poor Jekyll;” – U 7.25
46
what U thinks of J
* “disconsolate prisoner” - N 7.26
47
the second J's happy, H comes back
* “the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.” - N 7.26
48
# N 7.26
secrecy
## Footnote
(window)
* “the window was instantly thrust down” – N 7.26
49
# N 7.26
Victorian reputation (U and E after seeing J transform into H in the window)
* “they turned and left the court without a word.” – N 7.26
50
Poole thinking within the boundaries of reason still
* “I think there’s been foul play” – Poole 8.27
51
# N 8.27
foreshadowing to J's fate on the way to his crib
| 2
* “Mr Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted.” – like J – N 8.27
* “the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along the railing.” - like J – N 8.27
52
# U 8.28
U clinging to reputation in front of J's servants
* “your master would be far from pleased.” – U 8.28
53
U rational - can't comprehend supernatural
* “That won’t hold water; it doesn’t commend itself to reason.” – U 8.29
54
H taking over J as he writing letter
* “with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer’s emotion had broken loose. ‘For God’s sake,’ he had added, ‘find me some of the old’” – N 8.29
55
# Poole 8.30
Poole confused abt J's actions - he suspects for these reasons, J has been murdered
* “why had he a mask upon his face?" – Poole 8.30
* "why did he cry out like a rat and run from me?” – Poole 8.30
56
U clinging to reason
* Jekyll “is plainly seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer” – U 8.30
57
U trying to save J's rep. even after his death
* “I would say nothing of this paper. If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit.” – U 8.35
58
# 9.36
Jekyll and Lanyon have different views of how close they are to each other.
| 2
* “my colleague and old school-companion” – what he describes J as – L 9.36
* “one of my oldest friends” – what J describes L as – J 9.36
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J's manipulation of L
| 4
## Footnote
(affection, left hand, tonight, blackness)
* “I cannot remember, at least on my side, any break in our affection.” – J 9.36
* “There was never a day when, if you had said to me, ‘Jekyll, my life, my honour, my reason, depend upon you,’ I would not have sacrificed my fortune or my left hand to help you.” – manipulative - J 9.36
* “if you fail me tonight, I am lost.” – J 9.36
* “Think of me at this hour, in a strange place, labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy can exaggerate” – J 9.37
60
Lanyon's Victorian honour
* “I felt bound to do as he requested.” – L 9.37
61
L is a scientific fellow (recognises some ingredients in J's drawer)
* “a simple crystalline salt of a white colour. The phial… might have been about half full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell, and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.” – L 9.38
62
L still thinks purely in material, so can't fully grasp all ingredients in drawer
* “At the other ingredients I could make no guess.” – L 9.38
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# L 9.38
L's view of J scientifically
* “a series of experiments that had led (like too many of Jekyll’s investigations) to no end of practical usefulness.” – L 9.38
64
L's apprehension and confusion before H arrives at his crib
* “How could the presence of these articles in my house affect either the honour, the sanity, or the life of my flighty colleague?” – L 9.38
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L's medical examination of H
## Footnote
(muscles, face)
* “remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution.” – L 9.39
66
what L describes H as
* “disgustful curiosity” – what he describes H as - L 9.39
* “the creature” – what he describes H as - L 9.39
67
Hyde's lack of manners show how he ain't a Victorian gentleman
* “‘Have you got it?’ he cried. ‘Have you got it?’” – H 9.39
68
Hyde is about to burst and fucking murder Lanyon
* “I could see, in spite of his collected manner, that he was wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria” – L 9.40
69
L is scared but tries to remain courageous
* “Compose yourself” – L 9.40
70
L is a slave to his curiosity
* “Will you be wise? ...or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you?” – H 9.40
71
what H offers L
* “a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you… and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.” – H 9.40
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J's transformation in front of L
## Footnote
(3 parts)
* “you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided you superiors - behold!” – Lanyon – J 9.41
73
Lanyon's worldview shattered
* “My life is shaken to its roots” – L 9.41
74
J born into high status. reputation
* “I was born in the year 18- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts,…fond of the respect of the wise.” – J 10.41
75
J already putting up a facade before all this transcendental medicine business
* "I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life." - J 10.42
76
cold line abt duality of man
* “man is not truly one, but truly two.” – J 10.42
77
what J believed was best course of action with this whole duality issue
* “If each could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable” – J 10.42
78
J hates duality
* “It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together” – J 10.43
79
temptation is what led him to Hyde
* “the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.” – J 10.43
80
first reaction to Hyde
* “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” – J 10.44
81
# J 10.44
other members of Jekyll's household are prisoners
* “the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber” – J 10.44
82
duality of human beings vs Hyde
* "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." - J 10
83
J theorises how if he had had gd thoughts when taking the potion, he would have transformed into his gd side not Hyde
* “Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit…I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend.” – J 10.45
84
J preparing to become Hyde fr
* “I made my preparations with the most studious care.” – J 10.45
85
J soaking in glory of being able to transform into H
* “Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures.” – J 10.46
86
J coping. blaming crimes on H.
* "It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty." - J 10.46
87
# J 10.48
Hyde first begins gaining power over J after he had transformed into Hyde in his sleep
* “I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.” – J 10.48
88
differences in J and H in their relationship. J obsessed w Hyde while Hyde just uses J to not get arrested and executed
* “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.” – J 10.48
89
J proves yet again that he's addicted to Hyde by not destroying whatever remnants of Hyde laid behind. then he takes potion again
* “I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde” – J 10.49
* “in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.” – J 10.49
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# J 10.49
sir danvers carew murder from J's perspective
| 2
* "My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring" - J 10.49
* “I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow” – J 10.49
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# J 10.50
Jekyll trying to redeem his past after Carew's murder
* “I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past” – J 10.50
92
Hyde was eager to get back out
* “the animal within me licking the chops of memory” – J 10.51
93
Hyde was able to think rationally too and calm himself down. not completely animalistic
* “the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will” – J 10.52
94
J no longer afraid of death. just of the atrocities H would commit
* “It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.” – J 10.52
95
Hyde hated J as he had to use him only to just escape the authorities. He wasn't the mc of his body
* “His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide” – Hyde – J 10.53
96
Hyde being animalistic and trying to ruin J
* “the apelike tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father” – J 10.54
97
Hyde is afraid of death. J feels sorry for him
* “he fears my power to cut him off by suicide” – J 10.54
* “I find it in my heart to pity him.” – J 10.54
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J's final words
* “I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.” – J 10.54
