J&H BME Flashcards
Beginning quotes:
1-3
Chapter 1
“Cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow loveable.”
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming”
“it was like some damned Juggernaut”
Chapter 2
“A volume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed”
“an impression of deformity”
Chapter 3
“the large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes”
Middle quotes:
4-7
Chapter 4
“The next moment”
“with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered”
a “chocolate pall, lowered over heaven”
Chapter 5
“A yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting-rooms”
“his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical”
Chapter 6
“He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away.”
Chapter 7
“The smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair”
“froze the very blood of the two gentlemen”
End quotes:
8-9
Chapter 8
“When that masked like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet, it went down my spine like ice…I give you my bible-word it was Mr Hyde!”
“One lay beside the tea things open”
“Utterson was amazed to find…a copy of a pious work”
“Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.”
Chapter 9
“The phial…half full of blood-red liquor”
“was highly pungent”
“seemed” to contain “phosphorous and some volatile ether.”
“something abnormal and misbegotten” about
“the creature that now faced me - something seizing, surprising and revolting”
” ‘O God!’ I screamed, and ‘O God!’ again and again.”
“Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil”
End quotes:
10
Chapter 10
Jekyll “drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
“Racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death”
“The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition.”
“I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty”
“I cannot say, I. That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred”
