J+H quotes Flashcards
(11 cards)
J’s theory of man (3)
10-‘hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion + is one of the most plentiful springs of distress’
10-‘consciousness of the perenial war’
10-‘curse of mankind…incongruous faggots were thus bound together…agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling’
J’s failure (3)
10-sold a slave to my original evil
10-10 fold more wicked
10-delighted me like wine
human nature (3)
10-less robust + less developed
10-9/10s a life of effort, virtue + control
10-smaller, slighter + younger
class system
10-plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability
10-strip off these lendings + spring headlong into the sea of liberty
J the addict
10-I chose the better part + was found wanting in the strength to keep it
10-suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence
10-gradually but decidedly transferred… to the other side
U about Hyde
2-shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory
2-unknown disgust, loathing + fear
2-if i ever read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend
detective + mystery
2-‘wider labyrinths of lamplighted city’
4-‘fog rolled over the city’
4- ‘haunting sense of unexpressed deformity’
6-‘deep-seated terror’
6-‘darkly mysterious’
7-‘like some disconsolate prisoner’
9-‘something seizing, surprising and revolting’
scandal
1-‘we could make such a scandal’
5-‘I was thinking of my own character’
10-‘I concealed my pleasures’.
Violence, Terror and Horror
1-‘downright detestable’
1-‘brought the sweat out on me like running’
1-‘trampled calmly over the child’
2-‘snarled a savage laugh’
4-‘ape-like fury’
7-‘froze the very blood’
7-‘abject terror + despair’
8-‘hysterical whimpering’
8-‘severely contorted and still twitching’.
poverty vs privilege
-‘drove a thriving trade’
-‘its dingy neighbourhood’
-‘more notable by the high position of the victim’
-‘punishment and danger that I cannot name’
-‘disconsolate prisoner’
-‘your master would be far from pleased’
-‘my life, my honour, my reason’
-‘from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly’.