✅Jekyll Flashcards
“He was no less distinguished for religion”
Shows Jekyll difficult relationship with religion, he previously studied religious texts but appeared to rejected it.
“Had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God”
Jekyll has turned to God for redemption after realising his mistakes.
“Charitable man”
Image of a Jekyll being a generous man.
“I concealed my pleasures”
Suppressed his sinful side in order to gain social respect.
“My devil had long been changed, he came out roaring”
Jekyll’s inner ‘devil’ is a manifestation of his deeper desires also suggesting how it opposes Christian ideology. Also suggests how Hyde is like the devil.
“Blot out the immaterial tabernacle I looked to change”
Comes from semantic field of religion showing how Jekyll’s experiment is encroaching on God’s territory.
“I was no more myself when I laid aside the restraint and plunged into shame”
Jekyll failed in splitting good and bad and allowed his evil to thrive.
“Man is not truly one but truly two”
Jekyll believes in duality and human psyche can be split.
“I was a driven to reflect deeply inveterately on that hard law of life”
Refers to common concept of guilt, conscience and sin.
“Strong glow of courage”
Suggests that Jekyll is erratic showing he was aware of the risks he was taking.
“I bring the,ire of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end”
The novella ends on a sad note creating sympathy for Jekyll.
“This is the last time… that Henry Jekyll can think his own thoughts”
Jekyll eventually permanently lost control over himself.
“Smooth-faced man of fifty”
Jekyll’s external appearance doesn’t reflect his internal truth.
