Jekyll and Hyde quotations Flashcards
Describing Hyde
“Like…
some damned juggernaut”
Describing Hyde
“With a…
hissing intake of breath”
Describing Hyde
“Snarled aloud into…
a savage laugh”
Describing Hyde
“Ape…
like fury”
Jekyll describing Hyde
“My devil had…
long been caged, he came out roaring”
Jekyll’s speech
“Plunged…
in shame”
Jekyll’s speech
“Perennial…
war among my members”
Jekyll
“Two natures…
that contended in the field of my consciousness”
Jekyll describing sin
“Doom and burden of our life”
“Extraneous evil”
Duality theme quote in Jekyll’s final speech?
“Profound duality”
Description of door (setting)
“The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained”
Description of setting
“Fog rolled over the city […]…
brilliantly lit by the full moon”
Description of setting
“In spite of…
the low growl of London from all around”
Jekyll
“Hence it came…
about I concealed my pleasures”
Description of setting
“A great chocolate-…
coloured pall lowered over heaven”
Description of setting
“A certain sinister block of…
building thrust itself forward”
Description of setting
“Rich, lurid brown, like
the light of some strange conflagration”
Description of setting
“Fog would be quite broken up, and…
a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths”
Utterson about Jekyll
“He is in…
deep waters”
Hyde beating Carew
“Hailing down…
a storm of blows”
Religious contrast between Jekyll and Hyde
J: “Distinguished for religion”
H: “Satan’s signature upon a face”
Jekyll
“In the agonised…
womb of consciousness”
Utterson
“Last good influence…
of downgoing men”
Utterson
“Lean, long…
dusty, dreary and yet somehow loveable”
