Jekyll and Hyde quotes Flashcards
(37 cards)
C1 Utterson
“But he had an …”
approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds
C1 Hyde
“the man”
trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut.
C1 Jekyll vs Hyde:
“a really”
damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties,
C2 Utterson
“This document had”
long been the lawyer’s eyesore. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest
C2 Utterson. 2 quotes
“his imagination…”
“the figure in…”
“also was engaged, or rather enslaved”
“these two phases haunted the lawyer all night”
C2 Utterson’s reaction to Hyde
“Mr. Hyde was pale and”
dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness,
C2 Reputation -
“the ghost of…”
some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming
C3 Jekyll -
“The large handsome”
face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.
C4 Hyde -
“Mr. Hyde broke out”
of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And 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
C4 setting -
“A great…”
chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven
C4 Hyde -
“his family could”
nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely
C4 Setting -
“Mr. Hyde had only”
used a couple of rooms; but these were furnished with luxury and good taste
C5 Setting -
“It was the first time that the lawyer”
and
“three dusty”
“had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity”
“windows barred with iron”
C5 Jekyll -
“I was thinking”
of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed.”
C5 Utterson -
“he could not help a certain”
apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.”
C5 mystery/secrecy -
“there’s a rather singular…”
resemblance; the two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped.”
C6 Lanyon 2 quotes -
“He had his…”
and
“some deep”
“death-warrant written legibly upon his face. “
“seated terror of the mind”
C6 Jekyll
“You must suffer me…”
to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
C6 secrecy -
“Within there was another”
enclosure, likewise sealed, and marked upon the cover as “not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr. Henry Jekyll.”
C6 Utterson -
“A great curiosity came on”
the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.
C7 Jekyll
“the smile was struck out of his face”
and
“God forgive us, God forgive us”
and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.
C8 Jekyll
“Sir, if that was my”
master, why had he a mask upon his face?
C8 Utterson
“it is plain…”
and natural, hangs well together, and delivers us from all exorbitant alarms.”
C8 setting -
“the wood was tough”
and the fittings were of excellent workmanship and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet”
