Jekyll and Hyde Quotes

Question 1

I learned to recognize the…

Answer 1

I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man.

Question 2

…even if i could rightly be said to be either,

Answer 2

…even if i could rightly be said to be either, it was only because i was radically both.

Question 3

I stood already committed….

Answer 3

I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life

Question 4

I have been doomed to such….

Answer 4

I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one but truly two

Question 5

The doctor had bought the house…

Answer 5

The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon.

Question 6

…as he crossed the theatre…

Answer 6

…as he crossed the theater once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent.

Question 7

[It was] temptation…

Answer 7

[It was] temptation of a discovery so singular and profound.

Question 8

[Jekyll’s scientific work leads]….

Answer 8

[Jekyll’s scientific work leads] wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental.

Question 9

Scientific words

Answer 9

Traces - Various - Some white salt - Some strange things.

Question 10

“I incline to Cain’s heresy….”

Answer 10

“I incline to Cain’s heresy”, he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”.

Question 11

On the subject of sin:[he]…

Answer 11

On the subject of sin: [he] regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.

Question 12

He came out of his seclusion….

Answer 12

He came out of his seclusion… became once more the familiar guest and entertainer.

Question 13

He was now no less…

Answer 13

He was now no less distinguished for religion.

Question 14

…A large, well-made….

Answer 14

A large, well-made, smooth-faced man of 50, with something of a slyish cast.

Question 15

“I am very low, Utterson…”

Answer 15

“I am very low, Utterson” replied the doctor drearily; “Very low”.

Question 16

An expression of such…

Answer 16

An expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.

Question 17

I struck in no more reasonable spirit….

Answer 17

I struck in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything.

Question 18

If he is Mr Hyde…

Answer 18

If he is Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek.

Question 19

A rugged countenance…

Answer 19

A rugged countenance that was never lightened by a smile.

Question 20

The last good influence…

Answer 20

The last good influence in the lives of down-going men.

Question 21

I shall consider it ….

Answer 21

I shall consider it my duty to break in that door.

Question 22

Amen….

Answer 22

Amen, Poole.

Question 23

A singularly strong ….

Answer 23

A singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity.

Question 24

Pure….

Answer 24

Pure evil.

Question 25

....with a kind of black sneering coolness....

Answer 25

...with a kind of black sneering coolness - frightened too, I could see that - but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan

Question 26

The man trampled calmly...

Answer 26

The man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground

Question 27

It wasn't like a man....

Answer 27

It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut

Question 28

With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot....

Answer 28

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, and the body jumped upon the roadway.

Question 29

...As there was something abnormal and misbegotten...

Answer 29

As there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me.