Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for reviewing key themes and concepts in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Chapter 1

"a really damnable man.. The very pink of proprieties,"

"It wasn't like man, it was like some damned juggernaut,"

"Trampled calmly over the child's body."

"Shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood,"

"the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence,"

"Though he enjoyed the theatre .. had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years."

"I saw that sawbones turn sick and white with desire to kill him."

"Make his name stink from one end of London to the other."

"The door was very strong, the lock excellent."

Chapter 2

"gave an impression of deformity."

"He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind."

"Appeared to hesitate.. upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an air of defiance.”

"The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh;"

"Unscientific balderdash."

"enough to estrange Damon and Pythias."

Chapter 3

‘with something of a slyish cast.’

‘every mark of capacity and kindness.’

‘there came a blackness about his eyes.’

Chapter 4

"With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim underfoot."

"Bones were audibly shattered."

"A great flame of anger... like a madman."

“it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken.”

“at the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.”

Chapter 5

"I have grounds for certainty that I cannot share with anyone."
"Dr Jekyll, looking deadly sick,"

"I burned it."

"Henry Jekyll, forge for a murderer!"

"I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again."

Chapter 6

"He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face."

"Deep-seated terror of mind."

"Lanyon declared himself a doomed man."

"I beg that you will spare me any allusion to the one whom I regard as dead."

Chapter 9

"Reeled, staggered, clutched at the table,"

"'O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again,"

"my soul sickened at it."

"Like a man restored from death."

"Your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan,"

Chapter 10

"Shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain,"

"Man is not truly one, but truly two."

"I felt younger, lighter, happier in body"

"My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring."

"More wicked, tenfold more wicked."

"Edward Hyde was pure evil."

"I concealed my pleasures."

"I regarded and hid them, with an almost morbid sense of shame."

"My new powers tempted me, until I fell in slavery,"

"I mauled the unresisting body."