Y10 Lit Revision (AIC, L&R, J&H)

smile

Utterson's face 'was never lighted by a ________.' (Ch.1)

austere

Utterson 'was __________ with himself, drank gin to mortify a taste for vintages, and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.' (Ch. 1)

Cain's heresy

"I incline to ________ ___________," he (Utterson) used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." (Ch.1)

modest

Unlike the scientists Jekyll and Lanyon, Utterson is 'a __________ man' who accepts his friends and acquaintances for who they are, without passing judgement. He is tolerant of others and is often 'the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.' (Ch.1)

sordid negligence

The laboratory, as approached from the by-street: 'It was two-storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of ________ ____________.' (Ch. 1)

blistered and distained

'The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was ____________ and _____________.' (Ch. 1)

damned Juggernaut

Enfield on Hyde (Ch. 1): 'It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn't like a man; it was like some __________ ___________.'

make his name stink

Enfield (Ch. 1): 'I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with desire to kill him. I knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing being out of the question, we did the next best. We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should _______ _____ _______ _______ from one end of London to the other.

black, sneering coolness

Hyde, when confronted by Enfield, the Sawbones and the 'harpies' (Ch. 1): 'there was the man in the middle, with a kind of _______, __________ ___________ - frightened too, I could see that - but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.'

gentleman

Despite the 'strong feeling of deformity' Hyde projects and his 'downright detestable' appearance, Enfield (and Hyde himself) refers to him as a '_____________'. (Ch. 1)

Henry Jekyll

Enfield's hints about the name on the cheque (Ch. 1): 'the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.' Who is it?

Queer Street

Enfield has 'a delicacy' that prevents him asking awkward questions: 'I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like _________ _________, the less I ask.' (Ch. 1)

long tongue

Enfield regrets his gossip (Ch. 1): 'Here is another lesson to say nothing... I am ashamed of my _______ __________. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.'

They shake on it.

dry divinity

Utterson's Sunday evening custom: 'to sit close by the fire, a volume of ____ _________ on his reading desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed.' (Ch. 2)

disgrace

Utterson, as he 'replaced the obnoxious paper (Jekyll's will) in the safe': "I thought it was madness... and now I begin to fear it is ____________." (Ch. 2)

Cavendish Square

'the great Dr Lanyon' lives in 'that citadel of medicine', ___________ __________. (Ch. 2)

dapper, red-faced

Lanyon 'was a hearty, healthy, ____________, ______-__________ gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner. At sight of Mr Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands. The geniality... was somewhat theatrical to the eye, but it reposed on genuine feeling.' (Ch. 2)

unscientific balderdash

Lanyon: 'it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind... such _______________ _________________ would have estranged Damon and Pythias' (Ch. 2)

dream

Utterson has 'a singularly strong... curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr Hyde' after seeing a figure with 'no face' in a ________ in Chapter 2.

Mr Seek

Utterson's determination and curiosity: 'If he be Mr Hyde... I shall be ____ ________.' (Ch. 2)

pale and dwarfish

'Mr Hyde was ______ and __________, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.' (Ch. 2)

hissing, snarled

First impressions of the bestial Hyde's voice: 'Mr Hyde shrank back with a _________ intake of the breath... (he) __________ aloud into a savage laugh.' (Ch. 2) (insert a comma between the two words)

troglodytic

Utterson thinks Hyde 'seems hardly human' and describes him as ____________: 'O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.'

sobering

Utterson's friends: 'Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer... they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, _________________ their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety. (Ch. 3)

slyish cast

Jeykll (Ch. 3): 'a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a _________ ______ perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness...'

hide-bound pedant

Jekyll (Ch. 3): 'I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that ______-__________ _________, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.'

blackness

At the mention of Hyde's name, Jekyll's 'large handsome face 'grew pale' and there came a _____________ about his eyes.' (Ch. 3)

let it sleep

Jekyll (Ch. 3) 'I will tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde... this is a private matter, and I beg of you to _____ ___ _______.'

aged and beautiful gentleman

Sir Danvers Carew, MP, is 'an _______ and ____________ _______________ with white hair' and a 'very pretty manner of politeness'. (Ch. 4)

innocent and old-world kindness

Sir Danvers Carew's face 'seemed to breathe such an __________ and _____-________ ___________ of disposition, yet with something high too, as of a well-founded self-content.' (Ch. 4)

great flame

Hyde's attack on Sir Danvers: '...he broke out in a ________ _________ of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. (Ch. 4)

ape-like fury

Hyde's attack on Sir Danvers: 'Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with _____-_______ _______, 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. (Ch. 4)

incredibly mangled

The body of Sir Danvers Carew lay 'in the middle of the lane, ____________ ___________.' (Ch. 4)

professional ambition

Inspector Newcomen: "Good God, sir... is it possible?" And the next moment his eyes lighted up with ______________ _____________. "This will make a great deal of noise," he said. (Ch. 4)

strange conflagration

The cab ride to Soho (Ch. 4): A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours... Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some _________ ____________; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

city in a nightmare

Cab ride to Soho (Ch. 4): The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses... seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some _____ ____ ___ __________.

hypocrisy

Hyde's housekeeper is 'an ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman', with 'an evil face, smoothed by ___________, but her manners were excellent.' Later, 'a flash of odious joy' appears on her face when she realises that Hyde might be in trouble. (Ch. 4)

windowless

In Chapter 5, Utterson is taken by Poole 'across a yard which had once been a garden' to the laboratory, which is described as a 'dingy ___________ structure.'

red baize

At the far end of the laboratory, 'a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with _____ ________' leading to Dr Jekyll's cabinet. (Ch. 5)

barred with iron

The cabinet 'was a large room, fitted round with glass presses, furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows _______ ______ _______.' (Ch. 5)

feverish

When Utterson meets Jekyll in his cabinet in Chapter 5, the doctor looks 'deadly sick' and does not rise; he holds out a 'cold hand' and welcomes him in 'a changed voice'. He says that Hyde is 'safe, quite safe', but Utterson does not like his '_________ manner'.

hateful business

Jekyll on REPUTATION in Chapter 5: 'I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am quite done with him. I was thinking of my own character, which this _________ __________ has rather exposed.'

lesson

Jekyll tells Utterson: "I wish you to judge for me entirely... I have lost confidence in myself." Later, he tells Utterson that he has had a _______: "O God, Utterson, what a ________ I have had." (Ch. 5)

sucked down in the eddy

Utterson's fears for Jekyll's REPUTATION (Ch. 5): 'He could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be ________ ______ ____ ______ _______ of the scandal.'

disperse the fogs

WINE MOTIF (Ch. 5): 'In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to __________ _____ _____ of London.'

business

REPRESSION through euphemism and understatement (Ch. 5): When talking with Guest, Utterson calls the Carew murder case 'a sad __________' and 'an ugly __________'. They both agree that the similarity between Jekyll and Hyde's signatures is 'rather quaint'.

repression

In Chapter 5, Utterson locks Hyde's letter in his safe, which symbolically represents his ____________ throughout the novel.

disappearance of Mr Hyde

Utterson's reckoning: 'The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking, more than paid for by the ________________ _____ _____ ________.' (Ch. 6)

open

Jekyll's 'new life' (Ch. 6): 'He came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been known for charities, he was now no less distinguished for religion. He was busy, he was much in the ______ air, he did good; his face seemed to ______ and brighten, as if with an inward consciousness of service; and for more than two months, the doctor was at peace.'

death-warrant

Lanyon's transformation (Ch. 6): He had his ________-__________ written legibly upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet it was not so much, these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer's notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind.

dead

Lanyon tells Utterson that he is 'quite done with that person' (Jekyll) and regards him as '_______'. (Ch. 6)

dark way

Jekyll's 'pathetically worded' and 'mysterious' letter (Ch. 6): "I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion... You must suffer me to go my own ______ _____. 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... you can do but one thing, Utterson, to lighten this destiny, and that is to respect my silence."

the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll

The envelope within an envelope (Ch. 6): The outer envelope from Lanyon is for 'the hands of G. J Utterson alone' and, if in the hands of another, should be 'destroyed unread'. The inner envelope is superscribed: "not to be opened until ____ _______ ___ ___________ ____ ___ _______ _______."

curiosity

After putting the packet from Lanyon in 'the innermost corner of his private safe' (Ch. 6): 'It is one thing to mortify __________, another to conquer it.'

Incident at the Window

Chapter 7, _________ ___ _____ __________, creates a sense of circularity and contains a moment of horror which hints at the acceleration of the narrative towards its conclusion.

some disconsolate prisoner

Chapter 7: 'The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like ______ ____________ __________, Utterson saw Dr Jekyll.

instantly thrust down

Incident at the Window (Ch. 7): '...the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but for a glimpse, for the window was ___________ _______ ______; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word.

God forgive us, God forgive us

Utterson and Enfield (Ch. 7): They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes.
"_____ ________ ____, ______ _________ ____," said Mr. Utterson.
But Mr. Enfield only nodded his head very seriously and walked on once more in silence.

untasted on his knee

WINE MOTIF: Wine seems to represent an antidote to the repression of Victorian London. Utterson produces it to get Guest talking in Chapter 5, but usually he's too 'austere' to drink it himself. He also gives some to Poole to get him to open up in Chapter 8, but the agitated butler cannot look Utterson in the face, and 'sat with the glass _________ ___ ____ _______.'

pale moon, lying on her back

The Last Night (Chapter 8) 'was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a _______ _______, _______ ____ _____ _______ as though the wind had tilted her...'

irregular, unseemly

Utterson, to Jekyll's hysterical servants on 'The Last Night' (Ch. 8): "What, what? Are you all here?" said the lawyer peevishly. "Very ___________, very ____________; your master would be far from pleased." "They're all afraid," said Poole. Blank silence followed, no one protesting...

upon the name of God

Poole's theory (Ch. 8): "No, sir; master's made away with; he was made away with eight days ago, when we heard him cry out ______ _____ ______ ___ _______; and who's in there instead of him, and why it stays there, is a thing that cries to Heaven, Mr. Utterson!"

cry out like a rat

Poole sees Hyde (Ch. 8): "Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? If it was my master, why did he ____ _____ _____ __ _____, and run from me?"

exorbitant alarms

In Chapter 8, Utterson is desperate for a neat, rational explanation for the strange events Poole describes. He decides that it is 'one of those maladies': "There is my explanation; it is... appalling to consider; but it is plain and natural, hangs well together, and delivers us from all ________ _______."

dwarf

Poole doesn't buy Utterson's theory about Jekyll's malady (Ch. 8): "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master... is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a ________."

frank

Utterson, finally calling for the whole truth (Ch. 8): "It is well, then, that we should be ________... We both think more than we have said; let us make a clean breast. This masked figure that you saw, did you recognise it?"

monkey

Poole's 'feelings' defeat Utterson's reason (Ch. 8): "...when that masked thing like a ________ jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet, it went down my spine like ice. Oh, I know it's not evidence..."

connection

Utterson (Ch. 8): "Evil, I fear, founded — evil was sure to come — of that _______________."

weeping

Sympathy for Hyde (Ch. 8): Poole nodded. "Once," he said. "Once I heard it ___________!... ___________ like a woman or a lost soul," said the butler. "I came away with that upon my heart, that I could have wept too." This detail gives Utterson a 'sudden chill of horror'.

self-destroyer

When Utterson and Poole break down the baize door in Chapter 8, they see 'the quietest room... the most commonplace that night in London', apart from the the strange chemicals and 'still twitching' body: 'Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a ______-____________.'

startling blasphemies

Utterson and Poole search the laboratory (Ch. 8): 'Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work... annotated, in his own hand, with __________ ____________.'

his credit

Utterson to Poole (Ch. 8): "I would say nothing of this paper. If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save ____ ________."

shipwreck

In Chapter 9, Jekyll tells Lanyon in his letter that, if he fails to carry out his requests, 'you might have charged your conscience with my death or the ________________ of my reason.'

strange place

Jekyll's dire situation (Ch. 9): 'Think of me at this hour, in a _________ ________, labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that, if you will but punctually serve me, my troubles will roll away like a story that is told.'

blood-red liquor

Jekyll's drugs (Ch. 9): 'The phial... might have been about half-full of a _________-_____ __________, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.'

muscular activity

Lanyon's reaction to Hyde (Ch. 9): 'He was small, as I have said; I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his remarkable combination of great ____________ __________ and great apparent debility of constitution...'

nature of man

Lanyon's reflection (Ch. 9): 'I have since had reason to believe the cause (of his strong negative reaction to Hyde) to lie much deeper in the _________ ___ ______, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred.'

abnormal and misbegotten

Lanyon on Hyde (Ch. 9): '...there was something _____________ and _____________ in the very essence of the creature that now faced me — something seizing, surprising, and revolting...'

one loud sob

Hyde's relief (Ch. 9): 'At sight of the contents, he uttered _____ _______ ______ of such immense relief that I sat petrified.'

watery green

Hyde's mixture starts with a 'reddish hue', then begins to 'effervesce audibly', then turns 'dark purple', before settling to 'a _________ ________'. (Ch. 9)

unbelief of Satan

Hyde tempts Lanyon's curiosity (Ch. 9): "...if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you... and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the _________ ____ _______."

derided your superiors

Hyde/Jekyll's PRIDE (Ch. 9): And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have __________ _____ _________ — behold!"

incredulous

Lanyon's reaction to the metamorphosis (Ch. 9): '...now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die _____________.'

turpitude

Lanyon refuses to dwell on the 'moral ___________' that Hyde unveiled to him ('even with tears of penitence') after his transformation. (Ch. 9)

a certain impatient gaiety of disposition

Jekyll says that the worst of his faults was 'a ___________ ____________ __________ ___ ____________.' (Ch. 10)

hypocrite

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a ___________; both sides of me were in dead earnest...'

perennial war

Jekyll says that he two sides had always been in a _____________ ______'. (Ch. 10)

dreadful shipwreck

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a ____________ __________: that man is not truly one, but truly two.'

independent denizens

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and _____________ ___________.'

fortress of identity

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very _________ ___ __________, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.'

bonds of obligation

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and... incredibly sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill-race in my fancy, a solution of the _______ ___ __________, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.'

delighted me like wine

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and ___________ ___ ______ _____.'

leap of welcome

Jekyll (Ch. 10): '...when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a ______ ____ __________.'

imperfect and divided

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the ____________ ______ ___________ countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.'

pure evil

Jekyll (Ch. 10): '...all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was _______ _______.'

prison-house

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the _________-_______ of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.'

impenetrable mantle

Jekyll describes the body of Hyde as being 'like a thick cloak' or his '______________ _________'. (Ch. 10)

strange immunities

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'I began to profit by the _________ ____________ of my position.'

sea of liberty

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye... and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the ____ ___ ______.'

I did not even exist

Jekyll (Ch. 10): 'Think of it — __ _____ _____ _____ ______! Let me but escape into my laboratory door... to mix and swallow the draught... and whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of breath upon a mirror; and there in his stead... a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion, would be Henry Jekyll.'