Themes Flashcards
All 16 cards in this deck
Duality: what does Jekyll say man truly is?
“not truly one, but truly two”
Duality: what does Jekyll call his life of hidden pleasures?
“a profound duplicity of life”
Good and evil: what does Jekyll say Hyde alone among mankind was?
“pure evil”
Reputation: what does Jekyll say he was thinking of when he shows Utterson Hyde’s letter?
“my own character”: his reputation.
Secrecy: what rule does Enfield follow about strange cases?
“the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
Secrecy: what do Utterson and Enfield agree at the end of Chapter 1?
Never to refer to the story again.
Secrecy: what is unusual about the door in Chapter 1?
It has “neither bell nor knocker”.
Violence: what does Hyde do to Carew after clubbing him?
Tramples him and rains blows until the bones are “audibly shattered”.
Violence: whom does Hyde strike in the face on the night he goes to Lanyon’s?
A woman offering him a box of lights (matches).
Science and religion: what does Utterson find Hyde has written in Jekyll’s pious book?
“startling blasphemies”, in Jekyll’s own hand.
Science: which character dies from the shock of what he has seen?
Dr Lanyon.
Addiction: whom does Jekyll compare himself to as he reasons about his vice?
A drunkard.
The supernatural: which character says he read “Satan’s signature” on Hyde’s face?
Utterson (Chapter 2).
Friendship: who does Utterson say are Jekyll’s two oldest friends?
Himself and Lanyon.
Animal imagery: what kind of fury does the maid see in Hyde?
“ape-like fury”
What is the fog in the novel often said to symbolise?
Secrecy and hidden truth.