Quotes about Jekyll/Hyde

Cards (12)

  • "I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation" (10)
  • "well-made" "with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness" (3)
  • "I concealed my pleasures... I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life" (10-before the potion was made)
  • "Man is not truly one, but truly two"
    "Agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling" (10)
  • Hyde: "Pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity" (2)
  • Setting: "A chocolate pall lowered over heaven" (4)
    "Even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly" (5)
  • "Such unscientific balderdash [...] would have estranged Damon and Pythias" (L2)
  • "Doff at once the body of the noted professor" and "Assume like a thick cloak that of Edward Hyde" (10)
  • "The perennial war among my members" (10)
  • About Hyde: "Much of his past was unearthed... disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty... of his vile life, of his strange associates" (6)
  • What was Jekyll committed to?
    A profound duplicity of life
  • Who were Damon and Pythias?
    Greek myth - Pythias was sentenced to death but Damon took his place