Paper 2

Cards (69)

  • Dr Jekyll: '"Man is not truly one, but truly two."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"The agonized womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"The power of voluntary change be forfeited, and the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"In each of us, two natures are at war—the good and the evil."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mist-like transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life, and through every change of fortune, and the disparity between my aspirations and my results."'
  • Dr Jekyll: '"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring."'
  • Utterson : '"I have been learning something of young Hyde."'
  • Utterson : '"If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit."'
  • Lanyon's Letter: '"He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older."'
  • William Blake: '"I was angry with my friend: / I told my wrath, my wrath did end." / "I was angry with my foe: / I told it not, my wrath did grow." / "And into my garden stole / When the night had veiled the pole; / In the morning glad I see / My foe outstretched beneath the tree."'
  • Lord Byron: '"The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;" / "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, / And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;" / "And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, / But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;"'
  • William Wordsworth: '"One summer evening (led by her) I found / A little boat tied to a willow tree" / "The horizon's utmost boundary; far above / Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky." / "Huge and mighty forms, that do not live / Like living men, moved slowly through the mind / By day, and were a trouble to my dreams."'
  • Thomas Hardy: '"Had he and I but met / By some old ancient inn," / "I shot him dead because – / Because he was my foe," / "Yes; quaint and curious war is! / You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to half-a-crown."'
  • Christina Rossetti: '"I was a cottage maiden / Hardened by sun and air," / "He lured me to his palace home – / Woe's me for joy thereof –" / "Your love was writ in sand: / If he had fooled not me but you, / If you stood where I stand, / He'd not have won me with his love / Nor bought me with his land;"'
  • John Agard: '"Excuse me / standing on one leg / I'm half-caste." / "Explain yuself / wha yu mean / when yu say half-caste" / "I half-caste human being / cast half-a-shadow"'
  • Wilfred Owen: '"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us..." / "Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed / With crusted dark-red jewels." / "For love of God seems dying."'
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson: '"Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred." / "There's not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die." / "When can their glory fade? / O the wild charge they made!"'
  • Gillian Clarke: '"I can remember you, child, / As I stood in a hot, white / Room at the window watching" / "Our first / Fierce confrontation, the tight / Red rope of love which we both / Fought over." / "Still I am fighting / You off, as you stand there / With your straight, strong, long / Brown hair and your rosy / Defiant glare."'
  • Carol Ann Duffy: '"In his dark room he is finally alone / with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows." / "A hundred agonies in black-and-white / from which his editor will pick out five or six / for Sunday's supplement." / "The reader's eyeballs prick / with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers."'
  • Ciaran Carson: '"Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks." / "Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type." / "I know this labyrinth so well – Balaklava, Raglan, Inkerman, Odessa Street – / Why can't I escape?"'
  • Mary Casey: '"How can you tell what class I'm from?" / "Does it stick in your gullet like a sour plum?" / "I'm proud of the class that I come from."'
  • Jane Weir: '"Three days before Armistice Sunday / and poppies had already been placed." / "I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, / spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade." / "I listened, hoping to hear / your playground voice catching on the wind."'
  • Benjamin Zephaniah: '"I am not de problem / But I bear de brunt / Of silly playground taunts" / "Mother country get it right, / An juss fe de record, / Sum of me best friends are white."'
  • Denise Levertov: '"Did the people of Viet Nam / use lanterns of stone?" / "Sir, their light hearts turned to stone." / "Who can say? It is silent now."'
  • William Blake: 'And I watered it in fears, / Night and morning with my tears;'