Q: “On the subject of the Mystery of the Beetle I do not propose to pronounce a confident opinion. Atherton and I have talked it over many and many a time, and at the end we have got no ‘forrarder.’ So far as I am personally concerned, experience has taught me that there are indeed Read more about QCQ #10[…]
Q: “I could not tell,- it mounted me, apparently, with as much ease as if I had been horizontal instead of perpendicular. It was as though it were some gigantic spider,- a spider of the nightmares; a monstrous conception of some dreadful vision. It presses lightly against my clothing with what might, for all the Read more about QCQ #8[…]
I found this meme while looking at photos of Dorian Gray. I thought it was just too funny to not include. What I really wanted to talk about was the pronunciation of “b-ae-sel” and “Ba-z-il”. In the book, the character’s name is Basil “ba-z-il”. I wanted to connect this to my real life with someone Read more about CPB #7[…]
Q: “He shuddered, and for a moment he regretted that he had not told Basil the true reason why he had wished to hide the picture away. Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry’s influence and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament. That love that he bore him- Read more about QCQ #8[…]
When we think about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the villain is always Hyde. Especially after the revamping of modern culture
Q: “And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him Read more about QCQ #7[…]
This is a song from the Jekyll and Hyde musical. This show ran from 1990 to 2014 with its Broadway Debut in 1997. Music was composed by Frank Wildhorn (The same who wrote “Where do broken hearts go by Whitney Huston.” and Lyrics from Franks Wildhorn, Leslie Bricusse, Steve Cuden. On Broadway Dr, Jekyll and Read more about CPB #5[…]
Q: “How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! How he calls aloud a name, and drops his burden, and gazes on it wildly! He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he Read more about QCQ #6[…]
Reading Arlene Young’s article “The Monster Within: The Alien Self in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein” she talks about how this piece is viewed over time and how people react to the “mellowdrama”
Q: “Reader!—I forgave him at the moment, and on the spot. There was such deep remorse in his eye, such true pity in his tone, such manly energy in his manner; and, besides, there was such unchanged love in his whole look and mien, I forgave him all; yet not in words, not outwardly; only Read more about QCQ #5[…]
