Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.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. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.

The narrator says that discovering the truth has led to a “dreadful shipwreck,” which gives the passage a threatening, foreboding tone. “Ominous” means suggesting that something bad is going to happen, so it best describes the excerpt. “Delightful” and “righteous” do not fit its grim warning, and “confused” does not capture the narrator’s sense of approaching disaster.

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