Question

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 mood of this excerpt can best be described as

confused.
delightful.
ominous.
righteous.

Answer 1

ominous.

The language — "doomed," "dreadful shipwreck," and the unsettling idea that "man is not truly one, but truly two" — creates a foreboding, threatening tone.