Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Chapter 2

SETTING
1. 'at night under the face of the fogged city moon'
  1. setting used again to create atmosphere of one of danger and gloom
HUMOUR
1. 'If he be Mr. Hyde....I shall be Mr. Seek'
STUCTURE
1. SCENE in which Utterson is 'aware of an odd light footstep drawing near'
  1. Writer uses sentence structure to create tension for the reader before it is revealed who the footsteps belong to. Using SETTING again to draw us in.
APPEARENCE/REPUTATION
1. 'Dr Lanyon sat alone over his wine...with a shock of hair prematurely white'
  1. Another white single male like Utterson.. Hair would suggest he is very stressed about something - Jekyll?
2. 'it must be that; the ghost of some old sin'
  1. Utterson is convinced Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll. Reputation was very information back than so this was likely. He is being a good friend/Or anything else (the thought os Jekyll being bad) is unimaginable by Utterson. He therefore feels sorry for Jekyll - being punished for old sn. Which is kind of true - Hyde is evil/sin.
SCENE between Hyde and Utterson - 'you should have my address' - 'can he, too, have been thinking of the will?
1. IMPLICATION that Hyde has just given the address of one of Jekyll's other properties. It worries Utterson hat Hyde is planning to kill Jekyll for money/possessions.
DUEL PERSONALITY
1. 'timidity and boldness'
2. 'And the lawyer...Brooded a while on his own past'
  1. EVen men like Utterson has his own demon's.
'MR. UTTERSON'
1. SCENE in which Utterson dreams about Hyde
  1. 'crush a child and leave her screaming'
    1. Exaggerated description - sows how much it affected Utterson
  2. 'even in his dreams; it had no face'
    1. Evil cannot be described through words. Description of his very vague. Allows reader to create their own image. It is almost more horrific than anything that could be written in writing.
  3. Long complex sentences suggest the dreams were ongoing
2. 'Mr. Utterson of Gaunt Street'
  1. Gaunt means very thin, sickly, haggard - characterisation. - Not positive/uncomfortable. Juxtaposition. Utterson seems to be such a put together man but lives in such a place.
3. The narrator continues to refer to him as Mr Utterson throughout the book. This maintains the difference between the reader and the character. However we do get to know him more in more intimate/intense parts of the book as the book progresses.
Religion
1. 'a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk...when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed'
  1. 'boring divinity' - It is a book about God so that line would be controversial (ALLITERATION). Utterson is religion. He would send his Sunday studying reading religiously. Yet he is grateful to get to bed. What does this suggest about the character? (Context - people beginning to focus less on religion - science was developing)
HYDE
1. EVIL
  1. Fear of 'Other'
    1. fear of the different/unknown expressed in the book. including physical malformations like Hyde he is outcast from society/not the norm. Shows description of Hyde by narrator is biased. Why is he the other?
  2. HYDE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL
    1. 'the pair stared at each other pretty fixedly for a few seconds'
    2. 'he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable maformation'
      1. Narrator gives us extra information about Hyde, negative, intended to make the reader feel a certain way about him.
      2. describes evilness as an unseen malformation in us. Something wrong that shouldn't be there but we are born with it. It is hidden in society but present nonetheless. 'unnameable' suggests evil is something that cannot be expressed through words. Reader does not have a strong reason to dislike Hyde but have an unexplainable feeing that something is severely wrong about him.
    3. 'if I ever read Satan's signature upon a face'
      1. Biblical reference - suggests Hyde is pure evil like Satan
2. Animalistic
  1. 'hissing intake of breath'
    1. snakes are known to be two faces and cunning. They shed their kin to reveal what is underneath. Their link to the Bible - Satan. Causing sin and evil.
  2. 'the other snarled aloud into a savage laugh...and disappeared into the house'
    1. Animalistic - like a bear. Word Choice - strong, vicious, evil, dangerous. The face he 'disappeared' further supports the idea that Hyde is almost other worldly - supernatural - Satanistic - embodiment of evil
  3. DARWINISM
    1. 'the man seems hardly human'
      1. almost less evolved than the rest of society. impulsive and violent

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