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The strange case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde characters, settings, themes, key words ECT.
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Dr. Jekyll
Is a well respected doctor, well established in his community. Since his youth however he has always known he has a darker side it is in the novel that you see him as he tries to bring out his other side showing his dual personality.
Mr. Hyde
Is the result of Jekyll's scientific experiments and is basically an evil side of Jekyll which violent and cruel. He becomes stronger throughout the novel and soon Jekyll is finding it impossible to surpress him. This then ends with Jekyll dying.
Mr. Utterson
A proper victorian gentleman who does not participate in idle gossip. He is quite reserved and slightly tedious, lacking alot of imagination. Throughout the novel Utterson acts as a detective as he tries to discover what is going on.
Dr. Lanyon
Also a well respected doctor, Lanyon does not think that Jekyll is doing the right thing when he starts messing around with science as he has a 'fear of the unknown' but he agrees to help when Jekyll sends a letter asking for him.
Mr. Enfield
A distant cousin and a lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson. Like Utterson is reserved and scornful of gossip. They also enjoy going on long evening walks together although most times they barely speak.
Mr. Poole
Is Jekyll's butler and has worked with him for roughly 20 years and gets extremely worried when Jekyll confines himself to his room.
Mr. Guest
Is Uttersons clerk. He is an expert in handwriting and notices that Jekyll and Hyde have the exact same handwriting except they slant in opposite ways.
Sir Danvers Carew
An MP (member of parliment) also a client of Uttersons. He is a kind and noble man who is murdered by an angry Mr. Hyde, a young maid witnesses the murder from a window and reports to the police that it was indeed Hyde who killed Carew.
Good 'vs' evil
Jekyll is seen as a good character but who has an evil side, Hyde, his alter-ego. He spends his whole life trying to surpress this darker side but he decides to see if he can split himself into good and evil but the evil side ends up been more dominant destroying Jekyll in the process.
Freud (pronounced Froid)
A phsychologist in the 1800's researching the human mind and how people can have split personalities. Stevenson wouldn't have known this at the time he wrote the novel as Freud's research was not released 'til a later date.
Religion 'vs' science
In the novel Lanyon did not agree with the way in which Jekyll was dabbling with science and questioning religion. In reality a scientist named Darwin was also questioning religion when he investigated if maybe the world formed in a different way (evolution) than religion told.
Appearance
In this novel it shows in great detail that back in the victorian era, what was on the exterior was all that mattered, everyone keeps up a facade. Jekyll has to try and surpress his inner dark side as he has expectations that he must keep up, been a doctor from a wealthy family. Also on the outside of Jekyll's house out the front there is a neat, grand entrance. Whilst at the back it's a dark and dingy doorway which is the entrance that Hyde uses.
1. Story of the door
Utterson and Enfield take their usual Sunday walk, whilst walking they spot a neglected building and Enfield recites a story of what happened to him one night. He walked down a road and saw a deformed looking man trample on a young girl, Stevenson describes the man as a 'juggernaut'. Enfield and the girls family threaten the man and he agrees to give them a check he takes them to the door of the neglected building to give them the check. The check is from a man named Mr. Hyde. They decide to never talk about the matter again.
2. Search for Mr. Hyde
When Utterson gets home from his walk he takes a look at his client, Jekylls, will. It states that if Jekyll disappears or dies then everything gets left to a Mr. Hyde. Utterson spends the night having nightmares about how a faceless man runs down a street, trampling over a young girl and then stands beside Jekylls bed. Utterson begins to spend time next to where Enfield saw Hyde enter. After a while he has a small encounter with Hyde, in which he experiences the same sensation of horror when he see's him as all of the others who have met him. Utterson assumes Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll and worries for his friends well-being.
3. Dr. Jekyll was quite at ease
Two weeks later Jekyll holds a successful dinner party. Utterson intends to make a joke about Hyde but Jekyll goes pale and looks afraid, he tells Utterson "the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde."