Chapter one
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- Chapter one
- Characters
- Mr Utterson
- The narrator for most of the play
- A lawyer
- Reliable + rational
- Stevenson shows that Utterson is the protagonist from the start and gives us a clear view straight away
- He avoids the danger of the reader misinterpreting Utterson to be something he's not
- He seems boring at first but then as the paragraph progresses he seems better, like how people see him
- Mr Enfield
- Old friend of Mr Utterson's
- Edward Hyde
- Only by mention
- Mr Utterson
- Mr Enfield tells Mr Utterson about Mr Hyde
- Hyde is shown as a monster
- He "calmly" tramples a girl and "left her screaming on the ground"
- This is the first depiction of Hyde's evil nature
- Stevenson has specifically done this to a child to increase the readers hate of Hyde
- The oxymoron "trampled calmly" implies that Hyde is comfortable with violence
- Outward appearance
- "I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight"
- He "calmly" tramples a girl and "left her screaming on the ground"
- Hyde is shown as a monster
- Mr Enfield makes Hyde pay £100
- "We screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family"
- £100 was a lot of money
- Hyde 'got' Dr Jekyll to pay the cheque
- Enfield doesn't mention who actually paid for the cheque
- But he does tell him who Hyde is
- "I can't see what harm it would do"
- He does mention that he thinks Hyde is blackmailing the person though
- But he does tell him who Hyde is
- Enfield doesn't mention who actually paid for the cheque
- Key themes
- Hyde's unnaturalness
- His unnaturalness is the first mention of him as he trampled the girl
- Enfield can't say what's unpleasant about him, just that it's something
- "There is something wrong with his appearance, something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why"
- Other people feel this way, indicating that there is something wrong with Hyde that is subconscious-sly recognised
- Victorian readers would get more bible references than a modern audience
- Utterson references the story of Cain and Able which implies that he doesn't worry about other people and isn't responsible for what happens to them
- Medicine
- The doctor that see's the trampled girl is the first of many medical professors in the book
- Layon and Jekyll are both medical doctors too
- The doctor that see's the trampled girl is the first of many medical professors in the book
- Making mistakes
- Enfield calls the house with the door blackmail house
- He assumes that the only reason Jekyll is helping Hyde is because of blackmail
- Utterson accepts this view and even acts on it later
- As it turns out, this assumption is wrong
- The first of many wrong assuptions
- This helps Stevenson to keep suspense
- The first of many wrong assuptions
- He assumes that the only reason Jekyll is helping Hyde is because of blackmail
- Enfield calls the house with the door blackmail house
- Hyde's unnaturalness
- Setting of London introduced
- The first mention of 'the door' which becomes known as the back entrance to Dr J's lab
- The prompt to get Enfield to tell the story about Hyde
- Through Enfield's description it allows Stevenson to show us what it looks like
- It stands out immediately since it is ugly in comparison to the otherwise nice street
- Commenting on how Hyde is not as respectable as the other gentleman of the time
- The prompt to get Enfield to tell the story about Hyde
- The first mention of 'the door' which becomes known as the back entrance to Dr J's lab
- Characters
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