Chaper two
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- Chapter two: Search for Mr Hyde
- Henry Jekyll's will is mysterious.
- Utterson, as a lawyer, has Jekyll's will, which states that if Jekyll dies or disappears, then all Jekyll's possessions should go to Hyde. This makes Utterson think that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll
- This was very common in Victorian Era as gentlemen were obsessed with reputation and would do anything to stop it from being ruined
- Utterson goes to visit Lanyon, but finds out that he has fallen out with Jekyll over Jekyll's "trandenscental medicine" which Lanyon thinks in "unscientific balderdash." This hints that Jekyll's science is taking a darker turn
- Utterson asks Lanyon, a wise character, if he has heard of Hyde but he hasn't, and so he leaves none the wiser.
- The fact that he hasn't learnt anything leaves Utterson unsettled and causes him to dream that he's "haunted" by a man with no face. He sees him in every street of a nightmarish London.
- These dreams show how Hyde is affecting Uttersons's subconscious mind and leaves him wanting to see Hyde's face so that the "mystery would lighten" Utterson is a rational man and visual evidence is important to him.
- Utterson, as a lawyer, has Jekyll's will, which states that if Jekyll dies or disappears, then all Jekyll's possessions should go to Hyde. This makes Utterson think that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll
- Utterson meets Hyde and is unsettled
- Utterson begins to "haunt" the door which Enfield saw Hyde enter that night. As its night time, the street is "solitary" and "silent" before Hyde appears. This creates tension and suspense.
- This si the first time we directly meet Hyde, and he is described as "pale and dwarfish" with a "savage laugh." Utterson also describes him to be "hardly human" which shows he is less evolved than everyone else.
- In Victorian times, people associated appearance with personality. For example, an attractive person would be thought to have a good personality, but an ugly person would be thought to have a bad personality.
- When Utterson implies that Jekyll told him about Hyde, Hyde strongly denies that. This leaves the reader wondering why Hyde would deny it so strongly. It makes sense afterwards though.
- Jekyll's house is an important symbol
- Utterson knew all along that the black, sinister building was the back of Jekyll's house, his laboratory, but the reader only finds this out now. The way important info like this is given out bit by bit adds to the mystery.
- Jekyll's house has "a great air of wealth and comfort" which symbolises his respectable nature and successful life.
- Writers technique: symbolism- Jekyll's "comfortable" house contrasts the "sinister" building Hyde goes into. These buildings are physically contrasted and this symbolises the differences between Jekyll and Hyde.
- When Jekyll's butler, named Poole, tells Utterson that the servants all have orders to obey Hyde, ge us more than convinced that Jekyll is being blackmailed for "some old sin"
- Key quote
- "there is something more, f I could find a name for it."
- Utterson manages to collar Hyde but he scarpers before Utterson manages to accuse him of ungentlemanly behavior. Hyde makes Utterson feel uneasy but he cant understand quite what it is
- Henry Jekyll's will is mysterious.
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