Jekyll&Hyde_Utterson

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  • Utterson
    • Duality
      • mixture of good and evil
        • "a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, and yet somehow loveable"
          • even his original description is full of contrast
        • "something eminently human beaconed from his eye"
        • "drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages"
        • "though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the door of one for twenty years"
        • "sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds"
        • ""I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way""
        • "His friend were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object"
      • "And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-box of old antiquity"
      • "Mr Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown"
      • "he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which may at times assail the most honest"
    • Narrator
      • trustworthy
        • "Dr Jekyll's will"
        • trusted by other characters
          • "Dr Jekyll's will"
      • lawyer
      • human
        • not necessarily good but also not evil --> unbiased view
    • Relationships
      • Jekyll
        • doesn't tell police about Jekyll's connection to Hyde
        • ""there was a shudder in his blood
        • "but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognised it for the one he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll"
        • "he was surprised at his friend's selfishness"
      • Hyde
        • "What do you want?"
        • "I can't pretend that I shall ever like him"
      • Lanyon
        • "the geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling"
        • "thoroughly enjoyed each others company"

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