Jekyll&Hyde_Utterson
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- Created on: 12-05-17 11:18
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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"
- "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"
- "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"
- mixture of good and evil
- 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
- trustworthy
- 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"
- Jekyll
- Duality
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