We are told his hand ‘trembled’ and that Dr J was now dead to him. The mention of Dr J, Lanyon looks terrified and asks that U doesn’t talk about him. Something has given him a terrible fright. He feels his friend has let him down in some way and he is frustrated that he has still not worked out what the connection between Mr H and Dr J is. Utterson is annoyed that Jekyll’s sociability is not maintained. However eventually he becomes his old self again and he begins to socialise once more and throws parties. We are told that he has hidden himself away in his lab. When U goes to see him he becomes very agitated. Hyde’s absence makes Jekyll ill and paranoid. It is important that the truth is revealed after Jekyll’s death as the news about his connection with Mr Hyde can no longer harm his living reputation. The truth is revealed after Dr Jekyll commits suicide. It is where Dr Jekyll first created Mr Hyde. This is noteworthy as the lab is where the whole story begins. If you were not familiar with the story this may have been difficult to work out as a lot of the clues were covered up, especially by Mr Utterson. The truth that is revealed is that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the same person. This is not unusual as he is the ‘detective’ figure in the novel and so he should be the one who reveals the truth. Mr Utterson reveals the truth to us as he finds Hyde in the locked room where Dr Jekyll was. We wonder why he will not be honest about his connection with Hyde. Dr Jekyll is his usually cheery self until Hyde is mentioned, at which point he becomes snappish and changes the subject. In chapter 3 Mr Utterson goes to speak to Dr Jekyll. Hyde is described as grotesque and arrogant. He has become obsessive and paranoid about Hyde. During the search period, Mr Utterson does nothing else, every spare minute goes towards finding Hyde. We get a description of Hyde as a person. Mr Utterson continues to search for Mr Hyde and finally discovers him. Children were harmed and Jekyll was stalked. Mr Utterson couldn’t see Hyde’s face and the streets of London were unfamiliar and hidden by the fog. Mr Utterson returns home and dreams of Mr Hyde and London. We are told that Lanyon now thinks of Jekyll as a ‘scientific heretic’. We wonder why this has happened when they are supposed to be childhood friends. We discover tha thte relationship between Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll has soured. The next thing to happen in this chapter is Mr Utterson’s ivsit to Dr Lanyon. It tells us that Hyde is a nasty man and we now think he is blackmailing Dr Jekyll. Dr J & Mr H proseĪt the start of Chapter 2 we get the first paragraph concerning the will. His voice is full of emotion when he talks to Poole.ĭespite finding Hyde’s body at the end of the chapter some suspense still remains as we still need to find out how Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to be one person. Stevenson creates sympathy for the thing in the lab in this chapter as we get a sense of how desperate Dr Jekyll /Mr Hyde must be. We are unsure if they are cries of pain or anger. The cries in the night would be shocking as they would startle you in your sleep. Tension is created in Poole’s account of the man in the lab who ‘walks all day’ and cries out in the ‘quiet of the night’ as we wonder why this thing is pacing and what it is planning. He still wants to believe that Dr Jekyll is one person and not sharing a body with Mr Hyde. This tells us that Utterson wants there to be a logical explanation for what is happening, no matter how unlikely them seem. We think something is out there waiting to jump out on Poole and Utterson.Īll of Poole’s statements are explained away by Mr Utterson. The night is silent and cold and the wind is up. We know something bad is going to happen. The setting and the weather at the start of chapter 8 contribute to the eerie atmosphere and doomed mood. He usually appears controlled – here though he doesn’t finish sentences and his body language appears tense. A maid is actually crying because she is so terrified. They are all freaked out and acting out of character. Stevenson uses Poole and Jekyll’s other servants to build tension at the beginning of this chapter as he has them all collected together and frightened in the hallway.
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