The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (annotated)

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The reader sees the trees damaging themselves as if it were easier to be dead than to face the weather. If the definition is on Wiktionary, but there are multiple definitions and it is not clear which is the right one, add a footnote to clarify. Street after street, and all the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church —till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman .

UTTERSON the lawyer was 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, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. There are three windows looking on the court on the first floor; none below; the windows are always shut but they're clean. In other words, Hyde’s ugliness is not physical but metaphysical; it attaches to his soul more than to his body. In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, As the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a gripping horror novel about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences surrounding his old friend, Dr.

And since the final two Chapters are "documents," and we neither see nor hear anymore from Utterson, we can only speculate as to how this strange information from his two closest friends will affect him. Jekyll’s experiments with a potion lead to the physical and moral transformation into Hyde, an embodiment of his darker impulses. He divulges that the culprit’s name was Hyde, and, at this point, Utterson declares that he knows the man, and notes that he can now guess the name on the check.

Enfield was walking in the same neighborhood late one night, when he witnessed a shrunken, misshapen man crash into and trample a young girl.Jekyll's transformed personality, Hyde, was evil, self-indulgent, and uncaring to anyone but himself. As the minutes pass, Jekyll's room grows quiet until all they can hear are soft, light footfalls, very different from Jekyll's heavy creaking tread, pacing to and fro. Although the opening scene also contains vaguely supernatural elements, particularly in the strange dread that Hyde inspires, Stevenson likely intended his readers to enter the novel believing it to be nothing more than a mystery story. Utterson turns to Poole and asks him to say nothing of this sealed packet; perhaps they can yet save Jekyll's reputation.