Throughout the text Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson builds up several moments of mystery to build up tension in the reader and create greater anticipation before the revelation at the end. This isolates Jekyll’s courtyard and identifies it as having a supernatural atmosphere and as being a place of danger.

The night is dark and windy, and the streets are deserted, giving Utterson a premonition of disaster. When he reaches Jekyll’s house, he finds the servants gathered fearfully in the main hall. Poole brings Utterson to the door of Jekyll’s laboratory and calls inside, saying that Utterson has come for a visit.

Which statement best describes how Mr. Jekyll’s view of transformation changes throughout the story? He becomes increasingly wary of his ability to scientifically defy morality.

The passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the most characteristic of gothic literature is “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.”

The fear comes from the horrific actions of Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego, Mr. Hyde; it is seen in the strange appearance of Mr. Hyde; and, it is also found in the consideration that evil may lie dormant in every human being.

Stevenson establishes scenes to create horror throughout the novella as a whole. This can be seen in ‘The Story of the Door’ when Hyde ‘trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming. ‘ The juxtaposition between the verb ‘trampled’ and the adverb ‘calmly’ aids in conveying a sense of horror.

Hyde’s house is in Soho, a part of London that was associated with crime and immoral living in the Victorian period. The area seems ideally suited to Hyde’s character – a dark place, full of crime and despair. It is in sharp contrast with Jekyll’s pleasant house described in Chapter 3.

The use of the simile ‘ape-like fury’ describes Hyde as an animal capable of rages, not a human. This shows that Hyde doesn’t care about his actions and has no control over his fiery, animalistic behaviour. Towards the end of the book, Hyde becomes the dominant side to Dr Jekyll’s personality.

Enfield says of Hyde mowing down the girl that ‘it was like some damned Juggernaut’ (p. 3). A Juggernaut was a huge wagon which carried the image of the Hindu god Krishna.

After Hyde murders a vicar, Jekyll’s friends suspect he is helping the killer, but the truth is that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Jekyll has developed a potion that allows him to transform himself into Hyde and back again. When he runs out of the potion, he is trapped in his Hyde form and commits suicide.

Hyde’s name is crossed out, and Utterson’s name has replaced it. What is symbolic about Utterson’s full name? Utterson’s full name is Gabriel John Utterson, and Gabriel is the name of the four archangels. This archangel was given the role of messenger.

Wiktionary. Hyde(ProperNoun) for someone living on a hide of land.

A personality alternating between good and evil behavior, as in You never know whether Bob will be a Jekyll or a Hyde. This expression comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

Henry Jekyll, nicknamed in some copies of the story as Harry Jekyll, and his alternative personality, Mr. Edward Hyde, is the central character of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

The park’s name comes from the Manor of Hyde, which was the northeast sub-division of the manor of Eia (the other two sub-divisions were Ebury and Neyte) and appears as such in the Domesday Book.

Central Park, probably the world’s most famous park, is more than double the size of Hyde Park, at 3.41km2 to Hyde Park’s 1.42km2 (that’s without including Kensington Gardens). Hyde Park has the Serpentine Sackler Gallery; Central Park has The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What is Hyde Park famous for? Hyde Park is famous for its speaker’s corner and for being the largest park in the central park & the royal parks of London.

Hyde Park opens from 5:00 am until midnight all year round. It has highly accessible by public transport with a number of bus and tube stops surrounding the park.

Jekyll’s cabinet door in the laboratory. Poole calls out that Utterson is here, asking to see the doctor. A strange voice within states that Jekyll will see no one. Eight days ago, Poole says, he heard Jekyll cry out the name of God.

In the passage “Secrets isolate people from those around them”, this is developed by “Dr. Jekyll did not join his friend even though he would like to walk with them” because he is afraid that his secret will be discovered. The answer is the letter “A”.