Jekyll and Hyde

• Telling the story through one characters experience at a time gives the reader a restricted view even though ch 1 - 8 is in third person
• Description of Mr Utterson Chapter 1: "lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable"
• Description of Mr Enfield Chapter 1: "the well-known man about town"
• Description of street which Blackmail house is on Chapter 1: "like a fire in a forest"
• Description of Blackmail house Chapter 1: "certain sinister block"
• Description of Mr Hyde by Mr Enfield Chapter 1: "he gives a strong feeling of deformity"
• Epistolary form is used to reveal more information slowly and build tension
• Fog moving around Blackmail house Chapter 4: "fog settled down" semantic field of shifting fog/mist throughout story
• Description of Dr Lanyon Chapter 2: "red-faced gentleman"
• Mr Utterson's dream Chapter 2: "Or else...and lo!" Long complex sentence show his lack of control, his mind racing
• Description of setting as Mr Utterson stalks Hyde Chapter 2: "face of the fogged city moon" - Juxtaposition between light and concealment
• Description of street before Mr Utterson meets Mr Hyde Chapter 2: "very solitary and, despite the low growl of London" - Zoomorphism
• Description of Mr Hyde from Utterson's perspective Chapter 2: "Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish"
• End line of chapter 2: "the strange clauses of the will" - Cliff hanger and reflection of the title
• Time phrases often used Chapter 3: "A fortnight later" ch1 - 8 in chronological order
• Description of Dr Jekyll Chapter 3: "a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty" - foil to Hyde
• Second and opposite description of Dr Jekyll Chapter 3: "a slyish cast perhaps"
• Dr Jekyll trying to shift topic away from his will Chapter 3: "I never saw a man so distressed" - talking to Utterson
• Dr Jekyll being hubristic Chapter 3: "I can be rid of Mr Hyde"
• Dr Jekyll emotionally manipulating Utterson, Utterson agrees Chapter 3: "I promise" - third repetition of the word promise, last line of the chapter, mysterious pause indicated significance.
• Foreshadow of murder about to happen Chapter 4: "lit by the full moon" - Classic gothic setting, monster about to come out
• Description of Sir Danvers Carew Chapter 4: "beautiful gentleman with white hair"
• Description of Sir Danvers Carew's behaviour Chapter 4: "pretty manner of politeness"
• Description of Mr Hyde's behaviour Chapter 4: "ill-contained impatience" - contrast to Carew, the alliteration creates a parallel between the two lines
• Description of Mr Hyde murdering Carew Chapter 4: "ape-like fury"
• Description of Carew being murdered Chapter 4: "bones were audibly shattered"
• Policeman's description of Mr Hyde Chapter 4: "particularly wicked-looking" - dialogue gives perspective from someone other than Utterson
• Utterson's journey to Hyde's house Chapter 4: "the cab crawled from street to street" - part of long complex sentence reflects slowness of journey
• The street of blackmail house before Utterson enters the house Chapter 4: "like a district of some city in a nightmare"
• Contrast of street at night to the day Chapter 4: "the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street" - shifting fog shows Mr Utterson never being able to get a full picture, something is always concealed
• Description of Mr Hyde's activities from old woman Chapter 4: "his habits were very irregular" - he subverts Victorian society and enjoys things he shouldn't
• New description of Mr Hyde Chapter 4: "the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity" - xenophobia, always a vague and repetitive description
• Description of laboratory surroundings Chapter 5: "lying gaunt and silent"
• Description of inside lab Chapter 5: "littered with packing straw"
• Description of door to lab Chapter 5: "a door covered with red baize" - liminal space
• New description of Dr Jekyll Chapter 5: "looking deathly sick" and "cold hand"
• Dr Jekyll emotionally manipulating after giving Utterson a letter: "I have so great a trust in you" - plants evidence on Utterson, Dr J needs help
• Dr Jekyll hiding his true feelings Chapter 5: "he covered his face for a moment with his hands" - motif of hands in chapter 5
• Mr Utterson concerned for Jekyll's reputation: "be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal"
• Mr Utterson down playing the intensity of Mr Hyde's letter having Dr Jekyll's hand writing Chapter 5: "Rather quaint" - he is skipping around the actual point of Dr J being guilty of something