Secrecy & Mystery

• The first fog of the season

  Fog- alliteration & visual imagery of blurry and obscure immediately creating secrecy for the Carew murder case.

  • Pathetic fallacy- sinister forces of evil manifest in the weather.
  • How nature also helps Hyde to cover up his misdeeds as he represents the dual nature
  • Symbolic for a concealed truth ( Jekyll is Hyde) foreshadowing how Jekyll is hiding something like the Victorian Gentlemans repressing their desires to maintain their reputation.
  • subtle allusion to repressed homosexuality as the fog is obscuring London (Jekyll’s nature)
• Light falling dimly through the foggy cupola 


  How the fog had invaded into Jekyll’s laboratory .

  • Fog is a metaphor for Hyde while light is a metaphor for Jekyll. This shows how Hyde had completely taken over the control while Jekyll holds little power.
  • Fog represent Utterson‘s puzzled and frustrated mind as he doesn’t know any truth from Jekyll showing secrecy