Hyde chapter 2

• Detestable character, Mr. Hyde.

  • Hydes name in Jekyll will is confusing and upsetting to utterson ‘ it was worse when it began to be with the testable attributes; and out of the shifting, in substantial Mr had so long baffled his eyes, the leaked or sudden, definite presentment of a fiend ‘
  • Stevenson uses figurative devices such as personification and pathetic fallacy to highlight how his clarity on the topic is obfuscated and nature is an unusual force of nature
  • Stevenson repeats the motif of the juggernaut to emphasise again how malicious he is
• Detestable character, Dr. Hyde.

  • The fast pacing of his phrasing, via the use of parenthesis verbs such as leaked and the adjective sudden add tension and suspense to his character
  • hyde It is imagined by utterson to be of mercy; personification of mercy is figurative device used to further dehumanise hude
  • Hydes Lack of eye contact ’ he did not look at the lawyer in the face… Without lookingup ’ demonstrates poor manners/etiquette and present him as inhumane and against the Victorian ideal of a gentleman
• Detestable character of Mr. Hyde.

  • In the discourse between hyde and uttersob the former is very curt in his response and demonstrated by Stevenson use of truncated sentences. The antithesis of the more proper manner is which all the characters speak to each other.
  • Stevenson description of speech terms such as savage horse and husky whispering and some broken voice and further emphasises his character and anthropomorphism him through the onomatopoeia and illusion to animals
• Detestable character of Mr. Hyde.

  • decbed as pale + dwrfsh gave impression of deformity w/out any nameable malformation, had displeasing smile ‘again touching on the pseudoscience of physiognomy + inference in society that physical deformity equated to poor character
  • rhetorical q by Mr utter can it be the old story of Dr fell? ref nursry ryme I do not like the, Dr. Fell by l Satirical Eng poet Tom Brown - 1680. popular rhyme about dislike of smon for na reason I do not like the doctor fell//the reason why I cannot tell//but I know, and I know it well//I do not like thee dr fell’
• Duality of man

  • In this chapter utterson proclaim ‘ if he be Mr. Hyde,’ he had thought,’ I should be Mr. Seek’ is here that we are introduced to the duplication meaning behind each character name
  • Not only is the homophone for as explained here, implying that Jack is hiding behind her, but other names follow suit with similar pun for example, je in French and kill
• The duality of man

  • ‘ he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’ emphasises the blurring of boundaries, rejection of the unusual rules and expectations and the duality of Mr. Hyde. This is highlighted by Stevenson through the use of hyberolic alliteration. ‘ murderous mixture.’
  • Parallelism of uttersin appeal to’ God’ and the juxtaposition of ‘ Satan signature’ is used to contrast the good and evil of the two characters
• Topic sentence

  The duality of man is explored in chapter 3 through parallelism of phrasing and puns
• The supernatural

  • hyde appears in utterneson dream , this is somehow supernaturally able to haunt him, reflecting utterson complete obsession with the crime
  • hydes ghostly operation is also used to emphasise his ability to disturb the order of the supernatural world and engage the hero, which is a classical trope in Gothic literature, this demonstrates in the quote ‘ there would standby side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding’
  • The pathetic fallacy of ‘ dead hour’ add an Eevee tone to the setting and ulludes to the undead
• The supernatural

  • The apparition of hydr is described as able to ‘ glide… Steadily… Most swiftly, even too dizziness through wider labyrinth of led city, at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming’
  • The adverbs ‘ swiftly’ and ‘ stealthily’ aim to give supernatural abilities to the image of Hyde and leave the reader afraid of his unbridled power
• The supernatural

  • The term ‘ labyrinth’ Alludes to the story of the monstrous minotaur in Greek mythology, who has the head of a ball but the body of a man representing the primal fear of the unknown the evil of hyde as well as the duality of jekyll/Hyde
  • The apparition has ‘ no face, or known that baffled him and melted before his eyes’ because utterson is yet to uncover the truth about hyde this is haunted by the fear of the unknown, further reflecting in the prior descriptions of Mr Hyde as being very difficulty describe, adding to the Gothic horror of the novela
• The supernatural

  • hd + has ‘odd lke footstep’ + ‘ extrodinry qcknes’, emph on lack of nrm characteristics+phaps ++ emphasisin 👻-like qualitis
  • answrs hd sys said ‘🆒y’ ,++ metphricl presntatin of Hd as spirt, oftn assiated w/drop ntemp
  • ‘mr. Hd shrank bck w/a hissin intake of the breath.‘ ontomatopoeia ‘hissin‘ anthropomorphises hd+alludes to cmmon equation of 👺 -serpent, ref to biblic stry-Genesis. Hd parallels to underwrld,+ devlish connotations could be used as mockry by Stev. hd craftd w 👺 qualitys, ironicly, he only indulgn innate desirs bare repressn ,ppl fearful of hd cus..
• The supernatural appears/God to help him explain nature of his confusion, and once again anthropomorphises character
• Troglodyte


  A cave-dwelling early human
• Troglodyte


  Implies he rejects norms of modern people
• The supernatural appearances could be microcosms for the disgust and fear Victorian people had towards anything that challenged rigid social norms
• Foul smells are usually associated with the dead
• The supernatural

  • ‘clay continenet‘ is archiac term meaning ‘ container’ in this passage referring to hydes bdy which is anthropolmised
  • The sibilance of ‘ Satan signature’ creates a hissing sound, alluding to the separatine qualities of Hyde which is suggestive of his equation to the devil and to sin
  • The relationship between hyde and Jekyll is even assumed by uttersn to be the result of ‘ the ghost of some old sin’
• Irony


  • dr lanyon states ‘ I have seen devilish little of the man’ in reference to Dr Jekyll, which has dramatic irony to the novel upon a second reading of the text when we know that Jekyll nd Hyde one, as this phrasing subtly foreshadows to this fact
  • The parallelism of the hyperbolic euphemism ‘ devilish little ‘ in reference to lack of meeting with jackal is used to him to the reader the Jekyll and Hyde one as this parallels the prior descriptions of Hyde as ‘devilish’ and ‘small’
• Irony 


  • The relationship between Hyde and Jekyll is even assumed by utterson to be the result of ‘ the cancer of some concealed disgrace; punishment coming,pede claudo’ which foreshadows the truth. ‘Pede claudo ‘ is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ’ pede poena claudo’ meaning that punishment will come limping. As we know that hyde has a limp., through the use of his walking stick and poor stature, the dramatic irony upon later reading is clear
• Topic sentence


  • Hide is anthropomoised Stephenson to emphasise his lack of normal human characteristics like empathy
  • Stevenson use of supernatural motives add to the Gothic literature stay creating suspense and fear for the reader
  • Irene is used as a literacy device in chapter 3 throughout the exploitation of and parallelism to entertain the reader and create dramatic irony when reading the novel again