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

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Enfield approaches the world in much the same way, serving as another representative of the commonsense approach.

This is one of the only occasions that we are given a glimpse into Utterson’s more personal reflections, revealing that despite his even-keeled nature and hyper-rationality even Utterson is not purely good.

The clerk, besides, was a man of counsel; he would scarce read so strange a document without dropping a remark ; and by that remark Mr. It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters ; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw , and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola . The novel can be viewed in relation to the love-hate relationship with his father, whom he depended upon for financial support during his lifelong struggles with severe respiratory illness, which led to drug addiction from his attempts to cope with the illness.

Hyde is the ultimate tribute to an enduring classic, combining revelatory and surprising information and in-depth historical context with beautiful illustrations and photographs.Most of the other Chapters present incidents: "Story [or Incident] of the Door," "Incident of the Letter," "Remarkable Incident of Dr. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object . Jekyll’s stages of abjectiontowards the endwhich dexterously illustrates Stevenson’s sense of the body becoming different from itself, flowing out towards a discourse delinked from the heteronormative mesh. Lanyon's letter reveals his deterioration resulted from the shock of seeing Hyde drink a serum that turned him into Jekyll. It was a large room, fitted round with glass presses , furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron .

Jekyll on the other hand, though introduced as a professorial man, has strayed off the professional path according to Lanyon. In essence, the links should guide and focus the reader to the main themes of the story, not irrelevant tangents that may distract the reader.

Utterson and Poole break into the laboratory, where they find Hyde wearing Jekyll's clothes and apparently dead from suicide. It is the assumption that the reader has an advanced vocabulary and does not need to know the definitions of commonly used and known words.