Dr Jekyll And Mr Utterson Character Analysis

"The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" explores the idea that there is evil in all of us. Therefore there are many things which represent both good and evil in the story in this essay I am going to explain how Robert Louis Stevenson achieves this.

Robert Louis Stevenson set this short novella in London in Victorian times. London in Victorian times was full of dramatic inventions, the slow destruction of the rigid class system and the terrible conditions which poor people had to live in. London was covered with a thick layer of smog from what is the industrial revolution, which creates a mysterious aura in which to set such a dark story. London was at extremes, peasants were extremely poor but the rich were extremely well off. The sights and surroundings changed dramatically in different areas it could it would
'a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; 'I think Stevenson created Mr Utterson as such a 'cold ' but 'reliable ' character to help us see the two extremes of the good in Dr Jekyll and the evil in Mr Hyde. Mr Utterson 's jobs shows us a lot about his character he is a lawyer which means he would fight for truth and justice what is what he tries to do throughout the story, which represents good.

Then as the chapter continues we are told the 'story of the door ' by Mr Enfield who witnessed the incident. Mr Enfield first describes the scene as a 'black winter morning '. This sets the evil scene for the grim story to come the use of the season 'winter ' to represent the coldness of the season to reflect the coldness of My Hyde 's actions. Stevenson also describes the scene as: 'literally nothing to be seen but lamps. 'This tells us that it was very dark which is usually used in most horror stories to represent that something sinister is about to