Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Setting Analysis

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This novel by Robert Louis Stevenson has a setting that has a very important feature. We find the character Dr. Jekyll who is used to represent good while Mr. Hyde in the novel representing evil. Technically they are the same person but they symbolize the good and the evil that is characteristic to us (Sorensen). The setting of the novel is in London but relays heavily on Roberts's knowledge of his own hometown. The evil of Hyde grows as the darkness of the setting becomes clearer as demonstrated in hyde's house in soho and the lab in the back of Dr. Jekyll's house as well as the fog that covers the streets.This helps in creating the development of evil throughout the story. The setting of the novel is most important in bringing the different …show more content…

This darkness brings out the situation of the uncertainty that lay in the streets of London. The true picture of what lay in the waiting is symbolized by the darkness brought about by the fog such that the individuals are threatened to walk in such streets. This is why the streets are presented as empty without people who have the ability to bring the liveliness that is characteristic of the city life. The gossip about the creature that is out there to cause harm to the people plays a role in bringing out the streets of London as frightening places that many would dread to walk on. The setting has been used by the author to show the changes that happens in the scenes. The mood that is used in this case is used to indicate that something is about to happen in the novel. The fog brings out the picture of uncertainty as well as the dangers that lurk. In the novel, this fog hides Mr. Hyde Literally and it also cloaks this shady character that roams the streets of London. As we progress through the last chapter of the novel we get to see the fog becoming a very horrible storm as well as rain lashes. We also get to see that the streets are empty. This empty street and the unwelcoming weather bring the foreshadowing that something wrong is about to happen. It is here that the layer Utterson …show more content…

The lab has been significantly used in the bringing of the two different personalities that we see in the character of Dr. Jekyll. He wants to be recognized as a respectable man in the society but at the same time, he wants to have the freedom away from the criticism of the society. It is from the lab that Dr. Jekyll is able to get the potion that can make him transform into a threatening creature capable of inflicting harm on its subjects. His inability to come up with the right potion to reverse his situation is what leads to his suicide. Despite the efforts to live a kind of a double life the evil sides seem to have taken control of his good side and this proves to be great damage as the officers will have to hold him responsible for the murder cases that have been reported in this London streets. All these events in the novel have been successfully achieved through the evil setting that had the concealing features that would make the characters such as Jekyll go unnoticed. It becomes challenging for Dr. Jekyll to try to live up to the two different types of characters as there is always one side that will always try to be better than the other. In this case, the evil side of the character Dr. Jekyll prevails making him commit

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