Jekyll and hyde poole flavor1/27/2024 ![]() ![]() Utterson questions him about Hyde's having a key to "the old dissecting room." Poole replies that nothing is amiss: "Mr. Poole returns and says that Jekyll is out. Utterson surveys the room, "the pleasantest room in London." But the face of Hyde poisons his thoughts, and he is suddenly filled with nausea and uneasiness. Jekyll's elderly servant, who takes the lawyer in to wait by the fire. Sadly, Utterson goes around the corner and knocks at the second house in the block. Jekyll because he feels sure that he has read "Satan's signature on the face of Edward Hyde." a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness." Utterson realizes that until now he has never felt such loathing the man seemed "hardly human." He fears for the life of his old friend Dr. Enfield was right Hyde does have a sense of "deformity. The lawyer is stunned by Hyde's behavior. Then, with a sudden jerk, he unlocks the door and disappears inside. Hyde is not convinced, and with a snarling, savage laugh, he accuses Utterson of lying. Utterson asks to see Hyde's face clearly, and Hyde consents if Utterson will explain how he knew him. Jekyll's, and Hyde coldly tells him that Jekyll is away. What do you want?" Utterson explains that he is an old friend of Dr. Hyde shrinks back with a "hissing intake of breath." Then he collects his cool veneer: "That is my name. Utterson hears "odd, light footsteps drawing near," and when Hyde rounds the corner, Utterson steps up and, just as Hyde is inserting his key, Utterson asks, "Mr. Utterson begins watching "the door" in the mornings, at noon, at night, and "at all hours of solitude." He must see this detestable man for himself. Why, he frets, would Jekyll have such a man as Hyde as his beneficiary? ![]() Thus, Utterson returns home, but he is uneasy his dreams that night are more like nightmares, inhabited by Hyde's sense of evil and by a screaming, crushed child. wrong in mind." Utterson inquires about Edward Hyde, but Lanyon has never heard of the man. They talk easily for awhile, and then Utterson remarks that Lanyon and he are probably "the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has." Lanyon replies that he himself hasn't seen much of Jekyll for ten years, ever since Jekyll "became too fanciful. Lanyon is having a glass of wine when Utterson arrives, and he greets his old friend warmly the two men have been close ever since they were in school and college together. Jekyll's relationship to this fiendish Hyde person.ĭr. Blowing out his candle, Utterson puts on his greatcoat and sets out for the home of a well-known London physician, Dr. Since Utterson's talk with Enfield, however, the name of Edward Hyde has taken on new and ominous connotations. Jekyll's will has seemed merely irregular and fanciful. The terms of the will offend his sense of propriety he is "a lover of the sane and customary sides of life." Until now, Dr. free from any burden or obligation." Utterson feels troubled and uneasy. Jekyll's 'disappearance or unexplained absence.'" Utterson realizes that, in essence, the will allows Edward Hyde to, in theory, "step into Dr. ![]() The terms of the will stipulate that all of the doctor's possessions are "to pass into the hands of his friend and benefactor Edward Hyde" in case of - and this phrase, in particular, troubles Utterson - "Dr. There, he opens a safe and takes out the will of Dr. ![]() Utterson (the lawyer) eats, and then he takes a candle and goes into his business room. That evening, instead of coming home and ending the day with supper and "a volume of some dry divinity," Mr. ![]()
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