Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Point Of View Analysis

In the novella The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the limited points of view from Mr. Utterson only give the reader a specific detail to focus on, this affects the reader’s experience. The fact that the book is written in first person, from Mr.Utterson’s point of view, only gives certain information to the reader. It only gives details, like only seeing part of the picture. In other words what the character does not see the reader will also not see it either. For example, when Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield are talking about what Mr. Hyde does to the poor little girl, and how Mr. Enfield did not know why Dr.Jekyll would ever sing a check to a man like Hyde. Now if the story were to be written from Mr. Enfield’s point of view we would not know why Dr.Jekyll would ever sign the check to Mr. …show more content…
Enfield was telling Mr. Utterson how he felt about Hyde. “I never saw a man I so dislike, and yet I scares know why” (11). When Mr. Enfield tried to describe Mr. Hyde, he described him with fear, disgust, hatred, and anger. Giving the idea that Mr. Hyde is the villain of the story, making the reader fell some rejection towards him. But once the reader actually analysis what happened between Hyde and the little girl the reader may realize that there is no reason why Mr. Enfield should be feeling this way towards Mr. Hyde because it is actually not a big deal, it's just the way that Robert expresses it makes the reader fell that way.
In conclusion, the limited points of view that Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson gives the readers does effect on how they view the story, and how they feel about each character in this case (reading 1) specially towards Hyde, this is because of the language that Robert Stevenson uses is a very strong vocabulary. So this of course affects how the reader interpreters the