The Relationship Between Dr. Jekyll And Utterson

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In Stevenson’s fiction, Utterson is a celebrated lawyer, “a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile, cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse”. He gets the news from Enfield: a man named Hyde, trampled calmly over a 10 years old child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. All the passengers on the street condemn his behavior and request him to compensate for the child’s loss. Since the event, Utterson begins his concern for Hyde. For the whole development of the plot, Utterson is a important pusher. The secret investigation with Enfield keeps him and Jekyll a mystery relationship with each other.
Utterson and Hyde in whole story looks like cat and mouse, “Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of
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Jekyll to Utterson, we can clearly understand the relationship between them, “My dear Utterson,-When this shall fall into your hands, I shall have disappeared, under what circumstances I have not …show more content…
It is not a suspense novel as the original work by Stevenson, but also full of mystery. Utterson becomes a teacher of Institute for Deprogramming Potential Human, with the appearance of entirely bald. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are both students of Utterson, but they obtain the different treatment from their teacher. Utterson. “Utterson is perched on a high old-fashioned architect’s chair, thinking about Jekyll,and between these two points a line might be drawn, a physical link between them like a long nylon thread”(187) This is the relationship between Jekyll and Utterson. Utterson controls Jekyll, “Jekyll’ s right ankle begins to itch. Clearly Utterson has sources of information to which Jekyll is denied access.”, every time Jekyll does his own things, Utterson interrupts into his brain. “He thinks of Hyde”(198) appears many times in the story, and lots of “Meanwhile” to lead to the action of Utterson. In this way, the three people’s relationship goes intense in different places, but they experience the things at the same

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