Character Analysis: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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- Created on: 24-04-16 19:59
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- Character analysis
- Dr Henry Jekyll
- Respected doctor
- Friend of Dr Lanyon and Mr Utterson
- Prosperous man
- Well established within the community
- Known for his decency and charitable works
- Since he was young he had always secretly engaged with his bad side
- Does experiments to try and separate his good side and evil side
- Mr Edward Hyde
- Strange and repugnant man
- Cruel and violent
- Ugly and deformed
- Not a creature who belongs to the rational world
- Jekyll's dark side
- Loosed into the world with a mysterious potion
- Mr Gabriel John Utterson
- Lawyer
- Well respected within the community
- Reserved, dignified and lacking imagination
- A very victorian person
- Dr Hastie Lanyon
- Doctor
- Had a quarrel with Jekyll over science
- An embodiment of rationalism, materialism and skepticism
- Serves as a foil
- a character whose attitudes or emotions contrast with another character
- His death represents the more general victory of supernaturalism over materialism
- Mr Poole
- Jekyll's butler
- Loyal to Jekyll
- Concern for his master causes him to seek for Utterson's help
- Mr Enfield
- Friend of Mr Utterson
- Reserved, formal and scornful of gossip
- Mr Guest
- Clerk and confidant of Utterson
- Expert in handwriting
- Sir Danvers Carew
- Old nobleman
- MP
- Client of Utterson
- Dr Henry Jekyll
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