Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2. In this Gothic fiction, it seems that Mr. Utterson serves as a detective-type figure. Do you see any evidence that J & H is a precursor to the “detective novel” genre? (Technically, the genre began with the Sherlock Holmes novel in 1887.) Be sure to pull examples from the text to support your answer.

- There are incidences where Mr. Utterson plays the part of a detective. On page 71, for example, states ...the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post." Again on page 71, it states "If he br Mr. Hyde" he had thought,"I shall be Mr. Seek." Later on in the text, Mr. Utterson sent out to find Mr. Hyde at his Soho place to see if they could find any evidence that he had for sure murdered Sir Danvers Carew. This is found on pages 90-91. Along with that, it seems that this book was written through Mr. Utterson's point of view so most of it to me seems like a wait-and-watch story.

4. One aspect of Gothic fiction is the Gothic castle setting. Stevenson doesn’t use a castle, but he uses other settings about London to create the same terror inspiring feeling (Look at the Literature of Terror vs. Horror below). Look over the narrative and, using examples from the text, explain how Stevenson built another aspect upon the Gothic setting: think of the city of London, think of the House, the door, the courtyard, think of the laboratory. Blog your thoughts with examples from text

- The first time the reader learns about "the door" is on page 63 being described as "...blistered and distained." There was never much explanation of the house Dr. Jekyll lived, but the other houses surrdounding Dr. Jekyll's was described as "...ancient handsome houses, now for the most part decayed from their high estate and let in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions." This iamgery pretty much sets up this vision of a street with old houses that dingy and slowly falling apart, page 74. Not a bright or colorful street, nor does it bear any signs positive life. The description of Soho on page 80 gives the reader a feeling of being uncomfortable or a little depressed for this city is not happy nor is it clean. "The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with it's muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and it's lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness,...like a district of some city in a nightmare." The text also mentions fog about three times on page 80 as well too which you don't read about in the other city where Mr. Utterson lives. On page 97, Dr. Jekyll's dissecting room's door is broken down for Poole and Mr. Utterson want to see what exactly is going on in there and if Dr. Jekyll's body is hiden somewhere in there. What they find inside though is a neat and somewhat orderly place with the fire that is going and the papers that are spread out on each table, but the mention of the chemicals in the cabinet somewhat raises the reader's awareness. What are all these chemicals? What are they for? A question, that is never really answered.