Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
Read the excerpt from Alex’s essay on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.The theme "Secrets isolate people from those around them” is repeated throughout the story. Dr. Jekyll isolates himself for mysterious reasons. Then, Dr. Lanyon isolates himself because of something that happened between him and Dr. Jekyll that he won’t talk about.
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms.
Suki is writing an essay comparing another gothic text to this excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Poole. "By the bye,” said he, "there was a letter handed in to-day: what was the messenger like?” But Poole was positive nothing had come except by post; "and only circulars by that,” he added.
Which line from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde best characterizes Dr. Jekyll as ill?
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