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 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
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.
Which line from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde best characterizes Dr. Jekyll as ill?
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