![]() ![]() Hyde’s language also follows the same pattern as his behaviour. ![]() The evil incidents caused by Hyde increase in severity as the book gets nearer the end also Hyde seems to be less and less bothered by the things he does. “Dingy neighbourhood” The use of the word dingy represents that Utterson hates the underworld despite being inside it, you as reader can only connate that he is in this area because he has been indulging in one of the activities looked down on by the middleclass citizens. ![]() The novel begins with the lawyer Utterson and his friend Enfield in the underground area despite being middle class respectable people. The middle class often secretly participated in the morally corrupt things such as gambling, prostitutes and drugs. This was common in many cities in the Victorian age and Stevenson may have been involved in it because his father was middle class, though the middle class was critical of the underworld. ![]() In Jekyll and Hyde there is a theme of two sides of London, the morally corrupted underground and the upstanding moral part. “A fog rolled over the city” This is used as a signifier that something terribly horrible has happened. Gothic language is easily noticed as it has a strong relationship with death, dark and eerie things, for example. ![]()
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