Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Setting Essay

In the novela “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, uses the setting in many ways. He changes the scenery to set the tone of the chapter. It sends a feeling to the reader of what the scene is going to be about. One way the author uses setting to reveal a mood is at the very beginning of the short story. A setting of a dark winter day is described by Mr. Enfield when he is telling Mr. Utterson about the story of a mysterious man known by Mr. Hyde trampling a little girl on the street. In the novela Mr. Enfield states, “I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock on a black winter morning”. He then goes on to explain, “All at once , I saw two figures; one a little

In this chapter of the book the character Mr. Hyde commits the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. In chapter 4 on page 25 of the novella it states “Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.” This exemplifies the author trying to form meaning and foreshadow by describing the scenery. The entire town was foggy and dark; this shows the gloomy, criminal atmosphere. The author however smartly uses the words to make the reader visualize a beam of light shining through the clouds. This symbolizes the spot the beam is shining on to seem important. A maid from a window nearby was able to perfectly witness the character Mr. Hyde commit murder. The reader would infer something mischievous was going to occur by the author’s word choice, therefore the vocabulary set the appropriate mood for the viewer of the

Jekyll’s butler, to break down the door of the doctor’s laboratory. They were breaking in to confront the person hiding there, who was impersonating Dr. Jekyll. On page 37 the narrator states, “The scud had banked over the moon, and it was now quite dark. The wind, which only broke in puffs and draughts into that deep well of the building, tossed the light of the candle to and fro about their steps, until they came into the shelter of the theater, where they sat down silently to wait. London hummed solemnly all around; but nearer at hand, the stillness was only broken by the sounds of a footfall moving to and fro along the cabinet floor.” This gives the reader the impression that the finale is coming up. The scenery is described to make the readers adrenaline rush; it is to make them visualize Mr. Utterson and Poole getting into the room prepared to face the threats of what is in the laboratory. The way the author describes the wind pattern and silence being broken by the characters' frantic footsteps all puts together an image of the fear set into the characters, which sets the same fear into the