The Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Has yourself, as a reader, ever felt suspense while reading a story? The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a suspenseful and anxiety filled story. It is a story of a doctor, Dr. Jekyll, who performs experiments on himself to try to separate his evil side, Mr. Hyde, from his good side as two separate people. The doctor later kills himself at the end of the story. The plot itself is suspenseful, but the fact that the author wrote it in Mr. Utterson’s point of view makes the story even more thrilling. The author writes this story in Mr. Utterson’s point of view to make the story more suspenseful because, Mr. Utterson knows as much as the reader does, he is constantly finding out pieces of the “strange case”, and he pieces the final conclusion of the experiments together. …show more content…
Utterson is a longtime friend of Dr. Jekyll. He starts noticing a lot of unusual behaviors among Jekyll. Utterson is also hearing and seeing crazy actions of a suspicious man named Mr. Hyde. Actions such as, Mr. Hyde pummeling a small girl and killing a man. As the reader and Mr. Utterson, it is clear that these men are completely different people. If the story was told from Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde’s standpoint, the reader would have known about Jekyll’s experiments in depth. The audience goes through rest of the story before they figure out the men are one being. If the story was told by another character, the story would have had a less suspenseful