Hey do you ever think about how the entirety of The Strange Case is told in the past tense. So when the books says “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way, he [Utterson] used to say quaintly” to us this is the beginning of the book, but to Gabe he has already been through everything. Do you ever think that he stopped saying this little phrase of his because of Jekyll. That he USED to be kind and trusting of everyone, and non judgmental of peoples faults, but Jekylls crimes and betrayal changed him somehow? That’s after the events of the book the greif and trauma changed him and he actually is no longer the lovely perfect comfort man we know and love but someone much colder, jaded, and isolated??? Anyway I’m doing great thanks for asking
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LIBERAL JEKYLL AND HYDE
GAYbriel John Utterson
Dr Henry THEYkyll
Dr Hastie LAIDnyon
Edward Hyde
FAGard Enfield
PooleBOY
Sir Danvers QUEERew
Mr GAYLORD
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I love (hate) how from the first scene where we actually get to see Jekyll, we see just how manipulative he is.
Utterson brings up the will. Jekyll immediately tries to change the topic to 'Bitching About Lanyon.'
Utterson persists. Jekyll tries to play dumb about the reason Utterson brings it up.
Utterson name drops Hyde. Jekyll looks uncomfortable and asks to drop the subject.
Utterson pushes forward. Jekyll tries to win Utterson's pity without telling him anything.
Jekyll even butters Utterson up, saying that the concern is "downright good of you" and that he'd trust Utterson over anyone else, and it works! Utterson begins to let it drop.
But now JEKYLL starts pushing Utterson, insisting that he promise as his friend to take care of Hyde should it be necessary, and effectively getting what he wants out of the will situation in the first place. And Utterson agrees!
Jekyll took what was initially an uncomfortable interrogation and turns it around so that he finally gets Utterson on his side without revealing a damn thing.
And that's where some of that horror element is supposed to come in - if he was an upstanding guy like Utterson thinks, none of this would feel calculated. It's all a perfectly natural way to behave when pressed on a sore subject. It's why Utterson gives in at all!
But we know Jekyll's selfish as hell. Of course he knew exactly what he was doing.
And if anything, it proves Utterson's main weakness is the blind spot he has when it comes to Jekyll.
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Dr Jekyll is pretty like green glass
Mr Hyde is pretty like gothic churches
Mr Utterson is pretty like burnt letters
Dr Lanyon is pretty like red wine
Mr Enfield is pretty like victorian fashion
Mr Poole is pretty like the sunday newspaper
(All of these pictures are from pinterest! ^^)
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JEKYLL: “I want to change my will.”
UTTERSON: “Not a problem, what’s the change?”
JEKYLL: “In the case of my death or disappearance, I’d like to leave everything I own to a Mr. Edward Hyde.”
UTTERSON: “Everything?”
JEKYLL: “Yes. Money, house, assets, the lot.”
UTTERSON: “Alright, then. Who’s Edward Hyde?”
JEKYLL: “Don’t worry about it.”
UTTERSON: “………..?”
JEKYLL: “… Don’t worry about it.”
UTTERSON: “…. Riiiight. (I wasn’t, but I am now…. Never mind, maybe he’ll tell me later.)”
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Utterson: I incline to Cain’s heresy; I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
Jekyll: *leaves all his earthly goods to Hyde in the case of his disappearance*
Utterson: ...Nevermind I'm gonna hunt down this devil and tear Henry Jekyll out of its grasp with my own bare hands
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Imagine being Utterson. You just broke down the door to your best friend's lab, expecting to finally corner Hyde and get answers to everything that has been racing through your mind-- to finally be able to wrap this whole mystery up to find the dead body. There's a letter addressed to you by your best friend, and so you take it back home with you. Leaving the small, frail body of the feared Mr Hyde behind; and then you read both letters, both by dead best friends. You find out the truth about everything, you find out how scared Jekyll was before he died, how he destroyed himself just so he could be free. He was a caged bird slamming himself against the bars to be free, and it still killed him in the end. It's absolutely haunting, finally realizing that the same feared man that had ended his life in your best friend's lab was your best friend. And now he's dead. The last thing he knew was fear, driving him over the edge and inevitably ending his life. To everyone, Jekyll will be forever missing; but to you, Jekyll is dead, dying as the man named Hyde.
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