Chapter 2 Flashcards
What happens in chapter 2?
Utterson, prompted by his conversation with Enfield goes home to study a will that he drew up from his close friend Jekyll, which states that all of his property should be given to Hyde. He is convinced that Hyde has some power over Jekyll. Seeking to unravel the mystery, he pays a visit to Dr Lanyon, a friend of Jekyll’s. But Lanyon has never heard of Hyde and has fallen out with Jekyll as a result of his “unscientific baulderdash”.
Utterson geins to hang around the neglected building in an attempt to see Hyde. Hyde finally appears, and Utterson feels horrified when Hyde shows his face.
Hyde then offers Utterson his address, which the lawyer interprets as a sign that Hyde eaggerly anticipates the death of Jekyll and the excecution of his will.
After this encounter, Utterson pays a visit to Jekyll. We find out that the run down building that Hyde frequents is actually a laboratory attached to Jekyll’s well-kept house. Jekyll is not home. Poole, the butler, tells Utterson that Hyde has a keyto the laboratory and that all the servants have orders to obey Hyde.
The lawyer assumes that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll, perhaps for something that Jekyll did wrong in his youth.
“he began to go wrong, wrong in mind”
reference to Jekyll by Lanyon.
“the figure had no face”
Utterson in reference to Hyde. You can’t put a face on evil - it can be everywhere. Victorian context.
“snarled” “savage”
Utterson in reference to Hyde. Zoormorphism.
“Dwarfish”
“Deformity”
Utterson in reference to Hyde. Darwinism.
“the man seems hardly human”
Utteron in reference to Hyde.
“Satan’s signature”
Utterson in reference to Hyde. Sibilance, metaphor.
“troglodytic”
a prehistoric cave dweller, a person on degraded, primitive, or brutal character.
“This creature”
Darwinism.
