How does Robert Louis Stevenson represent evil in Jekyll and Hyde?
… the books plot. “I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.” – Enfield What Enfield is saying is that Hyde’s ugliness is not purely physical, it is more metaphysical attached to his soul more than his body. An example of his evilness is in the first chapter, where we see Hyde walking straight in front of a little girl, but instead of walking around her, he walks straight over her and tramples over her “calmly”, and leaves her “screaming”. The reason why this so evil is because it conjures up the idea of physically harming a child, because it is not a human trait to inflict pain without feeling remorse. Secondly, in the Carew murder case chapter, Hyde is greeted by a gentleman (Carew), however, instead of …
