How does Robert Stevenson present Mr Hyde as a disturbing character to his reader ?
What you’ve got so far is pretty good. Picking up some good things – i like the window comment. (Notice that when Jekyll is in control his windows are ‘SHUT and clean’ – does this hint at the fact that Jekyll is hiding something? If we can apply this domestic/window metaphor to Jekyll’s person, it seems that he looks tidy and presentable, but he doesn’t let anyone see “inside” – he’s hiding something about himself. He’s hiding Hyde.) I’d avoid the word ‘ratiocinate’ – I doubt it’s a word that you’d normally use, and sticks out like an attempt to sound too intelligent. Here are some things that you might be interested in thinking about. Hyde is also a distrubing character because, though we know that he is evil, we never know what he actually does. Do we?! HE IS ALWAYS GOING TO OR COMING FROM SOMEWHERE. When he tramples the litte girl or when he kills the rich man (the only two “evils” we actually see) he is coming back from somewhere. Where does he go? What does he do? I think he’s a d
