'Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde' - review

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ENGLISH COURSEWORK – “DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE” The writer of a story ‘Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde’, Robert Louis Stevenson uses very good writing skills to create a sense of horror, mystery, and tension in his novel. He uses foreshadowing, setting atmosphere and mystery to put tension into the story. I am going to write about how does he do it in detail. Firstly I am going to summary the story of chapter one and two. A lawyer, Mr.Utterson doubt about that his friend Dr.Jekyll told Utterson to give all his properties to Mr.Hyde who was known as a strange and evil man. One day Mr.Utterson hear a story about Mr.Hyde has done so cruel thing to a young girl that he trampled calmly over the girl’s body. Utterson gets so surprised and he decides to detect about the guy names Hyde. But Dr.Jekyll who might be known best about Mr.Hyde does not tell anything about him to Utterson. Meanwhile Mr. Hyde commits murder and days later Dr.Lanyon, who was friend of Mr.Utterson and Dr.Jekyll dies suddenly. After these Jekyll disappears as well, Mr.Utterson tries hard to solve all the mystery and happenings.         This is the story from chapter one to chapter two. ‘Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde’ is so mysterious novel, and the reader is left in suspense by the end of chapter two. To explain about how the writer creates this mystery and tension we have to look at the novel carefully and think about the effects that each phrase gives to help creating tension. First of all,
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we can find some quotes about Mr.Utterson. In page 9, “…Something eminently human beaconed from his eye.” And “…But he had an approved tolerance for others.” When we read the book we are able to know that Mr.Utterson is very tolerant and noble character, which is directly compared to Mr.Hyde. The quotes make reader to feel that Mr.Utterson will be tested later on of the story. But the mystery is that how is he going to be tested his tolerance, and would he able to tolerate the test? Most of mysteries will be solved later on of the story. Mr.Utterson ...

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