The next chapter, ‘The search for Mr Hyde,’ starts off in Mr Utterson’s house, this is when he starts to become a bit weary of Hyde: this could be due to Mr Jekyll’s will saying that ‘ in case of the decease of Henry Jekyll, all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his ‘friend’ and benefactor Mr Edward Hyde; but that in the case of Dr Jekyll’s disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months, the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll’s shoes without further delay, and free from any burthen or obligation, beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor’s household.’ Mr Utterson was a lawyer and a friend to Dr Jekyll so this he thinks cannot have been written entirely by Dr Jekyll, and he suspects Mr Hyde must have had something to do with it. Mr Utterson starts to have a nightmare about what he saw. He could see the lighted streets, then the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of the child running from the doctor’s; and then when they met, ‘ and that human juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams. He also had pictures of a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, then sleeper recalled, and, lo! There would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at the dead hour he must rise and do its bidding.’ I think the figure in these two pictures is meant to represent Hyde. In the first instance it is him treading on the small child, and the second picture is him going into Dr Jekyll’s room and blackmailing him. This nightmare leaves Utterson picturing a child being crushed at every street corner. But Utterson still cannot picture his face. He decides to haunt the door where Mr Hyde went after crushing the child. He did this so that he would maybe see his face, and help to clear up the mystery. When he does finally see him, he describes Hyde as ‘ small, very plainly dressed; and at the look of him even at a distance, went somehow strongly against the watchers inclination.’ In this he is saying that Hyde wasn’t what he imagined him to be like at all. He then looks at his face and notices some form of disability but can’t say what it was. He had a displeasing smile, and spoke with a sort of husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice. All of these points made Utterson regard him with disgust, loathing and fear. This again brings in the fear that there is something that isn’t right about Hyde, but nobody can say what it is.
In ‘ Dr Jekyll was quite at ease’ we find out what the character of Jekyll looks like. He is a large, well-made, smooth- faced man of fifty, with something a little sneaky about him, but he showed kindness, and cared a lot for Utterson. This is a big difference to how Hyde appears which is part of the mystery involved. Saying that there is something a little sneaky could cause fear because it could mean that he is hiding something. Jekyll also tells Utterson that at any moment he chooses, he can be rid of Hyde, but that he wants to keep how he’s going to do this a secret.
In ‘The Carew murder case’ a maid notices Hyde carrying a cane, with which he then proceeds to kill Danvers Carew. She describes Hyde as a madman, who trampled his victim under his foot and then left him mangled upon the roadway. The body is left with a gold watch and purse lying next to it; this shows that there was no robbery but just malicious violence, and half of the cane that was used to kill him. This is when Utterson starts to get more suspicious because he discovers the cane used, is one that he gave to Jekyll himself.
Even though this chapter is set in the morning, darkness is still used ‘ a great-chocolate pall lowered over heaven’. This is the morning that Utterson has found out about the murder so this could be helping to portray the friends of Danvers Carew mourning after the loss. When we are taken next to Dr Jekyll's house, we find that it looks as if someone had broken in, looking for something in particular but not actually finding it. Also found was the other half of the stick and a burnt chequebook. This shows that in order to get rid of the evidence the murderer forgot to take the other half of the stick used to kill Danvers Carew.
When Mr Utterson again goes to visit his friend Dr Jekyll he learns that a note was posted through his door, he asks to see the letter- it was written in an odd, upright style and signed ‘ Edward Hyde’. When he asked Jekyll for the envelope though he was told that he burnt it, as it had no postmark. This makes Jekyll sound more suspicious as he only burnt the envelope not the letter. The suspense grows when Poole tells him that no letter was delivered by hand, only by post, and they were just the usual ones. Utterson gives the letter to another friend Mr Guest to look at; he notices that the writing on the letter Mr Hyde wrote is similar to that of Dr Jekyll’s. It is at this moment he realises that Dr Jekyll has something to do with the murder. ‘His blood ran cold in his veins’.
I think that in the next chapter, the element of fear is added because we are again being told that Hyde has disappeared. We also find out about his past and how much of a cruel man he really is. When Utterson finds the letter given to him by Dr Lanyon, he again sees the words’ not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jerkily.’ This again sparks fears about Hyde blackmailing people.
Overall in the whole novel Stevenson uses elements of fear in every chapter, especially as all but one of them are set in darkness. I think that the one chapter that isn’t set in the darkness could be one of the most horrifying chapters. This is because it is when Mr Enfield and Mr Utterson see the horrible change that takes place when Jekyll changes into Hyde. I think Stevenson builds up a good element of fear, but I think it would have been a lot more horrifying to an audience of the time, and not an audience now.
