Enfield points out the door and says it is “connected in my mind…with a very odd story,” adding tension as we wait to find out what the story is and maybe to find out what is behind it. Enfield says, “I was coming home…about three o’ clock of a black winter morning,” instantly making you feel like something is not right. He then says, “street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession, and all as empty as a church - till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman,” once again adding tension as we do not know what is going to happen and a general sense of uneasiness because there are no policemen and it is three o’ clock in the morning. Then we come across the first real example of horror in the story, which is when Enfield talks about Hyde for the first time. “All at once I saw two figures: one a little man stumping along, and the other a girl of maybe eight…the two ran into one another at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming.” This is obviously horrific as Hyde ‘calmly’ tramples over a young girl and walks on, leaving her screaming on the ground. Enfield says, “It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see,” once again using horrific language - ‘hellish’. This is also an example of foreshadowing, as this happens later on in the book when Hyde kills Danvers Carew in the same way. He then describes Hyde with horrific language, “It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut,” saying Hyde was more powerful than a man. He then says that the “Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him,” once again adding horror as a normal doctor was filled so full of hatred for Hyde he wanted to kill him just by looking at him. “I never saw a circle of such hateful faces, and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness - frightened too, I could see that - but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.” Enfield once again using terrible language to emphasise how evil the situation was. Hyde then says he will pay the people to stop them making a scandal out of him. Hyde goes to the place Enfield and Utterson are standing at as Enfield tells the story and comes out with “ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance…and signed with a name I can’t mention, but it was a name at least very well known,” hinted at the possibility of a forged cheque. “The whole business looked apocryphal; and that a man does not…walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man’s cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.” This adds to the horror as Hyde has just taken a cheque out of his house in another man’s name, meaning he could be blackmailing that person or stealing from them. And when Hyde’s check is handed in by Enfield, he finds it to be genuine. Enfield then remarks on the possibility of blackmail - “an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Blackmail house is what I call that place with the door.” Utterson then asks if the bearer of the cheque lives at Hyde’s address. Enfield says “he lives in some square or other,” and says the house is “scarcely a house.” Utterson then asks about Hyde and Enfield uses even more evil language to describe his features. “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man so disliked…He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity.” On the last page of this chapter, they bargain never to mention the story again.
On the first page of the next chapter, Utterson returns to his home in “somber spirits,” and sits down to dinner “without relish.” Utterson is obviously anxious about something and is uneasy, adding to the tension. This something is Jekyll’s will, as we find out. Utterson “had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it,” telling us that Utterson could tell there was something not right about it and just couldn’t put his finger on it. This is also strange because Jekyll had known Lanyon and Utterson the longest and they used to be good friends. The will states that in the event of Jekyll’s death, disappearance or “unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months” Hyde would step into Jekyll’s shoes, “free from any burthen or obligation, beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor’s household.” This definitely adds to the mystery as Jekyll is handing over basically his whole life to a man he has known little over a month and knows little about. Utterson is definitely wary of this and finds the will ‘offensive’ to him as “a lawyer and as a lover of the customary sides of life.” Then we learn that Utterson thought he was going mad because of Hyde but realises that the figure he sees is not a hallucination but reality. “It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.” All the language used here is hinting at horror - “madness”, “fiend”, “detestable”, “shifting…mists”. Utterson then places the “obnoxious” paper in the safe - which is strange because it is only paper and cannot be obnoxious, but once again Utterson feels deep loathing for the will and its contents. He then puts on his coat and leaves to see Dr. Lanyon, one of Jekyll’s oldest friends apart from himself. This is strange also because this is at 12 o’ clock in London where the streets can become very dangerous. He gets to Lanyon’s house and is greeted. He talks to Lanyon about Jekyll. Lanyon says he used to be good friends with Jekyll, but Jekyll began to go “wrong in mind” and became “too fanciful” for Lanyon. He disassociated with Jekyll and said that he produced “unscientific balderdash” and becomes furious over this. This is strange as the slightest mention of Jekyll has enraged the ‘genial’ doctor. Utterson comes to the conclusion that Jekyll and Lanyon had only differed on a scientific level and asks if he has ever heard of Hyde. Lanyon says no. This adds to the mystery once again as no one has ever heard of Hyde but Jekyll is handing over everything to him.
At the bottom of the page we learn of the nightmare that Utterson is plagued with. Lots of horrific language is used here. “He lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night”, “that human juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams”, “and even at that dead hour he must rise and do its bidding”, “haunted him all night”, “and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming”, “and still the figure had no face”, “the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy”, “a spirit of enduring hatred”. All these examples emphasise the fact that Utterson Is having a horrific dream and the fact that he does not know what Hyde looks like is driving him mad. Consequently, we do not know if everything Utterson sees in this dream has happened or not because Utterson may be going insane. So Utterson sets off to find Hyde saying, “If he be Mr Hyde…I shall be Mr Seek.” Apart from this meaning of the word ‘Hide’ as in hiding away there is another which relates to him - raw animal skin - relating to the fact that Hyde is deformed in some way and is different from normal people. Utterson waits at dawn, noon and night for Hyde outside the door that Enfield pointed out.
One night at ten o’ clock, when everything had been closed and everyone was asleep, Utterson hears footsteps. As he had been here at night a lot, he had grown accustomed to footsteps, but “his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested…he withdrew into the entry of the court.” So even though Utterson is used to footsteps, he is very wary for some reason that we do not know. The footsteps belong to Hyde - perhaps Utterson subconsciously knows this but does not know how - which is why he hides in the court entrance. When Utterson speaks to Hyde, Hyde shrinks “back with a hissing intake of breath,” which adds horror as this is a monster-like reaction. Utterson and Hyde keep talking and Utterson asks to see Hyde’s face so he can recognise him again. The pair stare “at each other pretty fixedly for a few seconds.” Utterson cannot take his eyes away from Hyde’s face - perhaps there is “something extraordinary” about him, as Enfield said. Maybe he is too frightened with fear to look away or feels threatened by Hyde. Hyde gives Utterson a piece of paper with an address on - Jekyll’s address. Utterson instantly thinks Hyde knows what is in the will and is planning ahead. At the end of the conversation, Hyde shows his more monstrous side, becoming angry when Utterson says that Jekyll described him. When Hyde goes into the house, and Utterson makes Hyde laugh, Hyde “snarled aloud with a savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.” This shows there is something inhuman about him - he is extraordinarily quick and snarls with a ‘savage’ laugh. Utterson stood still after Hyde had entered his home and put “his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.” Even though Utterson has seen Hyde’s face, he is still mad in some way, but we do not know what.
Then we have another description of Hyde: “pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky whispering and somewhat broken voice…but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr Utterson regarded him.” Everyone who describes Hyde seems to be caught in confusion between words - take Enfield, he said Hyde was “an extraordinary-looking man” and yet couldn’t name anything “out of the way.” And Utterson instantly loathes Hyde by seeing his face but cannot explain why. Perhaps this is what is driving Utterson mad. “There must be something else…There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic.” Utterson seems to be going mad as to why he is so disgusted by Hyde and tries to find reasons. Also if Hyde is troglodytic he is uncivilized and knows no remorse. “O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if I ever read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend!” Utterson believes there is something truly evil about Hyde and decides to try and convince Jekyll, so he goes to his house, “which wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now plunged in darkness except for the fan-light.” This is mysterious as the house is in darkness apart from one light. Utterson enters and Poole, the butler goes to check if Jekyll is in, while Utterson sits. “But to-night there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy in his memory; he felt (what was rare in him) a nausea and distaste for life.” Utterson , who deals with hardened criminals and law breakers and is tough and never lets it get to him has suddenly been reduced to a suicidal madman by Hyde and feels sick just by thinking of him and as it says, it was “rare in him.” Poole says Jekyll isn’t in. Poole also says he only sees Hyde around the laboratory - which is strange enough in itself if Jekyll is not in. He leaves Jekyll’s house and says that Jekyll was “wild when he was young” and is being punished by God. Even though Jekyll hadn’t done anything seriously wrong, there was lots of little things that amounted. Utterson then decides to find out if Hyde has secrets, “black secrets by the look of him; secrets compared to Jekyll’s worst would be like sunshine. It turns me quite cold to think of this creature stealing like a thief. For if this Hyde suspects the existence of the will, he may grow impatient to inherit.” Utterson believes Hyde is stealing from Jekyll and may grow impatient to gain whatever is in the will, so he may kill Jekyll to speed things up. Utterson says he must change the will and help Jekyll.
