Stevenson’s novella represents a lot of evil in the intelligent way he describes things, he is very good at mingling characters characteristics with descriptive words to give an effective ora of evil, for instance the character of Mr Hyde “for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut. I gave a view halloa, took my heels, collared my gentleman, and bought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it bought out the sweat on me like running.” This is a perfect example of how Stevenson could take a basic description of an ordinary man but then give you an image of evil. The intelligence of how Stevenson represents evil is in characters that he perceives views of other characters in the sense that they are explaining what the character looks like instead of the narrator describing the character, this is a good technique if more than one account of description is used for one character, for instance if 2 different character where to account on a description of one character they would be different and could give the reader a more dramatic image of the character. In this case best possible example would be the character of Mr Hyde, as more than one character gives a description of him that gives the reader a more dramatic and mixed image of what the character looks like, mostly leaving the reader with a mixed description for them self’s giving them an image that they feel best suited at a general point which an event occurs. The character of Mr Utterson is the first to give a description of his first account of Mr Hyde and he dose so in the quote above, the way Robert Lewis Stevenson first introduces the character of Mr Hyde to the character of Mr Utterson is by letting him witness a modest yet brutal crime that is recounted by Mr Utterson, he opens with “for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.” this is how the reader is fist introduced to the character or Mr Hyde, althoe there has not yet been a description or appearance of Mr Hyde the reader is given the sense of evil from the character from a brutal description of something the character has committed.
But the next thing Stevenson choose the character or Mr Utterson to make note of was a brief discprition Mr Hyde “It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut” this description gives the reader the impression that the character is some what unstoppable, nearly straight after Stevenson chooses the Character of Mr utterson to give an personal account on the character of Mr Hyde, but gave me one look, so ugly that it bought out the sweat on me like running.” This particular account of Mr Hyde gives the reader more of an in-depth sense of evil as the account is from Mr Utterson own feeling, and through the book you are lead to believe that Mr Utterson is quite a down-to-earth person who wouldn’t over react or overcompensate anything he says. Stevenson choose this approach of description to give different levels of description to set a theme of evil better than a description give by a narrator.
Stevenson has a unique way of mixing evil in his story’s for instance he doesn’t just describe evil in his characters, he also uses evil in descriptions of things that happen or he uses it to set a scene or describe a place. Stevenson is very intelligent when he describes things, he describes things to an extent but then expands on it and gives it the edge of evil “althoe a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maids window over looked, was brightly lit by the full moon”, this is a good example of how Stevenson can take a simple description, expand on it slightly and give it a edge of evil. Stevenson also uses his characters to make accounts when he describes scenes, this is quite an import aspect as he can over emphasise an account from a character depending on there circumstance, but most importantly it sets a better image in the readers mind as they could possibly relate.
