Mr. Utterson and Enfield have a very good relationship between them as cousins and friends but they are totally different compare to their personalities. Enfield is described as popular men who talks to people very much and attend social parties very often because in the text it suggests that “he is well known man about town”.
Whereas Mr. Utterson’s personality shows that he is very quiet and nervous person who doesn’t talk much and spend time with people apart from Enfield. People can find Utterson lovable because he is helpful to everyone and he will never criticize anyone even his own brother.
“I let my brother go to the evil in his own way”
This means that Mr. Utterson gives his brother the freedom to do bad things or good things, however if his brother asks for help he will help but not criticize. He is also very self controlling, he drinks gin when he is alone. This tells us that he wanted to handle his money by not drinking expensive wine. His friends were from his own blood perhaps he didn’t trusted strange people. The similarity between them was that they both looked very dull and quiet when they were together and they cared a lot about their reputation and their class.
Reputation and privacy was vitally important in Victorian era because gossiping and talking behind someone’s back was viewed in a very negative way. They thought everything should be kept private in order to have a good reputation and self respect in the society. In this story there are a lot of ways in which describes how important privacy is and it should be kept private. Mr. Enfield and the other bystanders forced Mr. Hyde to pay the girls parents because Mr.Enfield didn’t want any trouble. He didn’t want people to ask him what he was doing late 3.00am at night because he was a well known man in the town as shown in the text “a well known man about town”. Therefore if the girl’s story wasn’t kept private people would start to question Mr.Enfield about what he was doing outside at this time at night, his reputation would be put down and people would assume he’s a bad person.
Mr.Utterson and Mr. Enfield think that reputation and being undisclosed is very important for them since they are very high class people. They think that most things about high class people should be kept private or they will not be respected and appreciated. Everyone had a part of himself or herself that they didn’t’ revealed to anyone and they were afraid to show it but when it came out they never talked about it.
The young girl who was attacked by Mr.Hyde, her parents took money from Mr.Hyde because they didn’t want their families’ reputation to go down. They thought if things go further the families’ reputation will no longer be the same.
The doctor who was there at the murder incident also went because even he cared about his reputation; he was also trying to save Mr.Enfields’ reputation because higher class people back each other up.
Mr.Hyde who murdered the young girl also cared about his reputation. He wanted the story to be kept private because he was Dr.Jekyll. If people find out that he is Dr.Jekyll then everyone will hate him and loose trust on him. No one will go to him and he will loose his high classed reputation.
Mr. Utterson is often described as; lean, long, dusty, dreary and dull person who never talk or spends time with people because he’s too shy or perhaps he doesn’t want anyone to know more about him. Although he’s boring and dull, people like him and they get along with him because he never judge people instead he helps them. He keeps him self away from the things he enjoys .This is because he thinks he will have more respect if he stays in this way.
This story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was about mr utterson trying to find out the strange cases of the murder and mr hyde and how does mr hyde know his best friend dr jekell.
