The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde characters
Mr. Enfield is a minor character in the novel. Mr. Enfield is a friend of Utterson's, with whom he takes Sunday walks. He is the one who first tells Utterson the story of Mr. Hyde’s violence. He is a good example of the secrecy and repression that...
Mr. Edward Hyde was short, dressed very simply, but even at such a distance, the notary felt in him something repulsive. Mr. Hyde was pale and squat, he looked like a freak, although there was no obvious ugliness in him, he smiled very unpleasantly, kept with the notary somehow unnaturally timid...
Mr. Poole is the butler of Jackie for the last twenty years. He is the head of the suburban estate, who coordinates the work of staff, monitors the use of engineering systems at home, maintains a budget (in part related to general economic costs). He manages the construction of new...
Mr. Guest is a minor character of the novel. Mr. Guest is a clerk, who works for Utterson and discovers the similarity between Jekyll and Hyde’s handwriting. The study of his life is graphology. He knows that personal qualities are directly related to movements in handwriting...
Sir Danvers Carew is a very respected and prominent member of Victorian society who is brutally murdered by Hyde launching a police investigation. He belonged to the middle or even upper class, was adhered to strict values, among which were a sense of duty and diligence...
At the heart of the story (somewhere you can find that this is a novel) lies the theme of duality. In the Victorian literature, we can find many examples of duplicity: from Stevenson to Dickens, from Bram Stoker to Henry James, from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu to many other...
Dr. Hastie Lanyon is a reputable London doctor and, along with Utterson, formerly one of Jekyll’s closest friends. As an embodiment of rationalism, materialism, and skepticism, Lanyon serves a foil (a character whose attitudes or emotions contrast with, and...
Mr. Utterson is a notary, whose stern face is never covered with a smile. He was a self-contained man, taciturn and awkward in society, lean, dusty, boring, and very likable as well. In the circle of friends, and especially when he liked the wine, a spark of soft humanity began to glow...