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In this extract from Chapter 1, ‘Story of the Door’, Enfield describes to Utterson an incident that
happened on the street in which they are now stood.
“Well, it was this way,” returned Mr Enfield: “I was coming home from some place at the end of the
world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where
there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street, and all the folks asleep - 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. All
at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and
the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross-street.
Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough 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 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 to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought
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 brought out the sweat on me like
running. The people who had turned out were the girl's own family; and pretty soon the doctor, for
whom she had been sent, put in his appearance. Well, the child was not much the worse, more
frightened, according to the Sawbones; and there you might have supposed' would be an end to it.
But there was one curious circumstance. I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight. So
had the child's family, which was only natural. But the doctor's case was what struck me. He was the
usual cut-and-dry apothecary, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent, and
about as emotional as a bagpipe. Well, sir, he was like the rest of us: every time he looked at my
prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turned sick and white with the desire to kill him. I knew what was in
his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing being out of the question, we did the next
best.
Starting with this extract, explore how Stevenson creates a suspicious atmosphere.
Write about:
• how Stevenson creates a suspicious atmosphere in this extract
• how Stevenson creates an atmosphere of suspicion in the novel as a whole.
[30 marks]
, In this extract from Chapter 2, ‘Search for Mr Hyde’, Utterson reflects on Mr Enfield’s story about
meeting Mr Hyde and Jekyll’s will:
Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr Utterson's dwelling,
and still he was digging at the problem. Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone;
but now his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved; and as he lay and tossed in the gross
darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll
of lighted pictures. He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the
figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor's; and then these met, and
that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams. Or else he
would see 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, the sleeper
recalled, and, lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that
dead hour he must rise and do its bidding. The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all
night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping
houses, or move the more swiftly, and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider
labyrinths of lamp-lighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming. And
still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams it had no face, or one that
baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the
lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real
Mr Hyde. If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps
roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined. He might see a
reason for his friend's strange preference or bondage (call it which you please), and even for the
startling clauses of the will. And at least it would be a face worth seeing: the face of a man who was
without bowels of merry: a face which had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the
unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred.
Starting with this extract, explore how Stevenson creates a sense of mystery.
Write about:
• how Stevenson creates a mysterious atmosphere in this extract
• how Stevenson creates a sense of mystery in the novel as a whole.
[30 marks]
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