Tuesday, September 17, 2019
How Stevenson Builds Suspense and Tension in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Es
How Stevenson Builds Suspense and Tension in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde    After thoroughly examining the question at hand. I have understood  that I should comment on at least three episodes of the novel and  clearly stress out how the writer built up the suspense and tension of  the story. However I am going to look at techniques such as using shot  quotations and not being to repetitive. The episodes l am going to be  explaining are the incident of the letter, the remarkable incident of  Dr Lanyon and the Last Night.    In the Incident of the Letter, Stevenson starts of the episode by  telling us what Dr Jekyll's house was like through Mr Uttersons eyes.  He later starts spicing up his story by describing Dr Jekyll's  quarters as the," dingly windowless structure". Stevenson then also  goes on to give a mystic filling to the reader by describing the light  in Dr Jekyll's theatre as", falling dimly through the fogy copula."  Stevenson then went on to put a scary touch to the story by telling us  that Dr Jekll was," looking deadly sick", and that he, "held out a  cold hand," when he met with Mr Utterson.When asked about Mr Hyde Dr  Jekyll starts swearing out of knower and can be quoted saying,"l am  done with him in this world". Later on in the episode Dr Jekyll  produces the much-awaited letter, which he claims, came from Mr Hyde.    Tension can also be seen building up as Dr Jekyll cried out when he  spoke to Mr Utterson. Dr Jekll was described as he," seemed seized  with a qualm of faintness", because Mr Utterson was talking about Dr  Jekyll's will which he linked to Dr Hyde. Later on in the episode a  stunning similarity is discovered between DrJekyll's handwriting and  Mr Hyde's. The fog around the city is then described as," s...              ...that the evening  was full of mystery. Stevenson described how the,"scud", in the sky  was, "banked over the moon" and also that Stevenson went on to also  describing London as, "humming solemnly all around", and that the  "stillness", was broken by the "sound moving to and fro the cabinet  floor". Before the attack Stevenson put a note of scariness when he  described Mr Utterson as "filled with a sudden chill of horror", when  he had that Dr Jekyll had been weeping like a lost soul.    As MrUtterson and Mr Poole attacked the cabinet door Stevenson used a  high degree of tension and scariness to describe the sounds that came  out the cabinet which he described as, "dismal screechs", as of mere  animal terror". When they finally broke in to the cabinet the body  they found there was described as, "sorely contorted and still  twitching", and yes it was Mr Hyde's body.                        
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