He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point . If the definition is on Wiktionary, but there are multiple definitions and it is not clear which is the right one, add a footnote to clarify. Jekyll’s stages of abjectiontowards the endwhich dexterously illustrates Stevenson’s sense of the body becoming different from itself, flowing out towards a discourse delinked from the heteronormative mesh. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. 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.

If after reading Lanyon's narrative, there are still unanswered questions, Utterson is then to read the large, sealed packet containing Jekyll's "confession. In other words, whereas many of the other Chapters concern themselves with only one single incident, this Chapter is crowded with many incidents. Although the opening scene also contains vaguely supernatural elements, particularly in the strange dread that Hyde inspires, Stevenson likely intended his readers to enter the novel believing it to be nothing more than a mystery story. This annotation edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's account of man's capacity for evil is as powerful today as it was on first publication in 1886. I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black, sneering coolness—frightened too, I could see that— but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.Utterson is astounded to have found a book, untouched by Hyde and loved by Jekyll, however, Jekyll has annotated this book, suggesting that he thought he could have improved it.

Use CGP Online Editions for your own personal use, including things like studying, classroom teaching, lesson planning and in-school training. Stevenson is one of my favorite authors and this is my first annotation project, probably his most famous story. When a murder puts London on alert, lawyer Gabriel Utterson embarks on a quest to unravel the mysterious connection between the murderer and his old friend and client, the esteemed Dr. It is his usual routine on a Sunday to read until late but tonight he goes to his private safe and finds the will that has been entrusted to him by a Dr. The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.Most of the other Chapters present incidents: "Story [or Incident] of the Door," "Incident of the Letter," "Remarkable Incident of Dr.