Concetti Chiave
- The story features a multi-narrative structure with four narrators: Utterson, Enfield, Lanyon, and Dr. Jekyll himself.
- Utterson, similar to Sherlock Holmes, takes on a detective role, closely connected to Dr. Jekyll.
- The supernatural elements are set in 19th-century London, with a mysterious door linked to a monstrous figure.
- Utterson and Enfield investigate Dr. Jekyll's reclusiveness, leading to the discovery of mysterious deaths.
- Dr. Jekyll's transformation due to a drug results in uncontrollable changes and crimes, ultimately leading to his demise.
The plot
it is a multy-narrational-structure in fact there was 4 different narrators, the first one was Utterson, Enfield, then Lanyon and Mr. Jekyll (himself). Utterson had the role of the detective and his/her character it was a lot next to Dr Jekyll. Its role is very similar to Sherlock Holmen of Doyle. Even if the history begins from a violent case or a homicide the history is not a yellow or a detective, because the purpose of the author is not to find the guilty and to establish the order of the things.
The supernatural elements: the landscape is London of the 19 century.
After some months where Hutterson and Enfield were worried for Dr. Jekyll who didn't participate in the social life but him was confined alone in the house for a lot of time, they decided to investigate and Lanyon helped them, it directed him in the laboratory of Jekyll and later they discovered that was dead. It died therefore in a mysterious way. After a few times also Dr. Jekyll was found dead in the laboratory. The transformation that happened with the assumption of the drug was taking the upper hand in him so much that Jekyll starts to also change without the assumption of this drug going to commit crimes and homicides, so with the purpose to put an end to such situation it decides to suppress the monster, and to kill had to kill him himself. It was the same case of Oscar Wild where him decided to destroy the image losing his existence.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è il ruolo di Utterson nella storia?
- Quali elementi soprannaturali sono presenti nella storia?
- Come si conclude la storia di Dr. Jekyll?
Utterson ha il ruolo del detective, simile a Sherlock Holmes, ed è molto vicino a Dr. Jekyll. Anche se la storia inizia con un caso violento, l'obiettivo dell'autore non è trovare il colpevole.
La storia è ambientata nella Londra del XIX secolo e include elementi soprannaturali come la trasformazione di Jekyll in un mostro attraverso l'assunzione di una droga.
Dr. Jekyll viene trovato morto nel suo laboratorio. La trasformazione causata dalla droga diventa incontrollabile, portandolo a commettere crimini. Decide di sopprimere il mostro uccidendo se stesso.