The last paragraph in "The Incident at the Window" chapter, has a great imagery element.
"'That is just what I was about to venture to propose,' returned the doctor with a smile. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but for a glimpse, for the window was instantly thrust down; but that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and left the court without a word." pg. 26
This paragraph talks about the encounter between Dr.Jekyll, Mr.Utterson, and Mr.Enfield. Apparently, Utterson and his cousin Enfield are walking along the street and they see Jekyll hanging out by his upstairs window. After greeting each other, and refusing a walk together, Jekyll freaks out and slams the window on them. Its purpose was to tip off Utterson that something was definitely wrong with his friend. The expression the text describes on Jekylls face makes ME have goosebumps thinking about how horrible it must have been to have frozen the blood of the two men. Its purpose can also be used to foreshadows what's to come. Something terrible must be happening to Jekyll for him to react so violently and abruptly.
2 comments:
I think you are right that the author wanted us to realize that something was going wrong with Jekyll (if we had not figured it out already).
Yes, Carl is absolutley correct. If anyone who has read to where they were supposed to by now then they should know that something is wrong with Dr. Jekyll.
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