“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

• How does this statement make the reader feel about Dr Jekyll’s situation and character? What can you say about the connotations of the words used to describe his predicament? Is Jekyll repentant?

• How does the statement affect the relationship between Utterson and Dr Jekyll? What are the effects of such a plea on their friendship? Is this verbal sabotage? Is Jekyll ashamed by his predicament?

• ( You might want to think about the effects of the word choices employed by Jekyll upon both the reader and Utterson-as-reader. ( The reader within the text).

• This list is by no means exhaustive. Add your own thoughts.

• Uncomfortable, alarmed, repentant, anxious, uneasy, fascinated, protective, acceptant, arrogant, theatrical, the invocation of the supernatural, insane, doomed, reflective, suicidal, grandiose, moral choices, secretive, furtive, diabolical, undermined, excluding, cruel, private, Macbeth-like, horrified, judgemental. Ambiguous, punitive, punishing, sacrificial, martyr-like, compromised, alienated, ashamed, ironically heroic, ill-fated, horribly intimate.