SETTING IN THE STRANGE CASE OF DR.
JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE NOVEL
• Nurul Zhafarina Binti Mohd Azmi AM1607000963
• Nik Ain Suraya Binti Nik Mohd Asyikin AM1607000814

Definition of setting
◦ a piece of literature in the time and place in which the story takes place.
◦ also include social statuses, weather, and historical period.
◦ It can be real or fictional, or a combination of both real and fictional
elements.

The Victorian age in England
◦ The common belief that every human
being has two characters.
◦ Society is divided into the rich upper
class and the lower working class.
◦ Dr Jekyll represents good and Mr
Hyde represents evil, yet they are
technically the same.
◦

London in 1800s
◦ Mr Utterson and Mr. Enfield, are walking in
the street’s of London near where Mr.
Utterson’s office is.
◦ A sense of a crowded urban suburb and an
almost hasty jog through the street.
◦ ‘’it chanced on one of these.. thriving trade on
weekdays.’’ shows that Mr. Utterson and Mr.
Enfield are adventures, seeing as they
chanced onto this busy street.

◦ This leads to a discussion of a specific door they pass.
◦ This door appears belong to Mr. Hyde, the strange man in the novel.
◦ This accident alerts the reader early in the novel to the brutality of Mr.
Hyde.

Dr. Jeckyll’s London
◦ Jekyll owns a fancy town house with a
tumble down lab on the back as he is
wealthy, cultured, and well-educated.
◦ The town house is described as having
an ‘open fire’ in the front hall.
◦ This represents Jekyll as it is warm and
inviting and hugely welcoming – all
things that match Jekyll’s character.

◦ Jekyll’s ‘’comfortable’’ house is being
contrasted with the ‘’sinister’’
laboratory.
◦ He transforms the laboratory from a
place of ordinary science into a place
of dark experiments.
◦ The house is cluttered emitting a
sense of anarchy and has many things
strewn across his floors.

Dr Hyde’s London
◦ Mr. Hyde is most at home in the dark,
foggy streets of London.
◦ The less respectable parts of London are
associated with darkness.
◦ Soho was an area associated with poverty
and also immorality.

◦ Fog is always over the city much alike
evil will always be in man.
◦ Its will not leave the city until the evil
in the city vanishes so Hyde needs to
leave Jekyll’s body.
◦ Hyde is a reflection of Satan and his
actions are reflected by the
continuous presence of the fog.

Mr Utterson’s Office
◦ This office is an typical lawyer’s office of the time period and includes a
space where his clerk, Mr. Guest works.
◦ He is the one who discovers the handwriting similarity between notes
from Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll.
◦ This event also involves a scene where Utterson discusses Hyde’s letter
with his secretary, Mr. Guest.

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