Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Mood Essay

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. He was interested in what made up a person's character, how they could be good and evil at the same time. He had a nightmare, and,within three days you had the story. In this novel, Stevenson uses imagery, diction and details to create an overall mysterious mood. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson uses imagery to create a mysterious mood. ¨The door… was blistered and distained¨ (49). This helps to create a mysterious mood because it makes the reader wonder about what caused the door to become that way. ¨Jekyll wrote… I mean from a henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion¨ (89). This makes the reader wonder why he feels like he has to be alone.¨ Mr. Hyde had disappeared… much of his past was unearthed takes came out of the man's cruelty, at once so

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. When he says ¨The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness¨, (76) this makes the reader wonder about what made him feel this way. ¨It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make;... he began longing for advice¨ (77). This makes the reader wonder what happened to make him change his opinion. These are examples from the novel of how Stevenson uses diction to create a mysterious mood.
Stevenson also uses details to create a mysterious mood. An example of this is “the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor with their pockets inside out,”(72) definitely shows the mysterious mood because it makes you wonder why they were in such a hurry. Another example is “ sinister block of building,”(49) this creates a mysterious mood because it makes you wonder what happened to the building. The final example of a mysterious mood is “grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a nature of the spirit”(113). These shows how he uses the details to enhance the mysterious mood of the