J & H

1. I think some of the allegories in the story are the ape like creature as a description, and two personalities. The ape like description caught my eye because its more obvious I think he is saying that he believes in the darwin theory of evolution to an extent, but it not sold on it maybe having the ape like creature as the bad character is his way of saying that were are much to sophisticated to be from them or that we all have those animal instincts in us that want to act out and we have evolved into suppressing these feelings. This plays right into the two personalities I think he is saying everyone has two sides and maybe not as drastic as J & H but everyone has that wild side that needs to come out but not everyone lets theirs out. He could be saying that through this example that the temptations should be withheld and not gone after because bad things come from it.

4. In the book he uses different styles of description to inflict horror. Like said there was not a castle but there was fog, heavy door, dark empty streets, and big building with only three windows on one side. These are all things that can bring about fear to a reader. When you are reading a story and the description is an foggy day you know something is about to happen because even in movies with the lack of vision like darkness and fog it excites and scares you not knowing what is happening right in front of your face, this is so in the book even if you are reading you can still picture the dark and scary atmosphere. This and the dark and empty streets brings out the creepy factor needed in gothic novels to portray the right emotions the author is intending to bring up. The heavy door on the big building with only three windows can be portrayed as type of a castle because castles have big windowless walls that protect it with a huge heavy door that cant be broken down. This could the authors example of his present day castle and his new way of starting fear in his readers.

5. I think that if the story was portrayed in another character point of view it would have been a lot different because not other characters were as understanding towards Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Utterson was. In this i mean that when others would have suspected Dr. Jekyl for being so close to Hyde, Utterson believed every word he said about hyde was trustworthy and he was gone when he was suspected for murder. Other characters upon Jekyl to try to get to the bottom of all the weird incidents.

I liked this story kinda felt the details were a little much at times i like details to be able to see every aspect of what is going on but sometimes i caught my mind wandering because the page or paragraph was not going anywhere and staying still because of details that the author felt was needed.