How Does Stevenson Make Us Feel the Evil of Mr Hyde in This Passage?

This passage is taken from quite earlier on in the novel, where the reader is informed of the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, where Hyde, yet again, has demonstrated unconventional behaviour. In the text, Hyde is seen as growing in power as Dr Jekyll ceases and you can see that this throughout the text and this passage . In the end, it is explained why this act of Satan is done, when Jekyll turns into Hyde permanently. Stevenson makes us feel the evilness of Hyde by using violence, the setting, syntax and the comparisons of Hyde to Sir Danvers.
A way how Stevenson makes the reader feels the evil of Hyde is the use of violence, such as ‘trampling his victim’. This is how he attacked the small girl, very early in the novella. Also, Stevenson makes us feel the evil of Hyde is when he ‘Clubbed Carew to the earth’. This implies that Hyde pushed Carew with such a force down on to the street. Another way in which violence is used is when Hyde ‘broke out of all bounds .... the bones were audibly shattered’ this shows how much violence Hyde uses to kill Carew, with ‘ hailing down a storm of blows’ shows how hard Hyde used his cane and force to murder Carew. The detailed violence shown how despicable and nasty Hyde is, ‘ like a madman’ this sort of behaviour would not be conventional in either the Victorian or today’s society, as this is seen as an act of cruelty, nastiness and most of all, evil. The use of violence creates a disturbing image in one’s mind, and it is if we can hear the bones being shattered. Stevenson describes the violence as if the reader was a witness of this dreadful crime, as violence through this passage as a key theme in the novella as a whole. This violence is seen in the beginning of the novel, where Hyde tramples on the small girl, right through to this point, which is crucial, in terms of the plot of the novel.

A second way how Stevenson makes us feel the evil of Mr Hyde is by the syntax he uses. Stevenson uses metaphors, such as ‘ a great flame of anger’ this presents to the reader that Mr Hyde is aggressive and destructible. Another striking metaphor in what Stevenson uses to make the reader feel the evil of Hyde is ‘ape-like fury’ because apes can be dangerous when provoked and also that this dehumanises Hyde is such a way that he compared to a fellow mammal. A third metaphor which Stevenson uses is ‘hailing down a storm of blows’ is a striking metaphor, because he compares Hyde to weather to describe how Hyde is attacking Carew, which creates a vivid image of how violent this chapter is, therefore creates a rather disturbing image in one’s mind. A metaphor which does catch the reader’s attention s ‘a fog rolled over the city’. This also helps contribute to the setting , because we know that this is not a pleasant ending.
The structure of this passage is a way in which Stevenson makes us feel the evil of Mr Hyde, by using the last words of the paragraph to create the tense atmosphere ‘ he had been probably carrying to the post, which bore the name and address of Mr Utterson’ this creates a eeriness, due to the fact that it had Utterson’s name and address on it. Also, the structure is important to make the feel the evil done by Hyde is from the character’s viewpoint this is from. In this particular incident, this passage is partly the maid’s view point, for as she was ‘romantically given’ creates irony, as we acknowledge what is about to happen, and this is typical of Stevenson’s settings. . Also the Maid’s viewpoint helps to make the reader feel the evil of Hyde by the way she seen ‘the moon shone on his face as he spoke’ , referring to sir Danvers. The moon reflects light ,and can be seen as beautiful, we the maid sees sir Danvers as, but we see a tragic end to sir Danvers’s life.
A fourth way in which Stevenson makes us feel the evil of Hyde is by comparisons of him to Sir Danvers Carew. Sir Danvers is described as ‘an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair ... bowed with a very pretty manner of politeness. Stevenson describes Hyde as ‘very small gentleman’ and Hyde did not seem particularly interested in what Sir Danvers was saying. Sir Danvers was like pure innocence and Hyde is the devilish man who took the life of a good man.
To conclude, Stevenson makes us feel the evil in many ways, so that it creates a very disturbing, violent image in our minds and that it makes us lingering on, wanting for more devilish deeds of that despicable Hyde.