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and Mr.Hyde
ofDr.Jekyll
TheAnatomy
IRVING S. SAPOSNIK
'In Paul Willstach,Richard Mansfield: The Man and the Actor (New
York, 1909), facing p. 146. Mansfield played Hyde as a manifestation
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II
The three separable narrative voices-Enfield, Lanyon,
Jekyll-are placed in successive order so that they add in-
creasingrhetoricaland psychologicaldimensionto the events
theydescribe.In contrastto othermultiplenarrativeswhose
several perspectivesoftenraise questionsof subjectivetruth
and moral ambiguity,the individualnarrativesin Jekylland
Hyde provide a linear regularityof information,an incre-
mental catalogue of attitudes toward Hyde's repulsiveness
and Jekyll'sdecline.,Enfield's narrativeis the briefestas it
describesHyde tramplinga littlegirl. The salient itemshere
are Enfield's unsuccessfulattemptsat objectivityand the
horrifiedreactionsof the other spectators.To Enfield it is
not the collisionitself which is of primaryimportancebut
Hyde's casual indifferenceto the screamingagonies of his
victim.Hyde violatesa normof respectablebehaviorand his
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IRVING S. SAPOSNIK 725
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726 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
IV
For readerand non-readeralike,thecrucialitemof thematic
significancehas been Edward Hyde. Unquestionablythe domi-
nant character,his role in the narrativeis oftenconsidered
the fictionalmechanismby whichthe moral truthsare driven
home.Surelysuch a readingis partial,for it fails to approach
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IRVING S. SAPOSNIK 727
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IRVING S. SAPOSNIK 731
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN,
MADISON
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