Chapter1 Jekyll And Hyde

The novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is one of those novels that encourage the readers to keep reading from the first chapter. There are notmany novels that give us the opportunity to choose whether to stop or to continue reading a novel. So, how does the story of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” invite the readers into thestory as a third person? An anonymous third person introduces the story by a large amount of descriptive sentences but the readers do not feel close enough to the story itself. But if the readers noticethe title of the first chapter: “The Story of The Door,” it may give another impression, a curiosity, and a lighter step in order to continue to read the novel. A story of a “door” and a “door” isintroduced to us, but what is the significance of this door?
The story starts with the silence but intimate walks of Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson. But the silence is once broken as the first gossip isintroduced by Mr. Enfield, talking about a horrid person and the door that they get to see. Nothing more is to talk about as they did not like gossiping so it seems to distance the reader from thewhole story. But later on, Mr. Utterson’s intrigue seems to give a parallelism to the reader’s curiosity, as we get to keep an eye too on that awkwardly described door: “The door, which was equipped withneither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.” The door looks like it is giving the reader a choice to keep on reading or to stop at this point. Just like you don’t want to know anymore butthe intrigue and curiosity tells you to keep reading. If the door is inviting the reader, this is one of the most mannered ways to invite a guest into the house, in this case, this story.
The doormay have lots of meaning to the readers such as to the novel itself. Secondly, as the door gives the reader an invitation to the novel, it also makes us notice about the background and specific...