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Dr Jekyll and Hyde - Nightmare City
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Dr Jekyll and Hyde - Nightmare City In Jekyll and Hyde, a sense of dread at night is one of the first aspects of the opening scene which is shown on page 11. It is here that Hyde was seen trampling over a little girls body - "The man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground." This event happened at night when the streets were empty; Stevenson uses this technique of fear and the supernatural effectively in this passage. A sense of dread and disgust is felt when the girl's body was trampled over "calmly", this gives a sense of the supernatural - an oxymoron. We know this was in the dead of night when Enfield "longed for the sight of a policeman", a marker that something was bound to happen. Hyde was described as a "Juggernaut" which evokes a supernatural feel for it...
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