How Does Stevenson Make This a Turning Point for All the Characters Involved

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How does Stevenson make this a turning point in the story for all the characters involved? In this extract, Utterson and Enfield were taking their usual Sunday walk, when they once again strolled into the bystreet in which Hyde’s house was located, but this time, stepped into the courtyard in which Jekyll’s house surrounded. They looked up, and in seeing Jekyll called for him to come and take a walk. His denial of the possibility is where this extract truly marks itself out as a turning point in the story for all of the characters involved, as Jekyll cryptically claims he is feeling awfully bad, and because he lies about why Enfield and Utterson cannot come upstairs and talk to him in his room. Yet, it was before this moment when one of the the first major turning points of the novella took place in this extract. Stevenson purposely wrote the story that Enfield would foolishly open the chapter with the naive thought that “We shall never see more of My Hyde”. This statement is beautifully ironic; Enfield believes that because of Hyde’s prolonged disappearance from the face of society, the case is closed, and that the “story’s at an end”. Unfortunately for all of the characters in this story, it couldn’t be further from the case. If we look into Henry Jekyll’s confession, we discover that slowly Jekyll does indeed spends less and less time being Jekyll, rather he is slowly transforming into Hyde without the presence of the dug. In fact, it was “only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that (he) was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll”. Because it was also clearly stated that the quantity of the drug was running scarcer and scarcer because of it’s increased use, Jekyll’s net presence was unfortunately decreasing, contrary to Enfield’s belief. It is this revelation that makes this moment one of many in the extract a turning point in the story, because

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