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Situational Irony
Key Examples in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Chapter 9
Explanation and Analysis:
The style of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde relies heavily on thorough descriptions and vivid imagery. Lanyon’s description of Hyde is indicative of the highly specific, visual style of this piece:
This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I could only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable: his clothes, that is to say, although they were of a rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement-the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches [...].
