Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Chapter 10
Explanation and Analysis—Vicarious Depravity:

The majority of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is written in a third-person omniscient style, but the final, crucial chapter is written from Dr. Jekyll’s perspective. The section begins with Jekyll’s account of Hyde’s attack on a young girl:

Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering […] I met with one accident which, as it brought on no consequence, I shall no more than mention.