Mr Gabriel John Utterson

Final Project

10/01/22

Mr Gabriel Utterson

Mr Utterson

“I incline to Cain's heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

03. Mr Utterson

1. 'Never lighted by a smile'
2. 'Lean, long, dreary and dusty'
3. 'Loveable'

From the first page of the novel, the text notes that Utterson has a face that is 'never lighted by a smile', that he speaks very little and that he seems 'lean, long, dusty and dreary'. Yet, somehow, he is also 'loveable'. His loveability may stem from one of the only interesting qualities that Stevenson gave him- namely, his willingness to remain friends with someone whose reputation has suffered.

02. Mr Utterson

Utterson represents the perfect Victorian Gentleman. He consistently seeks to preserve order and decorum, does not gossip, and guards his friends' reputations as if they were his own.

Utterson's status as the epitome of Victorian norms also stems from his devotion to reason and common sense.

Yet, even as Utterson adheres rigidly to order and rationality, he does not fail to notice the uncanny quality of the events he investigates. Indeed, because we see the novel through Utterson's eyes, Stevenson cannot allow Utterson to be too unimagim=native otherwise the novel's eerie mood would suffer.

Stevenson suggests that just as Utterson prefers the suppression or avoidance of revelations to the scandal or chaos that the truth might unleash, to too does Vitorian society prefer to repress and deny the existence of an uncivilized or savage element of humanity, no matter how intrinsic that element may be.

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Mr Utterson

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