... Hyde, where does Hyde come from, and why does Jekyll protect Hyde. I think that Stevenson's use of suspense works very well as it makes you want to read more to find out what is going to happen to Jekyll, or Hyde, or whomever the story is focusing on at any particular point. Gothic novels use different witnesses and narrators to give the reader a different perspective of what is happening in the story. Such as Utterson's angle of well wishing towards Jekyll, the omniscient narrators point of indifference and Lanyon's conflicting angles of both a well wisher and an enemy of Jekyll Most of the documents are found when Utterson is narrating, but the truth about Hyde is revealed during Lanyon's narrative and confirmed in Jekyll's narrative. I think that Utterson is the main witness because he is a respectable lawyer and is to be trusted with secrets and documents thus ...

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