Author's note: While reading chapters 1 and 3 a common motif was alcohol and other spirits. Alcohol is known to change personalities and completely change people.
While at the dinner, the guests who referred to Utterson as a dry lawyer…liked to sit awhile in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence, after the expense and strain of gaiety To this rule Dr Jekyll was no exception; and as he now sat on the opposite side of the fire - a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps. Utterson was dry—a word used to describe the absence of alcohol—and his conversation sobered the minds of the other guests—another word used to describe the absence of alcohol—and on the opposite spectrum, on the other side of the fire sat Dr. Jekyll. Alcohol is known to greatly alter people’s personalities after intoxication. It can create a dangerous beast from the ashes of a harmless person. People are embarrassed by having alcoholism and try to hide their ugly secret. Jekyll is the harmless man who is hiding a hideous secret. Alcohol consumption and parties are a popular motif, for right before Hyde went on his initial rampage alcohol was mentioned right before it. The alcohol and other spirits are a warning sign as to when Hyde will make his next deadly march.
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