Important figure in Victorian society

Social class one part of being a gentleman - upper classes

Profession - Army officers, church ministers, doctors and lawyers - gentlemen

Middle class - bankers and successful merchants aspired to be gentlemen

Characteristics

• Strong morals - gentlemen

• Be kind towards poorer people

• Plenty of people saw this as being less important part of being a gentleman

Benefits

• Enter well paid professions like medicine and law

• Respect of rich clients

Children

• Use contacts to arrange good marriages for daughters

• Well paid jobs for sons.

Utterson

• successful lawyer

• Good example Victorian gentleman

• Mr Utterson of Gaunt Street

• Expects people to recognise his reputation.

Reputations

• Obsessed reputations

• Often walk through public places such as Hyde Park london

• Keep their appearance as a gentleman

• Utterson and Enfield go on these walks regularly

Emotions

• Expected tokeep them under strict control

• Forced them to hide their desires for sex and alcohol

• Publicly snobbish about disreputable palces like public houses, brothels whilst visiting secretly at night

• Stevenson hints at hypocrisy in the novel.

• Pay large sums of money to keep activities private - vulnerable to blackmail

• Utterson assumes Jekyll is being blackmailed about somethingin the past

• Even Hyde who doesn't need to protect his reputation is prepared to pay money to avoid public scandal

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