Please help! Will give 40 points! In chapter 17 of the hobbit, who or what most embodies nemesis?

Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. from that time forward, mr. utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. in the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty, and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post. "if he be mr. hyde,” he had thought, "i shall be mr. seek.” how is mr. utterson characterized in the excerpt? as mysterious as depressed as determined as generous

Why does the host answer the guest with brief responses during the party?

In the song mallam sile sings in lines 113 through 130 the knife probably represents