Jekyll and Hyde

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1 The Story of The Door

Meet Mr Utterson!He is a very well-respected, serious but loveable man.

I let my brother go to the devil in his own way

In other words, he doesn’t like to interfere in other people’s lives

He enjoys nice long walks with his good friend Richard Enfield.

On one of these walks, they come

across an old, strange door.

The door reminds Enfield of something that happened to him recently and he decides to tell Utterson.

That reminds me

of something

How terribly interesting

This is his tale…..

One late night, Enfield witnessed a hideous looking man plough into a young girl, trample over her and leave her screaming.

People are shocked and

disgusted by the behaviour of the hideous man and

they demand £100

compensation.

The hideous man takes them back to the strange door….

Goes in….

And returns with a cheque for £100!

Enfield is concerned. He sees the name and signature on the cheque and knows that it belongs to a different, well respected man.

He assumes that the hideous man has either forged the signature or is blackmailing the

owner of the signature.

Utterson loves a good mystery and is intrigued by the story. He wants to know the name of the hideous man.

His name is Mr Hyde

“I never saw a man I so disliked”

“deformed”“extraordinary

looking”Said Mr Enfield.

Mr Utterson is very alarmed by the tale and wonders how the hideous man opened the strange door. (We find out later that the reason he is so alarmed is because the name Hyde means something to him!)

Enfield tells him:

“The fellow had a key.”

2 Search for Mr Hyde

Mr Utterson is a lawyer and he deals with people’s wills. That evening, he gets out a will that he has overseen for a Mr Henry Jekyll.

There is something very strange about the will…

In the case of Dr Jekyll’s “disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months”…..

Edward Hyde should be legally allowed to “step into Dr jekyll’s shoes” have all his money and possessions….

In effect – live Jekyll’s life!

When he wrote the will for Jekyll, Utterson was immediately worried that this Edward Hyde was somehow taking advantage over his good friend Henry Jekyll.

Now he knows that Mr Hyde is also a horrible man who is using Jekyll’s money, he is even more alarmed.

Utterson goes to visit Dr Lanyon who is also an old friend of Henry Jekyll.

Lanyon was a “hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”

Utterson asks Lanyon if Jekyll has ever mentioned someone called Hyde to him.

So Utterson goes home, none the wiser.

I’m afraid not. Although we both love science, he

became “too fanciful for me”. His scientific experiments are

“unscientific balderdash” in my opinion!

Utterson has terrible dreams that night, including dreams of the supernatural and the horrid Hyde type figure.

He is determined to meet Mr Edward

Hyde.

By the way….Mr Utterson is a very practical and rational man who in no way believes in the supernatural. It is probably

unlike him to have dreams like this.

“If he be Mr Hyde”………”I shall be Mr Seek.”

Finally…….Utterson comes across Hyde, asks to see his face and finds him to be hideous.

“The man seems hardly human”

They have a brief conversation and Hyde gives Utterson a card with his address on. Some place in Soho.

Utterson goes straight to Dr Jekyll’s house but his servant, Poole tells Utterson that Jekyll is not at home.It turns out that the strange door is actually at the back of Jekyll’s own house. London was such a maze of streets, that Utterson hadn’t even realised they were connected.

Are you aware that Edward Hyde has been using your

back door?Yes indeed, he is often here. Mr Jekyll says it

is allowed.

3Dr Jekyll was Quite at

Ease

Two weeks later, Dr Jekyll has a dinner party. Utterson is invited. Jekyll is merry and his dinners are always pleasant.

Utterson stays back when everyone has gone to speak with Jekyll.

Jekyll is not happy to be asked about Hyde and tells Utterson to drop the subject. He also assures Utterson that:

“The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde”

Of course, like Utterson, the reader wonders what this can possibly mean.

Before Utterson leaves, Jekyll tells him that Hyde is very important to him.

If anything should happen to me, please

promise me that you will make sure that Hyde’s rights are looked after.

I cannot pretend to like HydeSIGH

“I promise.”

4The Carew Murder

Case

Nearly a year later, one foggy October night, a maid is looking from her window at the moonlit night.

She is horrified at what she

witnesses down below in the

street.

A nice older man is walking along the street, when another, smaller man holding a cane, who she recognises as Edward Hyde, stops him. For no reason, Hyde attacks the older man with a heavy cane until he falls on the floor.

He then stamps on him, breaking his bones and leaves the man DEAD.

The maid calls the police who find the dead body. On the body, they find no form of identification, only a purse, gold watch and a sealed, stamped envelope addressed to…….

Mr Utterson.

So the police visit Utterson to tell him of the murder. He goes with them and identifies the body as……

Sir Danvers Carew.

The police tell Utterson that Hyde committed the murder. They show him a broken cane that they found next to the body. Utterson immediately recognises it as a cane that he had given to Jekyll some years before.

I know where this Hyde lives. I

will take you there.

When they arrive at the address in Soho, an old woman with an evil face opens the door and tells them that Mr Hyde is not home.

When Utterson and the police say that they want to see his rooms anyway, she seems to be quite happy that he might be in trouble.

The room looks as if it has been left in a hurry. There are clothes all over the floor. Fresh ashes in the fire show that someone has burned documents and papers.

From the embers, the

inspector finds the end

of a green cheque book.

They then find the other half of the

broken cane.Using the details on

the cheque book, they are able to find out that Hyde has a

fair amount of money.

5Incident of The Letter

Utterson visits Jekyll and they sit in his cabinet (a small room above his laboratory at the end of his garden – this is the building that the strange door goes in to).

Jekyll looks “deadly sick”

Are you hiding Mr Hyde? We know he killed Carew.

“I will never set eyes on him again”

“I am done with him in this world”

“mark my words, he will never more be heard of.”

Jekyll says that he has received a letter from Hyde and is not sure whether to give it to the police. He says it was delivered by hand and he has destroyed the envelope. He asks Utterson to look at it.

The letter tells Jekyll not to fear for his safety as he has a sure and safe means of escape.

Edward Hyde

Utterson had feared that Jekyll may be involved in Hyde’s activities and he asks Jekyll whether it was Hyde’s idea to put in the will that:In case Jekyll disappears, Hyde will step into his

shoes.Jekyll tells him that this was Hyde’s idea.

This convinces Utterson that Hyde’s plan all along was to murder Jekyll and keep his wealth.

When leaving Jekyll’s house, Utterson asks Poole whether someone delivered a letter today. Poole tells him that nothing has been delivered by hand.

Is Jekyll lying about how he got the

letter?

Back at his own house, Utterson asks his clerk, Mr Guest to have a look at the letter.

Mr Guest compares the signature on Hyde’s letter with the signature of Mr Jekyll on an invitation he has sent to Utterson for dinner.

Edward Hyde Henry Jekyll

Mr Guest is convinced that the signatures are written by the same person!

Utterson is shocked and immediately believes that Jekyll has forged the signature of a murderer.

6Remarkable Incident

of Dr Lanyon

Time runs on. Jekyll comes out of his seclusion and starts to entertain again. However this does not last long.

So Utterson decides to visit Dr Lanyon, to see if he knows what is going on with Jekyll.

Utterson calls at Jekyll’s house several times but Poole tells him that he is not seeing anyone.

Sorry Sir, Dr Jekyll does not wish to see anyone.

Remember Dr Lanyon from earlier on?

Well not any more!

“He had his death warrant” written on his face. He looked older, thinner, paler, balder.

The jolly, healthy chap?

I have had a

terrible shock.

When Utterson asks him about Jekyll…..

Lanyon says he will speak no more about him but that once he (Lanyon) has died, Utterson will find out the truth.

I do not wish to see or hear from Dr Jekyll

When he gets home, Utterson immediately writes a letter to Jekyll about Lanyon. The next day he gets a reply from Jekyll…..

…..Lanyon is not to blame for our falling out but I will never meet

with him again. I intend to lead a life of seclusion from now on. You

must leave me alone. I have brought my own suffering onto

myself……..

In less than a fortnight from this point, Dr Lanyon dies. After the funeral, Utterson finds a letter on his desk. The envelope says:“PRIVATE: For the hands of J. G. Utterson ALONE”

(and if he dies before me, then this must be destroyed)

Inside the envelope is another sealed envelope. This one says:

“Not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll”

There’s that odd word again…….. “disappearance”

Concerned for his friend, Utterson continues to call on Jekyll. Each time, Poole tells him that he will see nobody. By this stage, Jekyll is shutting himself away in his laboratory and even the servants barely see him.

7Incident at the Window

One Sunday, Utterson is on one of his walks with Mr Enfield, when they find themselves at the old door. They notice a face at one of

the windows above the door. It is Jekyll. He looks

terrible.

“I am very low Utterson…..very low. It will not last long, thank

God”

Jekyll says that he is not up to walking with the men but that they could chat with him through the window for a while.BUT……..before they get a chance to talk….There came upon Jekyll….“an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below”

Jekyll slams the window shut and whatever they see leaves Utterson and Enfield “pale” and with “horror in his eyes”

“God forgive us! God

forgive us!”

8The Last Night

One evening, Utterson is enjoying his dinner by the fire when he gets a visit from Jekyll’s servant – Poole.

I can’t take it any more. I am so worried about Dr Jekyll. I

think there has been foul play. Please will you come

and see for yourself Mr Utterson?

Mr Utterson immediately grabs his coat and goes with Poole back to Jekyll’s house.

It is a wild, cold night in March and when Utterson arrives at Jekyll’s house, the servants are almost hysterical with worry and fear.

Poole leads Utterson down the garden to the laboratory. Poole knocks on the door, telling Jekyll that Utterson is here to see him.

A voice from inside said…..

“Tell him I cannot see anyone.”

Poole is convinced that it is not Jekyll’s voice that they hear but another man’s.

He explains that Jekyll has not come out of the room. The last time he heard Jekyll’s real voice was eight day’s earlier, when he heard him cry in God’s name.

Utterson believes that the man in the room has murdered Jekyll but for some reason is staying in the laboratory.

Murder?

For the love of God!

The man in the room has been leaving messages outside for Poole to take to the chemist to get a particular type of medicine.

Each time he gets it for him, another note is left later saying that Poole must return to the chemist to tell them that the medicine is not pure and that they must send more.

Poole shows Utterson one of the notes. They both agree that it appears to be written in Dr Jekyll’s handwriting. Henry

Jekyll

It may be Dr Jekyll’s writing but I have seen the man in that room and he looked nothing like Jekyll.

There will be a perfectly logical explanation. Jekyll must be having a

nervous episode. He is not in his right mind. This would explain his desperate

need for medicine. His emotion will explain why his face looks different and

his voice sounds different.

If that is the case, they how do you explain the fact that the man was several inches shorter than Jekyll?! I assure you, it was not Jekyll!

Utterson and Poole both believe that the man inside the laboratory is Hyde.

They listen at the door and hear footsteps of a man pacing. Utterson agrees that they do not sound like Jekyll’s steps.

They decide to use an axe to break the door down.

Jekyll, I demand to see you!

Utterson, for God’s sake have mercy!

That’s not Jekyll’s voice, it is Hyde’s. Down with the door Poole!

The men break the door down with an axe. Inside, they find the twitching, dying body of Edward Hyde. It is clear that he is a “self-destroyer” – in other words – he has committed suicide!

The men search the rooms in the laboratory for Dr Jekyll. They cannot find him anywhere. They find:The key to the old door – it has been stamped on and no longer works. This means that nobody could have left the laboratory via the old door.

Lots of piles of the medicine Poole has been fetching from the chemist.

On the desk, they find a large envelope. Inside are several enclosures.• A Will – the same as the one Utterson already

has a copy of. However, instead of Edward Hyde getting everything in case of Jekyll’s death or disappearance – it now says that Mr Utterson will get everything.

• There is also a letter from Jekyll to Utterson dated the same day. Utterson believes therefore that Jekyll may still be nearby –or indeed may have murdered Hyde.

The letter:

My dear Utterson,

When you read this, I will have disappeared. I am not sure how this will happen but I am convinced that it will happen soon. You must read the letter that Lanyon has already given you and if you wish

to know more, then read my confession.Your unworthy and unhappy friend

Henry Jekyll

The last thing in the envelope is a large sealed packet.

The last two chapters of the novel are: Lanyon’s narrative and then Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case.

Utterson puts it in his pocket and tells Poole that he will return home to read Lanyon’s letter (narrative) and the new document from Jekyll.

In these two chapters/documents, along with Utterson, we finally find out the mystery of Henry Jekyll…………

9Dr Lanyon’s Narrative

The events in this chapter happened to Dr Lanyon BEFORE he became ill and died. It is like a flashback.

Happy, healthy Dr Lanyon receives a letter one evening from Dr Jekyll. He is surprised because it is not like Jekyll to communicate with him in such a formal way.

Here is a summary of the letter:My dear Lanyon,

I know we differ in our scientific beliefs, however, I know I can trust you to help me now. You must come directly to my house. Poole will meet you with a locksmith, who will get you into my cabinet, above my laboratory. You must break the lock of my drawers and take the whole fourth drawer – which is full of medicines and powders. You must take the drawer back to your house. A man will come to your house and he will ask for the drawer. You must give it to him.This is all I askYour friendH,J

Lanyon believes that Jekyll must have gone mad to send such a letter but decides to carry out his wishes.

The clock strikes midnight and a short,

hideous man who appears to be wearing clothes that are much too big for him, arrives

at Lanyon’s house.

The man seizes the drawer and its contents with a great sob of relief which frightens Dr Lanyon. The man mixes some of the powder with a potion in a glass and asks Lanyon……

It is up to you Lanyon whether you tell me to stay here and

see what happens, or whether you let me leave your house and drink this mixture away

from you? The choice is yours.

Lanyon’s curiosity gets the better of him and he says that he will watch. The man warns Lanyon that he must tell no-one what he is about to witness.

Behold!

Lanyon watches as the man reels and staggers and gasps as his face and body change in front of his eyes. Finally…….there in front of Lanyon’s horrified eyes, stands…..

Dr Henry Jekyll

Dr Jekyll proceeds to explain everything to Lanyon.

It is the shock of this event that led to Lanyon’s premature death.

Lanyon is shaken to the core. He is horrified. He cannot bring himself to write down exactly what he is told but at the end of his letter to Utterson, Lanyon says…..

The man who arrived at my house was Edward Hyde but the man who left it, was

Henry Jekyll.

10Henry Jekyll’s Full

Statement of the Case

This chapter is also like a flashback. Dr Jekyll has written everything down so that Utterson will understand what happened to him, to Mr Hyde and to Dr Lanyon.

Dr Jekyll wrote this statement AFTER Dr Lanyon witnessed the change.

Jekyll explains that while the world has always seen him as a respectable, hard-working man, his true nature was to have FUN and behave in a way that would not have been considered so respectable in Victorian society.

Jekyll realises that man often has two sides…..

A Good sideand

A Bad side

Sometimes, we have to keep one side hidden and if we do, it can make us feel down as we

can’t let those feelings out.

For many years Dr Jekyll dreamt of finding a way of separating his good, moral self from his more immoral self.

He then began to put his dreams into reality by experimenting with different chemicals. He knew that to take such a potion could be very risky and even kill him. However, he was desperate to try!

He explains that late one night, he decided to drink the potion.The pain was incredible as he felt his body change.

When the pain finally stopped, Jekyll realised that he had shrunk in height, his face had changed and he FELT much more wicked. He was to name this new self: Edward Hyde.

Ouch!

Jekyll could see that his new face and body were hideous but he immediately liked who he had become…….he was, after all part of himself.

He explains that the reason everyone who sees Hyde is immediately repulsed, is because he is made up of only evil and we are not used to seeing this.

Jekyll immediately tried the antidote and was delighted that he turned straight back to Dr Jekyll.

From that point, Jekyll would turn into Hyde whenever he felt the need to “let off steam” and go out to more seedy places and mix with more seedy people. He could behave however he liked and nobody would ever blame Dr Jekyll.

Jekyll covered his tracks by doing the following:• Renting a home in Soho for Hyde• Telling Poole that he must allow a man called

Hyde to come and go from Jekyll’s house whenever he wishes – no questions asked.

• He drew up a will that meant should anything happen to Henry Jekyll, he could still continue to live his life – but as Edward Hyde.

As time passed, Jekyll realised that Hyde’s behaviour was becoming more and more wicked. Jekyll became particularly alarmed when Hyde viciously trampled on a young girl – remember chapter one?

Jekyll started to do whatever he could to undo the damage caused by Edward Hyde.

The next part of Jekyll’s confession happened two months BEFORE the murder of Danvers Carew………He had been out for the night as Hyde. He awoke the next day in bed, feeling strange sensations. He looked at his hand, expecting to see Jekyll’s hand but instead, sees Hyde’s.

Jekyll is terrified. He went to bed as Henry Jekyll, took no potion, yet woke up as Edward Hyde!

He managed to get back to his cabinet – remember he had told his servants to allow Hyde to come and go from the house, so they do not question the strange man’s presence.

He took the potion and turned back to Jekyll.

When he first started to transform himself, Jekyll found that it was harder to become Edward Hyde.

However, it seemed now to be harder and harder to get rid of Hyde and turn back to Jekyll. He was having to use more and more of the potion to turn back to Jekyll.

He was beginning to feel as if Hyde was taking over his personality.

Jekyll realised that he had to choose…..

Be Jekyll, well respected and moral but not be able to have an outlet for his more wild side.

OR

Be Hyde and have no friends and be despised.

HE DECIDES TO BE JEKYLL ONLY.

Jekyll managed to keep this up for two months. However, he then gave in to the urge to become Hyde again.Perhaps because he had kept Hyde locked in for two months, he came back worse than before.

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”

It was this night that he came across Sir Danvers Carew and beat him to death – such was his need to let out all his wild, evil side.

When he realised what he had done, he rushed back to the house in Soho to destroy his papers and the cheque book. He then returned to his own house, locked the strange old door to the laboratory from the INSIDE and broke the key with his foot, so that he could not leave again as HYDE.

He then made a greater effort to just be Henry Jekyll. It was at this point that he had his dinner party. However, he was still torn inside by his two sided nature.

One sunny day, Dr Jekyll was sitting on a bench in a park. Suddenly, he felt nauseous and his body was full of pain. He realised on looking down, that he had involuntarily turned into Edward Hyde.

He was terrified – remember – the police are looking for Edward Hyde. He needed to get to his potions in his cabinet. However, he had broken the key and if he tried to use his front door as Hyde, his servants would hand him over to the police.

As Hyde, he took himself to a hotel where he decided to write a letter to Lanyon, asking for his help.

You may be wondering why Hyde would want to turn back to Jekyll, after all, he seemed to have been taking over. Well, Hyde, knew that if he was caught by the police, his time would be over, so it is in his interests to help Jekyll to help him to safety with the potion.

So after Dr Lanyon’s help – Edward Hyde turns back into Dr Jekyll in front of him. Seeing his friend’s horror truly upsets Dr Jekyll.

His greatest fear is no longer the gallows but becoming Edward Hyde forever.

The next morning, Jekyll again, turns involuntarily into Hyde. It takes a double dose of the medicine to turn him back. However, six hours later, he changes to Hyde again.

It was during this time that Utterson and Enfield happened upon him at his window. (Chapter 7 – Incident at the Window.)

This continued over the next few days. The only way he could stay as Jekyll was to keep having more and more medicine. If he ever fell asleep, he would always wake as Hyde.

Jekyll explains that he is now writing the end of his statement having taken the last dose of his potion. He is writing it in a hurry because he knows that Henry Jekyll will not be around much longer, as he is unable to find the correct ingredients to make the potion anymore. He says that he does not know what will happen to Hyde when he is discovered and he no longer cares.

“I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to en end.”

The reader now understands that it was Edward Hyde who decided to end his life. He probably took a poison just before Utterson and Poole axed the door to the laboratory down.

Hyde was possibly too much of a coward to face the gallows for murder.

So all our questions have been answered by the end of the last two chapters. We can only guess how horrified the cynical, rational Utterson is once he has read the narratives.

There are some things in life that cannot be explained by logic!

He will finally have to face up to the fact that…..