Jekyll and hyde
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- Created on: 01-04-20 16:32
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- Jekyll and Hyde
- Characters
- Gabriel Utterson
- a very respectable lawyer who is a friend of Jekyll and tries to help him all the time and find out the truth about Hyde
- Poole
- Jekyll's butler who has worked for him a long time
- Sir Danvers Carew
- a saint like figure beaten to death by hyde
- Dr Lanyon
- a respectable doctor and a former friend of Jekyll until his experiments became too much for him
- Enfield
- a friend of Utterson's who is also very respectable only appearing in the first chapter
- Mr Guest
- Utterson's clerk who is a handwriting expert and discovers similarities between Jekyll's and Hyde's writing
- Gabriel Utterson
- Events
- chapter 1 story of the door
- mr Utterson and mr Enfield are on a walk when they pass a strange looking door and enfied proceeds to tell the story of when Hyde trampled a girl then used a cheque from Jekyll to pay the girls family
- chapter 2 search for Hyde
- Utterson reads Jekyll's will and visits his house where he is told Hyde often comes it through the side door and the staff have been told to serve him
- chapter 3 Dr Jekyll was quite at ease
- Jekyll hosts a dinner party where he made Utterson promise to look after Hyde if something happens to Jekyll
- chapter 4 the Carew murder case
- Hyde kills a man in the street with a maid seeing it then Utterson and the police go to his house and find the murder weapon
- chapter 5 incident of the letter
- Utterson uses Jekyll's letter of invitation and Hyde's note to compare writing with the help and mr Guest who said the handwriting is similar
- chapter 6 remarkable incident of the letter
- Hyde is still hidden and Jekyll secludes himself. Utterson visits Lanyon who gets angry when he first mentioned Jekyll. Weeks later he dies of shock
- chapter 7 incident at the window
- Utterson and Enfield see Jekyll on a walk in his window then he won't come down and suddenly they hear a scream and the window shuts
- chapter 8 the last night
- Utterson and the butler believe Jekyll was killed in his office but instead find Hyde's body and Jekyll's will which left all possessions to Utterson also lanyon's letter
- chapter 9 Dr Lanyon's narrative
- Lanyon follows instructions in Jekyll's letter. He meets Hyde who created a potion and sees him transform into Jekyll, Lanyon later dies of shock
- chapter 10 Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case
- Jekyll tells the truth about all his experiments creating Hyde but then feeling overpowered and that he lost control of Hyde and the chapter with him dead
- chapter 1 story of the door
- context
- victorian era
- science vs religion year before book was published Darwin published his theory of evolution creating unrest in the very religious Britain
- people who were seen as different were kept behind closed doors or put into mental institutions
- the time of Jack the ripper
- the time when prostitution was at it's highest
- Stevenson
- he was interested in the double life of prostitution
- dreamed the story of Jekyll and Hyde
- he studied engineering to please his father so was seen as having a double life because he didn't enjoy his studies just like Jekyll
- victorian era
- themes
- science
- Jekyll and Lanyon were both scientists and science was becoming more popular since Darwin's theory was published
- reputation
- for Victorian gentlemen reputation mattered more then anything
- secrecy
- Victorian people kept anything that would ruin their reputation behind closed doors throughout the novela secrets are constantly being made
- duality
- every man has two sides an evil one and a good one but these make the man and cannot be divided however in the book Jekyll does this successfully
- science
- “He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind,” (Lanyon about Jekyll)
- “like some damned Juggernaut” about Hyde
- “somehow lovable” about Utterson
- “Man is not truly one but truly two”
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