Quick summary of the main events in Jekyll and Hyde

Chapter 1
Enfield tells Utterson the story of the door.
People want to kill Hyde

Chapter 2
Utterson has a nightmare about the story of the door.
He tries to see Hyde

Chapter 4
Carew murder case
maid faints
Hyde disappears

Chapter 5
Jekyll is sick - says Hyde was manipulating him
Utterson thinks he forged the letter to help him when the writings are compared

Chapter 6
Jekyll gets better then feels depressed and Lanyon is on his death bed.
Lanyon refuses to talk about Jekyll but leaves a letter to be opened after J's death
Jekyll says he must live a life of seclusion

Chapter 7
Utterson and Enfield are on a walk again. They pass Jekyll's window which he slams shut.

Chapter 8
Jekyll/Hyde demands a chemical and is later found dead; a confession is left.

Chapter 9
Lanyon epistolary device- He agrees to meet up with Jekyll out of curiosity.
Out of curiosity he also watches Hyde turn into Jekyll. They are the same person

Chapter 10
The duality of man - transformed in a park because of his indulgence.
Ends without Utterson returning like he said - not believed or fatal shock (despite rational)

• Family members were a mix of scientists/engineers or philosophers/ religious minister.
• Stevenson was a child when Darwin published his theory if evolution.
• Dual nature: Good vs evil, science vs religion, Jekyll vs Hyde

• Lots of novels were 'Shilling Shockers' that focused on the working class as entertainment (Lower classes were illiterate)
• J&H was written about upper-class men, similar to the husbands of women reading these books.