Chapter Summaries Flashcards
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Chapter 1 summary
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- Strange looking door
- Enfield tells utterson about incident involving a man trampling a young girl
- Hyde pays compensation
- Enfield says the man had key to jekylls lab
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Chapter 2 summary
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- In Jekylls will Utterson discovers all possessions are left to Hyde in the event of his disappearance
- Utterson goes to warn Jekyll that Hyde can unlock the door, Poole tells him the servants have been told to obey Hyde
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Chapter 3 summary
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- two weeks later Jekyll has a dinner party
* Utterson raises his concern to Jekyll, jekyll laughs off Uttersons worries
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Chapter 4 summary
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- nearly a year later a man is murdered in the street
- a letter addressed to Utterson is found on the body
- Utterson recognises the murder weapon as Jekylls broken walking cane
- police find other half of cane in jekylls lab
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Chapter 5 summary
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- Utterson goes to Jekylls house to find him looking ‘ deathly sick’
- jekyll shows Utterson a letter saying that Hyde won’t be back
- Utterson believes the letter has been forged by jekyll to cover for Hyde
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Chapter 6 summary
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- Hyde has disappeared
- Utterson visits lanyon on his death bed
- lanyon hints that jekyll is the cause of his illness
- Utterson writes to jekyll and receives a reply that suggests he has fallen ‘ under a dark influence’
- lanyon dies
- Poole tells Utterson jekyll is living in isolation
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Chapter 7
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- Utterson and Enfield see jekyll confined like a prisoner
* Utterson calls out and Jekylls face has a look of ‘ abject terror and despair’
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Chapter 8 summary
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- Hyde is locked in Jekylls lab
- Poole tells Utterson he has been calling out for a chemical to be brought but has rejected it each time as its not PURE
- Utterson and Poole break down door to find a twitching body
- there is a will that leaves everything to Utterson and a package contains Jekylls confession and a letter
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Chapter 9 summary
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- lanyons letter tells of how he received a letter from jekyll asking him to collect chemicals a vial and a notebook and give it to a man who would call at midnight
- a grotesque man arrived drank the potion and transforms into jekyll causing lanyon to become ill from shock
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Chapter 10 summary
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- jekyll tells story of how he turned into Hyde
- how it began as a scientific experiment into the duality of human nature and an attempt to destroy his ‘ darker self’
- he became addicted lost control and Hyde destroyed him
