Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Flashcards
Briefly summarise chapter 1
-Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield are introduced during their Sunday morning walk
-Enfield is promted by a battered door to tell Utterson a story ->
Late at night he saw a short man trample over a young girl. She was not badly hurt but he agreed to pay 100 pounds.The man took them to the battered door, went in and came out with gold and a cheque signed by a respectable citizen, Enfield suspects the man is blackmailing the person. Utterson asks about the man, Enfield says there was something very disturbing about him, His name is Hyde
Briefly summarise chapter 2
- Utterson reads Jekylls will, if states Hyde is to inherit everything of Jekylls
- Utterson visits Dr Lanyon. Lanyon has not heard of Hyde and says he and Jekyll fell out 10 years ago when Jekyll started having unscientific ideas
- Utterson decides to see Hyde himself, waiting at the DOOR he finds him as repellent as Enfield said
- Utterson goes to Jekyll and is told by Poole (Jekylls servant) they have orders to obey Hyde and he has a key
- Utterson thinks Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll
Briefly summarise chapter 3
- Utterson goes to Jekylls for dinner and asks about the will
- Jekyll tries to change the subject to his dislike of Lanyon
- Utterson tell Jekyll he has spoken to Hyde and offers to help him with the trouble
- Jekyll refuses to talk saying Utterson does not understand, repeats Utterson must look after Hyde when he dies, Utterson agrees
Briefly summarise chapter 4
- Murder of Sir Danvers Carew, a maid sees, half a cane and a letter for Utterson found by the body
- Utterson visits Hydes rooms with police officer, Inspector Newcomen
- They search Hydes rooms, find fine wines and pictures, but recently ransacked, burned papers, the other part of the cane and a burned chequebook
- Newcomen finds Hyde has several thousand pounds, although cant find anything about him
Briefly summarise chapter 5
- Utterson finds Jekyll ill in his ‘cabinet’
- Jekyll claims he heard people shouting about the murder, implying this is how he knows
- Jekyll tells Utterson he is sure Hyde will disappear
- Jekyl shows Utterson a letter signed ‘Edward Hyde’, thanking Jekyll and says he can escape, Utterson is relieved
- Utterson shows his head clerk Mr Guest the letter who analyses the handwriting and finds it is similar to Jekyll’s
- Utterson decided Jekyll forged the letter
Briefly summarise chapter 6
- Hyde disappears, Jekyll returns to his old self
- Jekyyl suddenly refuses to see Utterson again, Utterson finds Lanyon physically changed, clearly disturbed
- Lanyon refuses to talk about Jekyll, regarding him as ‘dead’, Utterson writes to Jekyll, his reply reinforces the two will never see each other again
- Lanyon dies, Utterson receives a package addressed by Lanyon containing a letter which states not to be opened until the death OR disappearance of Jekyll, this makes Utterson curious but he puts it in his safe
- Utterson tries to see Jekyll several times but is turned around, Poole says Jekyll seems preoccupied and unhappy
Briefly summarise chapter 7
- On a walk, Utterson tells Enfield he say Hyde and felt the same repulsion
- Enfiles days he found the door is the back entrance to Jekyll’s laboratory
- Jekyll refuses to walk with them, and his room is not fit for him to visit, so the agree to stand and talk for a moment, a look of horror strikes Jekylss face and he draws the curtains
- Appalled at what they have seen on Jekyll’s face, Utterson and Enfield walk away
Briefly summarise chapter 8
- Poole and Utterson visit Jekyll as Poole feals something is wrong, a voice refuses
- Poole fears Jekyll was murdered 8 days ago when he heard a cry, he believes the murderer is Hyde
- Utterson and Poole try to break inusing and poker and an axe, they hear footsteps pacing the cabinet
- Hyde begs them not to break in
- They find the body of Hyde in clothes way too big twitching on the floor, cannot find Jekyll’s corpse
- They find an envelope addressed to Utterson, containing a new will in Utterson’s favour; a note telling Utterson to read Lanyon’s letter; and a long letter from Jekyll
Briefly summarise chapter 9
- whole chapter is in the form of a letter from Lanyon, including a letter from Jekyll to Lanyon. Jekyll asks Lanyon to go to Jekyll’s and collect a specific drawer and take it to his house, and wait for a visitor
- The letter makes clear Jekyll’s life depends on Lanyon, the drawer contains a collection of chemicals and a book with dates and notes
- At midnight, Hyde comes to Lanyon’s house, Lanyon is instantly repelled
- Hyde is impatient for the drawer, he mixes a potion form chemicals in the drawer
- Hyde offers Lanyon to stand outside or watch as he takes it. Lanyon chooses to watch
- Lanyon is horrified to watch Hyde transform into Jekyll
Briefly summarise chapter 10 , the final
- Jekyll gives his full account. He was so concerned to with being well regarded that he hid his pleasures, in 2
- Jekyll began to think of people having a good and evil (Id & Superego), so he separated the two with a potion, taking the potion he turned into Hyde, evil
- He began to take it regularly, Hyde had no limits, One day he woke up as Hyde not having using the potion, he decided to stop using it
- The temptation was two strong, he too it again a and Hyde killed Carew, Jekyll realised he should never take it again
- After turning into Hyde unexpectedly, he arranged for Lanyon to collect his chemicals. He had to stay in his laboratory
- He ran out of the salt he needed and realised he would be Hyde forever, he wrote his final statement after taking the final dose, uncertain on what was to be.
Chapter 1 quotes
‘the man trampled calmly over the girls body… like some damned juggernaut’
‘he gives a strong feeling of deformity’
Chapter 2 quotes
‘Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. he began to wrong, wrong in mind’
‘Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave a strong impression of deformity’
Chapter 3 quotes
‘Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness around his eyes’
Chapter 4 quotes
‘ape-like fury’
‘all of a sudden he broke out with a great flame of anger’
Chapter 5 quotes
‘Dr Jekyll looking deadly sick… held out a cold hand’
