j+h plot

Question 1

What is chapter 1?

Answer 1

Story of the Door

Question 2

What is chapter 2?

Answer 2

Search for Mr Hyde

Question 3

What is chapter 3?

Answer 3

Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease

Question 4

What is chapter 4?

Answer 4

The Carew Murder Case

Question 5

What is chapter 5?

Answer 5

Incident of the Ltter

Question 6

What is chapter 6?

Answer 6

Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon

Question 7

What is chapter 7?

Answer 7

Incident at the Window

Question 8

What is chapter 8?

Answer 8

The Last Night

Question 9

What is chapter 9?

Answer 9

Dr Lanyon’s Narrative

Question 10

What is chapter 10?

Answer 10

Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

Question 11

what happens in the story of the door?

Answer 11

• Introduces Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, and his friend Mr. Enfield, whoare walking through London and discuss a mysterious door in London
• Enfield describes Hyde trampling a girl and how Hyde went through the door and produced a cheque signed by someone else to pay off the girl’s family
• Enfield doesn’t say who signed the cheque but Utterson has already worked it out

Question 12

what happens in the search for mr hyde?

Answer 12

• Utterson re-reads Jekyll’s will which says Hyde will inherit everything if Jekyll dies or vanishes so Utterson decides Hyde must be blackmailing Jekyll
• Utterson visits Lanyon and discovers he and Jekyll have fallen out over Jekyll’s approach to science
• Utterson meets Hyde, outside Jekyll’s lab

Question 13

what happens in dr jekyll was quite at ease?

Answer 13

• Utterson goes to a dinner party at Jekyll’s house
• he questions Jekyll about Hyde and the will
• Jekyll won’t explain and asks Utterson to leave the matter alone
• he also asks Utterson to look after Hyde if Jekyll is ever ‘taken away’

Question 14

what happens in the carew murder case?

Answer 14

• Hyde attacks and murders Carew, nearly a year later
• Utterson realises that Carew was murdered using a cane Utterson gave Jekyll, linking Jekyll to the murder
• Utterson and the police go to Hyde’s lodgings but he isn’t there

Question 15

what happens in the incident of the letter?

Answer 15

• after the murder, Utterson visits Jekyll who looks ill and upset and swears that Hyde has gone
• Jekyll gives Utterson a letter from Hyde and asks Utterson to decide whether to give it to the police
• Poole says no letters arrived that day so Utterson concludes Hyde’s note was delivered to the back door or written in the lab cabinet
• Utterson’s clerk, Guest, suggests Hyde’s letter was written by Jekyll as the handwriting is similar
• Utterson warns Guest not to speak of the letter and locks it in his safe

Question 16

what happens in the remarkable incident of dr lanyon?

Answer 16

• Hyde vanishes and Jekyll returns to normal (is sociable and does good deeds) - then he suddenly shuts himself away again
• Utterson visits Lanyon and finds that he is dying - he refuses to talk about Jekyll
• 2 weeks later, Lanyon dies and leaves Utterson a letter; inside is another letter that says it can’t be opened until Jekyll’s death or disappearance
• Utterson is tempted to open it but locks it in his safe

Question 17

what happens in the incident at the window?

Answer 17

Utterson and Enfield see Jekyll in his lab window but as they are talking, his expression suddenly changes and he shuts himself away again

Question 18

what happens in the last night?

Answer 18

• Poole visits Utterson to ask for his help
• they go to Jekyll’s house and Jekyll refuses to let them into his office and his voice has changes
• they break down the door and find Hyde’s body who has taken poison to kill himself; Jekyll has disappeared
• they find a letter Jekyll has written for Utterson

Question 19

what happens in dr lanyon’s narrative?

Answer 19

• Lanyon’s letter to Utterson
• Jekyll asks for Lanyon’s help and Lanyon sees Hyde transform into Jekyll
• Lanyon was horrified; this was the shock that led to his death

Question 20

what happens in henry jekyll’s full statement of the case?

Answer 20

• jekyll’s letter to utterson reveals the truth
• Jekyll describes his scientific findings, the first time he turned into Hyde and how he began to lose control over Hyde