j+h plot Flashcards
What is chapter 1?
Story of the Door
What is chapter 2?
Search for Mr Hyde
What is chapter 3?
Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease
What is chapter 4?
The Carew Murder Case
What is chapter 5?
Incident of the Ltter
What is chapter 6?
Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon
What is chapter 7?
Incident at the Window
What is chapter 8?
The Last Night
What is chapter 9?
Dr Lanyon’s Narrative
What is chapter 10?
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
what happens in the story of the door?
- 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
what happens in the search for mr hyde?
- 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
what happens in dr jekyll was quite at ease?
- 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’
what happens in the carew murder case?
- 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
what happens in the incident of the letter?
- 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
what happens in the remarkable incident of dr lanyon?
- 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
what happens in the incident at the window?
Utterson and Enfield see Jekyll in his lab window but as they are talking, his expression suddenly changes and he shuts himself away again
what happens in the last night?
- 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
what happens in dr lanyon’s narrative?
- 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
what happens in henry jekyll’s full statement of the case?
- 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
