Summary

Cards (40)

  • Who walks past the neglected building with Utterson?
    Enfield
  • What crime does Enfield recall when passing the building?
    A man named Hyde trampled a young girl
  • What action did Enfield take regarding Hyde after the incident?
    He pressured Hyde to pay for his crime
  • What did Hyde bring out of the building after the incident?
    A cheque signed by Dr Henry Jekyll
  • Why is Utterson concerned about Jekyll's will?
    It leaves everything to Hyde
  • What does Utterson discover about Lanyon's relationship with Jekyll?
    They have fallen out
  • How does Utterson feel about Hyde when they meet?
    He really dislikes him
  • What conclusion does Utterson reach about Hyde's relationship with Jekyll?
    Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll
  • Where does Utterson attend a dinner party?
    At Jekyll's home
  • What does Utterson question Jekyll about during the dinner party?
    About Hyde
  • How does Jekyll respond to Utterson's questions about Hyde?
    He asks him to let the matter drop
  • What promise does Jekyll make Utterson carry out?
    To follow the instructions in his will
  • Chapter 4 to 5
    • A year later, a maid witnesses the violent murder of Sir Danvers Carew by Hyde. Utterson takes the police to Hyde's home in Soho where they find the murder weapon. Hyde is nowhere to be found.
    • Utterson goes to see Jekyll, who looks very ill.
    Jekyll claims that he'll never see Hyde again and shows Utterson a letter from Hyde which backs this up.
    • However, Utterson is concerned when Poole tells him that no letters had been delivered to the house that morning.
    • Later, Utterson shows Guest the letter, who points out the similarity between the handwriting of Jekyll and Hyde.
  • Who becomes more like his old self in the story?
    Jekyll
  • What does Jekyll do a few months later?
    He hides himself away from friends
  • Who visits Lanyon when he is very ill?
    Utterson
  • What does Lanyon refuse to talk about?
    Jekyll
  • What does Lanyon say he has experienced?
    A terrible shock
  • What does Jekyll write to Utterson about?
    Not seeing his friends anymore
  • What happens to Lanyon?
    He dies
  • What does Lanyon leave for Utterson?
    A letter to be read after Jekyll's death
  • What do Utterson and Jekyll do together?
    They go for a walk
  • What does Utterson notice about Jekyll's behavior?
    He quickly shuts the window
  • Who comes to Utterson's house worried about Jekyll?
    Poole
  • What do Poole and Utterson do at Jekyll's laboratory?
    They shout to Jekyll
  • What does the voice responding from the laboratory sound like?
    Hyde
  • What do Poole and Utterson discover when they break in?
    Hyde dead on the floor
  • How did Hyde die?
    He poisoned himself
  • What is found on the desk in Jekyll's laboratory?
    A letter addressed to Utterson
  • What does the letter to Utterson instruct him to do?
    Read Lanyon's letter and Jekyll's confession
  • What did Lanyon's letter explain about Hyde?
    Hyde drank the potion and transformed into Jekyll
  • What was the impact of the revelation that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person on Lanyon?
    It caused Lanyon's death
  • What did Jekyll's confession reveal about his transformation into Hyde?
    He transformed without meaning to in the park
  • Why did Jekyll write to Lanyon?
    To ask for help retrieving potion ingredients
  • What does Jekyll say about his family background?
    He came from a respectable family
  • What was Jekyll ashamed of?
    His darker desires
  • What did Jekyll create to transform between his two identities?
    A drug
  • What were the two identities that Jekyll transformed between?
    Jekyll and Hyde
  • What happened to Jekyll over time regarding his transformations?
    He started to turn into Hyde without taking the drug
  • What was the consequence of Jekyll running out of drugs?
    He would become Hyde permanently