Chapter 10

Cards (4)

  • Chapter 10 - Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case
    • This is the letter that Jekyll left for Utterson in the laboratory (chapter 8).
    • He speaks about the duality of man, and his fascination with scientific discovery and how this morphed into a dark curiosity.
    • He first used the potion to explore this curiosity, then he began to turn into Hyde automatically without wanting to
    • It explores the idea of repression, and how Jekyll felt liberated by Hyde as he no longer had to repress his dual and immoral desires - he could explore them without consequence.
    • He speaks of how his sides of Jekyll and Hyde were inseparable and how they came from the same "womb of consciousness"
  • Short summary