Jekyll & Hyde

• The story opens with

  Utterson and Enfield on a walk one Sunday night
• Enfield


  • Sees a door and relates when he saw a strange man named Hyde trample a little girl
  • Grabbed the man and with a few others blackmailed him
  • The man took them to the door where he went inside and retrieved the blackmail money
• Utterson


  As a lawyer has the will to Dr. Jekyll who is oddly left everything to Mr. Hyde
• Utterson


  • Visits Jekyll's friend and science partner Dr. Lanyon who reveals that he and Jekyll are no longer talking due to a scientific disagreement
  • Sets out to find Hyde, waits by the door and eventually introduces himself
  • Hyde is repulsive and gives Utterson a nasty and hostile greeting
• Utterson asks Jekyll about Hyde

  1. Jekyll tells Utterson not to bring him up anymore

  2. Makes Utterson promise to give Hyde his rights if Jekyll disappears
• One year later


  • Hyde beats a respected gentleman to death
  • Police find a letter on the body addressed to Utterson and contact him
• Utterson visits Jekyll


  1. Jekyll assures Utterson he is not hiding Hyde

  2. Jekyll hands Utterson a letter from Hyde claiming he has fled
• Utterson asks his friend who is a clerk an expert in handwriting to compare the letter to one of Jekyll's

  Reveals Jekyll forged the letter
• Two months pass


  • Jekyll seems to have returned to normal but then suddenly he shuts Utterson out
• Utterson visits Lanyon again

  • Lanyon is deathly ill as if from a great shock but won't say what happened
• Lanyon dies


  Utterson and Enfield go for a walk and speak with Jekyll through his window, suddenly Jekyll looks frightened and slams the window shut
• Poole visits Utterson


  1. Says something is wrong with his master Jekyll

  2. They go back to Jekyll's house and Utterson and Poole break down his door
• They find


  • Mr. Hyde dying after drinking poison
• Envelope addressed to Utterson


  Contains 3 enclosures:

  1. Revised will leaving everything to Utterson

  2. Note to read Lanyon's letter

  3. Jekyll's confession
• Jekyll's explanation reveals he discovered a way to split the two sides of humans - good and evil - using a potion, thus creating Mr. Hyde. Eventually he couldn't control Hyde anymore and that's why he kills both of them through suicide.