plot summary

• • CHAPTER 1 - THE STORY OF THE DOOR
  • Utterson and Enfield come across a strange out of place door to a neglected building on an expensive street
  • Enfield recalls Hyde trampling a girl and then entering the building to get a cheque of £100
  • the cheque is signed by 'respectable person' that Enfield does'nt disclose (it is Jekyll)
• • CHAPTER 2 - THE SEARCH FOR MR HYDE
  • Utterson finds Jekyll's will
  • the will says that all his possessions will go to Mr Hyde
  • Utterson visits Lanyon who says he has never heard of Hyde
  • Utterson waits for Hyde by the door to talk to him
  • Utterson goes to Jekyll and discovers the door leads to Jekyll's laboratory and Hyde has a key to it
  • Utterson suspects blackmail
• • CHAPTER 3- DR JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
  • Utterson talks to Jekyll
  • Jekyll refuses to reveal details of his relationship with Hyde
• • CHAPTER 4- THE CAREW MURDER CASE
  • Hyde beating Sir Danvers Carew (a member of parliament) with a walking cane
  • Utterson finds Hyde's address in Soho
• • CHAPTER 5- INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
  • Utterson visits Jekyll who looks sick
  • Jekyll says he has ended his relationship with Hyde
  • Jekyll says that Hyde wrote a letter saying he is going away but Utterson discovers no letters have been delivered
  • Mr Guest is a handwriting expert and Utterson now believes Jekyll forged to frame Hyde
• • CHAPTER 6- REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR LANYON
  • Jekyll is less negetive since Hyde's disapearance
  • Jekyll becomes depressed
  • Utterson goes to Lanyon but he is pale and sickly
  • Lanyon thinks he is going to die soon and does'nt want to discuss Jekyll as hints he has something to do with his sickness
  • Utterson writes to Jekyll but gets a reply suggesting he is 'under a dark influence'
  • Lanyon dies and leaves a letter to be opened after 'death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll'
  • Jekyll is living in isolation
• • CHAPTER 7- INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
  • Enfield and Utterson are on a walk
  • they stop to look and talk to Jekyll through the window of the strange house
  • suddenly Jekyll's face turns of 'terror and despair' and he shuts the window
• • CHAPTER 8 - THE LAST NIGHT
  • Poole comes to Utterson concerned about Jekyll
  • Poole says the voice inside the laboratory sounds like Hyde and is asking for chemicals
  • they break the door and find Hyde twitching on the floor with test tube in his hand
  • there is no trace of Jekyll
  • there is a will leaving everything to Utterson and Jekyll's confessions
• • CHAPTER 9- DR LANYON'S NARRATIVE
  • shifts narrative to Lanyon
  • Lanyon recieves a letter from Jekyll to break into a cabinet in the laboratory to get chemicals
  • Lanyon gives chemical to Hyde and sees the transformation into Jekyll
• • CHAPTER 10- HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
  • perspective shift to Jekyll explaining himself
  • Jekyll became scientifically curious and tried to destroy his dark side
  • he needed a potion to transform but now would do it automatically
  • Hyde took over him and destroyed him