Jekyll & Hyde

• Jekyll and Hyde is a gothic novella set in Victorian London. London was the heart of the British empire so it became a big source of employment, wealth and power. however it was full of poverty, disease and depravity due to the rising population
• Chapter 1 : the story of the door
• CHAPTER 1 : Utterson and Mr Enfield walk through London and see a door.mr Enfield then tells Utterson about Hyde trampling over a child's body. Hyde has to pay a cheque but is in another name however the cheque clears without problem
• Chapter 2 : search for Mr Hyde
• CHAPTER 2 : Utterson reads his friends Dr Jekyll will and discovers everything is left to Hyde. Utterson visits Dr Lanyon and they talk of Mr Hyde but Lanyon has not heard of him. Utterson goes to the door and waits for Hyde where they meet. Utterson scared goes to Jekyll's house but Poole says he has gone out
• Chapter 3 : Dr Jekyll was quite at ease
• CHAPTER 3 : Jekyll host a dinner with respected gentlemen. when the others have gone Utterson asks Jekyll about Hyde but Jekyll is reluctant . Jekyll asks Utterson to honour the terms of the will
• Chapter 4 : the Carew murder case
• CHAPTER 4 : the story shift forward a year. a young maid at midnight sees a beautiful gentlemen however Hyde appears and beat the man with a cane. Carew is found with a golden watch and a envelope addressed to Mr Utterson . Utterson accompanies the police to Hyde's house where they find the other half of the cane and a cheque book that contains hundreds of pounds
• Chapter 5 : Incident of the letter
• CHAPTER 5 : Utterson visits Jekyll and asks if he heard about Carew. however Jekyll says he wants nothing to do with Hyde. Jekyll gives Utterson an envelope which says that Hyde has repaid Jekyll for his help and escaped. Jekyll burnt the envelope and Utterson asks Poole who delivered it but Poole says no letter has been delivered . Utterson and Mr guest compare the writing of two letters and Utterson concludes Jekyll forged the letter from Hyde
• Chapter 6 : The incident of doctor Lanyon
• CHAPTER 6 : with Hyde gone Jekyll seems mor like himself and throws a dinner for his friends. Utterson goes to visit Jekyll but is turned away several times.mr Utterson goes to visit Dr Lanyon nut he is unwell and a few weeks later dies. after the funeral Utterson opens a letter which should only be opened on the death or disappearance of henry Jekyll but is stopped.
• Chapter 7 : The incident of the window
• CHAPTER 7 : Utterson and Enfield are out for a walk and visit the door. Enfield says this is a back passage to Jekyll's house. Utterson spots Jekyll in the window and is invited to walk but declines. a strange face come over Jekyll and collapse at the window Utterson and Enfield leave quickly deciding not to talk about this again
• Chapter 8 : The last night
• CHAPTER 8 : one evening Jekyll's servant come to Utterson and asks for help at Jekyll's house. they go to the laboratory but the door is locked and there is strange voices coming from the door which they believe is Hyde. they break down the door and find a body twitching inside. the body is smaller than Jekyll. on the table is Jekyll's confession Utterson takes it and tells Poole he will return at midnight once he has read the document
• Chapter 9 : Dr Lanyon's narrative
• CHAPTER 9 : this chapter is told from Dr Lanyon's perspective in the form of a letter. Lanyon receives a letter from Jekyll asking him to collect a drawer from the laboratory and gives it to a man at midnight. when the man appears he is small wearing clothes too large for him. the man takes the drawer and drinks the potion and before his eyes Hyde transforms into Jekyll and Lanyon become seriously ill
• Chapter 10 : henry Jekyll's full statement of the case
• CHAPTER 10 : this chapter is tod from Dr Jekyll's perspective . he reveals how and why he turned into Hyde. it began as scientific curiosity and his attempt to destroy his darker self. however he became addicted to the character of Hyde who took over and destroyed him
• 'dammed juggernaut' - description of Hyde. Dammed means eternal suffering in hell linking to the devil and juggernaut means unstoppable force. Therefore Stevenson wants the reader to know the threat and danger Hyde poses to society
• 'ape like fury' - description of Hyde. it links to how Hyde behaves and acts. Charles Darwin wrote the origin of the species in 1859 and wrote about how humans evolved from apes. this scared Victorian Britain as they always believed the religious ways and that we descended from Adam and eve. now people were scared that if we evolved from apes we could regress back into them. meaning when Hyde starts acting with regressive behaviour people became terrified
• the name 'HYDE' links to hiding from someone or something. so with the rising population of London there became an anonymity about the city. you didn't know the people and they didn't know you, so people felt less bound by social etiquette. fear of an encounter with an anonymous stranger was common. Stevenson exemplifies this with Hyde being a mysterious character who blend in with the city
• 'the door which was equipped without a knocker' shows Hyde is a introvert and is clearly unwelcoming and inviting and is obviously hiding something. secretive evil process in place against god meaning Hyde is meddling with the great chain of being
• ' stumping along' links to the lack of Hyde social class and lack of appearance trying to blend in with the streets of london
• 'trampled calmly over the child's body' - wicked behaviour suggest how horrid he is. callas no empathy. juxtaposition. its almost natural for Hyde to behave in this way
• 'low grow of London' links to the poverty of the city. also a metaphor describing the city as being alive. links to social classes how the poor are considered like animals yet the rich have the power to mess with science
• 'he had been drinking heavily' - alcohol is linked to madness and insanity. hyde is drunk on power and control. he wants to escape from himself and become another person. he becomes more animalistic and savage. he feels free and liberated. he enjoys hurting others and causing chaos. he doesnt care about anyone else except himself.
• 'a mania for cleanliness' - hydes obsession with cleanliness suggests his desire to be pure and innocent but can never achieve it because hes not human. link to puritanism where they believe that only through hard work and self denial will one reach heaven. hyde cant do this because he has no soul
• 'something troglodytic' links to a primitive cave man regressive behaviour. evolution vs de evolution
• DUALITY - Stevenson forces the reader to consider the possibility that theirs a savage within all people, even those who seem civilised. Hyde is twice describe as 'ape like' and many upper class Victorians believed that people who committed crimes where less evolved. this is reflected in the physical description of Hyde who is described as 'troglodytic' and 'pale and dwarfish'
• duality quotes 'man is not truly one but truly two' 'if each I told myself could be housed in separate idented life would be relived of all that was unbearable' - Stevenson's authorial intent is to propose that humans are comprised of both good and evil
• REPUTATION AND SECRECY - often characters choose not to speak about unpleasant things so they can pretend that they are not happening. despite Utterson suspicions about Hyde and Jekyll he doesn't push anything and waits until he finds the truth
• SCIENCE - ' unscientific balderdash' senseless talking or writing ; nonsense. relates to not messing around with science
• Stevenson's scientific authorial intent - the moral ambiguity of science
• Stevenson's reputation and secrecy authorial intent is to criticise the hypocrisy of Victorian gentlemen
• Stevenson's violent and evil authorial intent is to satisfy Christian reader by punishing evil at the end