Key characters

• Dr Jekyll


  A wealthy respectable doctor and experimental scientist
• Dr Lanyon 


  A conservative, traditional doctor and Jekyll's oldest friend
• Mr Hyde


  A small primitive and violent man. Jekyll's alter ego and evil side
• Utterson


  A calm and rational lawyer and friend of Jekyll
• Enfield


  A friend of Utterson and, with whom he regularly walks.

  "Was coming home from some place at the end of the world at three o'clock of a black winters morning"
• Poole


  Jekyll's servant
• Sir Danvers Carew


  A distinguished gentleman who was beaten to death by Hyde.
• Mr Guest


  Utterson's secretary and handwriting expert