Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Chapter 1 Summary

I think that Dr. Jekyll might be threatened. Hyde, who knows Enfield, would have known that he would come looking for Dr. Jekyll when he couldn’t reach him. This might explain Dr. Jekyll’s bad condition when Enfield came to visit. Hyde might have wanted Enfield to think that Dr. Jekyll was not with him, so that he could use him more freely. What story does Enfield tell when he and Utterson pass the door?

Jekyll was able to change from his personality and behavior. Mr. Utterson thought of Dr. Jekyll as a respected “intelligent, reputable” scientist and friend. He and their other friends enjoyed going to his dinner parties and spending time with him. Mr. Utterson asked about his will and Mr. Hyde even though he didn’t want to answer Dr. Jekyll was polite and calm when he answered him. Dr. Jekyll never hurt or killed anyone. As Mr. Hyde he “snarls and is rude” to Mr. Utterson and Mr. Lanyon when they speak to each other. He tramples a little girl, kills Sirs Danvers Carew and bites a taxi cab driver in the neck. All of Dr. Jekyll’s servants were scared of

Jekyll talks about the years before the creation of the potion that transforms him into Hyde. He summarises his finding of the dual nature, human beings are half good and half evil. Jekyll’s goal in his experiments is to separate two opposite elements, creating a person with only good characteristics and a being of only evil. He does this because he wants to free his good side from dark urges. He fails this experiment, in fact he only manages to create a whole evil person ‘Mr Hyde’. In the letter, Jekyll says ‘I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man . . . if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.’ The events of the novel inform the reader that the dark side (Hyde) is much stronger than the rest of Jekyll, this is why Hyde is able to take over Jekyll. This letter is really important for the reader so that the whole novel is understood. A lot of horror is created and it is all quiet in the reader's mind. The reader feels horrified by the way in which Jekyll seems to love and care for Hyde. Jekyll’s words make the reader angry that a man who was so good could enjoy becoming so

Utterson, Lanyon, Enfield, Jekyll... one of these does not belong. Clearly, within the context of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Jekyll struggles to fit himself into the strict Victorian society. In the events leading to his demise, he longs to separate his firm, polished face from his true inner self; from here, Stevenson paints this juxtaposition with the use of several point-of-view techniques. When Utterson, the protagonist, “[stands] a while when Mr. Hyde had left him... putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity” (Stevenson 19), he clearly becomes the literal center of attention for the story’s opinions and perspectives. Rather than giving an omniscient style to the novel, Stevenson provides an external viewpoint in order to engage his audience. The use of point-of-view techniques in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reinforces the audience’s reaction to the story’s moral dilemma.

An earlier party to the knowledge that Jekyll and Hyde are one, he has already lost his life to that secret. A man who believes in rationalism and moral rectitude, Lanyan simply cannot adapt to the truths uncovered in the revelation of Hyde: improbability and "uttcr moral turpitude" (SC, 80). He sinks slowly into death, his body following the lead of his "sickened" soul. His too is a kind of suicide, a death permitted, if not willed. Lanyan simply cannot accommodate himself to the horror of Jekyll unveiled.

Lanyon’s description of Hyde is that he is something abnormal. Everyone gets a sense of unease upon seeing him. He seems so unnatural and like the creature in Frankenstein, he cannot fit into the society. By this creation of a counterpart, the unacceptable Hyde, he allows him be a part of the society. Hyde cannot be accepted as a human being, so Jekyll betrays his community. The consequences are devastating. Jekyll becomes isolated with his counterpart and he is unable to rid himself of Hyde. Much like Victor Frankenstein, Jekyll pays with his

     Jekyll is tempted to do bad things and he uses Hyde to overcome his temptations. Jekyll gets his satisfaction of doing bad deeds by becoming Hyde. Jekyll says “If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way” (Page 105). He states that he wants to do bad things but knowing he cant and still live the life he has, he uses Hyde as an escape from his temptations. Once Jekyll is able to control his temptations but still do bad as Mr. Hyde he says “I felt younger, lighter, happier in the body” (Page 106) Mr. Hyde is Jekyll’s way of escaping his sophisticated lifestyle and entering a totally separate way of life. Jekyll then didn’t feel any guilt for Hyde’s actions.

Jekyll said that when he frequently shifted between the two identities, he would involuntarily transform into Hyde in the middle of the night, frightened that he would be condemned to live as his other personality for the rest of his life. People sometimes dig deep within themselves and unleash their inner Hydes. As for Jekyll, he did this to take advantage of his repressed passions. While as Hyde, he signed up for a bank account under this name and even furnished his own home. It gave him a sense of purpose as an older man when he projected his true feelings in a younger, more successful

He explains to Utterson that he has had a shock and that he enjoyed life, but Jekyll is sick too. However, when Utterson insisted on him seeing Jekyll he refused saying, “I shall see no more of Dr. Jekyll. I am quite done with that person. I beg that you will spare me the allusion to whom I regard as dead” (1694). A week afterward, Dr. Lanyon died.

Therefore, stated above Jekyll left all of the memorandum, not Hyde (besides Dr.Lanyon). In other words, Dr.Lanyon is the only one who didn’t assume Jekyll was humane. The reader can tell Utterson sees through Hyde, even after Jekyll speaks immensely of him, but Utterson’s perspective cannot be credible. This is because Utterson did not suspect anything at all malevolent from Jekyll. Harboring suspicion that Henry and Edward were two contradistinctive people, Utterson underestimated Jekyll’s affiliation with science.

Hyde and was repulsed but in shock.When Utterson visits Dr. Lanyon again at his sickbed, he brings up Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Lanyon is immediately repulsed and cannot stand to talk about him. Stevenson shows this to his readers this by writing, “I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll… I am quite done with that person, and I beg that you will spare me only allusion to whom I regard as dead”(Stevenson 23). Lanyon did not want to hear about Jekyll anymore because it was Jekyll who had caused him to go into shock when he saw Jekyll himself, turn into the infamous Mr. Hyde. Seeing this made Lanyon sick and he couldn’t bear it. This shows that when a certain evilness of when a person’s human nature comes into full light, people don’t want to see it, or they are not prepared. It is truly a gruesome sight and it is also part of that seer’s human nature to be repelled by that sight. It is simply not naturally part of a person’s human nature to have their dark side of their demeanor to be fully brought out of the darkness.

When Utterson first meets Hyde, he says that he found him via description provided by Dr. Jekyll. At this remark, Hyde changes moods in an instant, as the

Throughout the novel, it is important to examine what Utterson suspects of Jekyll. While Jekyll clearly is acting strange, Mr. Utterson is blind to the fact that this is truly Dr. Jekyll¹s problem and instead blames Mr. Hyde for blackmail. The question remains, blackmail for what?

Now this story does not follow Dr. Jekyll through his journey of creating his evil alter ego. Moreover he is not even the first initial character that we are introduced to in the novella; we are first introduced to a man named Mr. Utterson. He is actually the lawyer of Dr. Jekyll and he takes an interest in his newfound protégé who is referred to as Mr. Hyde. His negative feelings towards Mr. Hyde, beget a personal investigation into his life and his connection to Dr. Jekyll. Sadly he does not realize the truth behind the mystery of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde till the end of the novella, where he finally discovers the secret from reading Dr. Jekyll’s last words written in a letter addressed to him after Dr. Jekyll’s untimely death.

Even though he knew it could lead to his arrest, Hyde brutally murdered a highly regarded man. He could not look past the evil temptation, and so it overtook his better judgment. Jekyll acknowledges these horrible acts committed by Hyde, but they do not seem to impact him. Because Jekyll has not performed the actions, he does not feel guilty; however, he eventually realizes Hyde’s true malevolence. By this time, it is already too late. Hyde already has too much control over Jekyll, and he understands he must give up: “And indeed the doom that is closing on us both, has already changed and crushed him. Half an hour from now, […] I shall again and forever reindue that hated personality […] I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to and end” (Stevenson 70). He realizes that Hyde has become dominant, and that his inner evil cannot be suppressed. Accepting this as fact finally ends Jekyll’s struggle with suppression and