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SUMMARY
CH
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utterson
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Enfield
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 It was in the early hours of the morning and Mr Enfield saw a little girl be trampled by a " small and
deformed " man who did not care for his actions, seemingly
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Hyde who pays off the bill
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Hyde pays off the bill y going into his house and coming out with a cheque in the name of a well
respected figure, Mr
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The cheque is for almost 100 pounds
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Hyde but none the less the cheque was
genuine
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Hyde
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 Mr utterson goes home but instead of following his normal routine, he goes to his safe and takes out a
set of documents
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Jekyll is to die or disappear in any way, his entire estate is to be passed
over to Mr
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•Mr
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Jekyll
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Lanyon
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Jekyll, Dr
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Utterson were once good friends
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Lanyon and Dr
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•Mr
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Lanyon has heard of Mr
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The answer is no
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Utterson can’t sleep
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Hyde and speculates about the
evil man’s hold over Dr
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•Mr
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Hyde
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Utterson is totally repulsed by Mr
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•Mr
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Jekyll’s house and asks to see his friend
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Jekyll is not home
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Utterson gossips with the butler about Mr
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•Mr
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CH
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Jekyll gives a dinner party for five or six old men
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Utterson is the guest who deliberately stays later than everyone else
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Hyde and the strange will
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Jekyll begs Mr
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Hyde
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It’s all very mysterious
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Almost a year later, everyone in London is shocked by a terrible crime
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Her testimony ran as follows:
•She was sitting in her window and saw a sweet and gentle and kind old gentleman asking a young man for
directions
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Hyde
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Hyde beat the old gentleman to death
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•Hours later, she finally called the police
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Utterson
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Utterson (who seems to be everybody’s lawyer) accompanies a police officer to the crime scene
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Jekyll some years before
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Utterson offers to take the police officers to Dr
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Hyde
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Mr
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Jekyll, who looks extremely sick
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Utterson asks if Dr
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Hyde, and Dr
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Hyde again
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Jekyll gives Mr
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Hyde
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Utterson shares it with his head clerk, Mr
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•A messenger happens to deliver an invitation written by Dr
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•Mr
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•Mr
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Jekyll forged the letter from Mr
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CH
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Hyde is nowhere to be found
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Jekyll becomes well and happy, throwing dinner parties and engaging in charitable works
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Utterson dines with Dr
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Lanyon on the 8th of the month and all is well, but on the 12th,
14th, and 15th he is denied admittance to the doctor’s house, on the grounds that Dr
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•Mr
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Lanyon, who looks near death
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Jekyll and Mr
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•Mr
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Jekyll is over
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Utterson writes to Dr
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•A week later, Mr
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•In the spirit of the novel and its mysterious documents, Mr
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Utterson with an envelope before
he died
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Utterson finds… yet another envelope
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Jekyll
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Utterson is totally tempted to open up this mysterious envelope, but he resists
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Utterson longs for the company of his old friend, Dr
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Jekyll has shut himself up in his laboratory
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Utterson finally begins to suspect that Dr
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CH
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Utterson, on his weekly walk with Mr
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(That
would be the Black Mail Door—remember?)
•It turns out that the door is a back way to Dr
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•The two friends step into the courtyard with all the windows, and chance to see Dr
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•They chat briefly before Dr
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Utterson and
Mr
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CH
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Jekyll’s manservant, named Poole, shows up at Mr
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•He convinces Mr
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Jekyll’s house
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•Poole announces Mr
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Dr
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Same old song and dance
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Jekyll
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Utterson chat about the events of the past week
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Jekyll, or whoever is inhabiting the room in
the laboratory, has been issuing chemical orders via slips of paper
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•Poole is convinced that the man inside the room is really Mr
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•Using an axe and a kitchen poker, Poole and Mr
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•Inside the room, everything is very neat and clean and in perfect order
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It’s Mr
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He has committed suicide
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Jekyll
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Utterson finds a will naming him as the heir to Dr
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•Mr
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The first
instructs him to read Dr
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Jekyll
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Dr
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Jekyll asking him, in the name of their long and esteemed friendship, to
perform a complicated favor
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Jekyll’s laboratory and giving some potions to a messenger
who will arrive at Dr
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•Dr
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•Mr
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He’s wearing clothes that are much too big for him
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Henry Jekyll
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Lanyon
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Dr
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•In his research, he discovers how to split these two natures into two men
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•This wickedness is accompanied by a transformation into Mr
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•He takes the potion and transforms back into Dr
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•He therefore does not succeed in creating someone wholly good and someone wholly evil, but rather himself
and a wholly evil version of himself
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You need stomping
grounds for the evil version of yourself
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•His conscience doesn't trouble him, because as Dr
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When he knocks over the child as Mr
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Jekyll’s bank account to not get killed by the
angry mob
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Hyde’s name
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Jekyll wakes up one morning as Mr
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•This is disconcerting, to say the least, and Dr
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•For the next two months, he lives a respectable life as Dr
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•But he longs to become Mr
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So one evening, he takes the transformative potion
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•Horrified, he breaks the key to his laboratory and potions, and resumes a sober life as Dr
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•But the secret urges remain and one day, sitting in the park, his thoughts grow evil and he transforms into Mr
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•Away from his potions, and wearing the face of a wanted murderer, Dr
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Lanyon with
specific instructions
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Hyde transforms back into Dr
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Lanyon’s friendship is lost forever
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One day later, Dr
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Hyde
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Jekyll
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•Dr
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Hyde grows more powerful and more insistent
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Panicking, he sends his servants all around London looking for a specific kind of
salt
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Jekyll that there must have been some unknown impurity in the first
sample that lent the potion its efficacy
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Jekyll has most certainly died, and he can only speculate on what will happen
to Mr
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He says he is bringing "the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end," but we never really know
if Jekyll killed himself (and Hyde) before Hyde took over, or whether Hyde, for some unknown reason, killed
himself
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evil
Good vs
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More specifically, Dr
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Hyde is easily viewed
as an allegory about the good and evil that exist in all men, and about our struggle with these two sides of the
human personality
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The question
is which is superior
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However, Hyde does end up dead at the end of the story, perhaps suggesting a weakness or failure of evil
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questions:
How and where does the battle between good and evil play out in this book? Most importantly, who wins?
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Jekyll and Mr
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Dr
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But what he got was normal Dr
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Hyde
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On the good vs
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Utterson fall?
Repression
Repression is indisputably a cause of the troubles in Dr
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Hyde
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Everything is sober and dignified, and you’re really not supposed to be happy
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The more Dr
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Hyde, and the stronger Mr
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This is clearly demonstrated after Dr
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Hyde; Dr
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Questions:
Does Mr
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Jekyll/Mr
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But on the other hand… he doesn’t seem unhappy with his staid
way of living
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If Dr
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To what extent is Dr
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Jekyll, or is this a problem for other people, too?
Friendship
Friendship in Dr
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Hyde serves to drive the plot forward
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Utterson
is compelled to uncover the mystery of the evil man because of his friendship with Dr
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In trying to
unravel the secret, his many friendships deliver crucial pieces of information
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As for the friendship between Dr
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Jekyll, it’s certainly not as
unconditional as the loyalty Mr
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Jekyll
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We see that friendships can be ruined by differences of opinion
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How strong are these friendships, really? Dr
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Jekyll quarrel over science, and Mr
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Jekyll to be capable of evil
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Keeping in mind that all the men in this novel seem to be confirmed bachelors, what role does friendship play
in their lives?

Appearances

Appearances figure in the novel both figuratively and literally
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Jekyll definitely wants to keep up a façade of
respectability, even though he has a lot of unsavory tendencies
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Dr
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Hyde spends most of his time in the "dingy windowless structure" of the doctor’s laboratory
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Hyde
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Why is Dr
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Where in the novel do events seem to point in a particular direction when the opposite is in fact true?
Science
In Dr
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Hyde, science becomes a cover and justification for supernatural activities
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Jekyll
ostensibly derives his potion in some sort of scientific manner, as opposed to finding a magical amulet or
something that releases evil as you might find in other stories
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Jekyll’s brand of science, however, veers
towards the "transcendental" (indeed, supernatural), while Dr
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This disagreement causes an irreparable rift in their relationship, especially after Dr
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Jekyll’s transformation with his own eyes
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Jekyll a good scientist?
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Hyde were simply Dr
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Why did Dr
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Hyde without the aid of a potion? Why couldn’t he transform
in the reverse direction?
4
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Jekyll and Mr
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Why do you
think the novel is constructed this way?
Curiosity
In Dr
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Hyde, curiosity drives the characters to seek knowledge
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Curiosity lacks any negative connotations; instead, characters who do not actively
seek to unravel the Jekyll and Hyde mystery may be viewed as passive or weak
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Utterson
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What is the effect of having Mr
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When Mr
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One could say that curiosity killed Dr
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Is it possible that Mr
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Jekyll and Mr
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Utterson doesn’t
know the relationship between Dr
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Hyde, and he wants to find out
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Hyde’s supposedly crazy debauchery, Stevenson allows our imaginations to run to wild and eerie places
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Hyde’s pleasures, aside from the two crimes we see through others’ eyes, is that they
run absolutely counter to Victorian morality… which isn’t much to go on
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These were all considered bad news in Victorian
times
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Why did Stevenson choose to write from multiple points of view?
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Hyde
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Jekyll and Mr
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The violence in the novel centers on Mr
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Questions:
What does reading Dr
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Hyde’s two crimes add to what we already know?
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Hyde commit the crimes he does? Is pleasure the sole reason?
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Hyde’s crimes all seem to be committed on the spur of the moment
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Jekyll and Mr
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As part of their intellectual lives, the men in the novel discuss
various religious works
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Hyde’s wickedness, for example, is his defacing Dr
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Mr
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Question:
In Chapter 7, Mr
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Enfield converse briefly with Dr
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Jekyll essentially freaks out and shuts the window
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Mr
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Enfield
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Mr
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" Cain was a guy who killed his brother in the Bible
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Utterson? About the novel as a whole?
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