Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Summary

A few weeks later Jekyll hosts a dinner-party. Afterwards Utterson stays to discuss the will and the meaning behind leaving such an important lifestyle to Edward Hyde. Jekyll jokes with Utterson but eventually asks him to end the discussion and promise to follow his will exactly. Almost a years later there is an incident involving Sir Danvers Carew and a mysterious man that beat him to death. With Carew, there was a letter addressed to Utterson. He leads the police to the home of Hyde where no one is found. The murder weapon and a burnt checkbook are discovered but in the weeks that follow, there are no signs of Mr. Hyde. On the same day of the murder, Utterson again visits a very ill Dr Jekyll. Jekyll says he has ended the relationship between himself and

Hyde. He also says he had received a letter from Hyde telling him that he has escaped forever. Afraid of incriminating himself he gives the letter to Utterson.

On his way out, Utterson asks Poole what the man delivering the letter looked like, but Poole did not know what letter he was talking about other than the regular mail. Later that evening, Utterson invites a friend, Mr. Guest, for his expertise in calligraphy to compare the letter from Hyde to some other writings of Jekyll’s. Mr. Guest implies that they were written by the same person, only with a slight tilt of the wrist in Hyde’s letter. Utterson is now truly shaken with the thought of Dr. Jekyll forging the letter from Mr. Hyde. With Jekyll’s good nature returning in the following months and no sign of Hyde, Dr. Jekyll throws another dinner-party which is attended by both Utterson and Dr. Lanyon. But as the cycle continues, only a couple of days after, Jekyll becomes secluded. Utterson inquires from Lanyon to see what the problem is but Lanyon is weak and distraught. Irate at the mention of Jekyll’s name he tells Utterson that he will know soon enough. Not much information came from mailing Jekyll as well to what was happening. Jekyll’s reply only saying that he still likes Lanyon but his distantness must continue though the pain he is

suffering.
One evening, Utterson accompanied himself with Poole to figure out what was really happening with Dr. Jekyll. When they both tried to enter the laboratory in search of him an ominous voice told them he can receive no visitors. Poole tells Utterson that the voice they heard was defiantly not his master and that earlier he had seen the man come out to look for something. They believed it was Mr. Edward Hyde. The two men then make a plan to break in through the front and send two servants in through the back. After entering, they see Mr. Hyde dead on the floor as a result of suicide by poison. While evaluating the room, Utterson notices he is wearing one of Jekyll’s much too large suits and a large mirror. On his desk they find an envelope addressed to Utterson and sealed on many places. It contained three items but before Utterson read any of them, he rushed home to be alone in order to process this new information.
The first document in the package was an altered will and testament for Dr. Jekyll. Exactly like the previous one but it stated that all of Dr. Jekyll’s possessions would become Utterson’s, not Hyde’s. The second was a letter from Lanyon explaining his predicament. In it, he wrote about how Jekyll had asked him to run odd errands for him in his time of need. After which, Lanyon returned home and was greeted by a small, ugly, well dressed man. The man had come from Dr. Jekyll and, after being let in, started to brew a chemical that’s reaction would “stagger the unbelief of Satan”. Once consumed, the body of the man began to swell and spasm until a flush, weakened Dr. Jekyll took his place. Lanyon inferred that the man was none other than Mr. Hyde before the transformation, and the emotional turmoil of witnessing such an event was inevitably the cause of death to Dr. Hastie Lanyon. The Third and final piece of parchment in the envelope was a full confession from Dr. Jekyll and was only to be read by Utterson’s free will and curiosity. It started by telling about Jekyll’s early life and large fortune he inherited, but mostly about his fascination with the human’s self or, in his belief, that each person had two personalities. With the inspiration and resources, he finally found a possible solution to reveal the good and bad in a person. During the testing on himself, the feeling and appearance of Hyde felt overwhelmingly brilliant. A younger self that embraced an evil side that was always inside Jekyll. After creating a separate lifestyle for Hyde, he felt joyful. It wasn’t until one night when he had spontaneously transformed, and had no control, that Jekyll knew he had to do something in order to restrict Hyde. Two months later was the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. It was not involuntarily triggered, but a harsher reaction due to the long absence of Hyde. Jekyll had now become addicted because of the intoxicating qualities the potion had supplied him with. This was the last straw for Jekyll as he never again took the potion for transformation until an unpredicted incident in a park far from town. At that moment, Jekyll first called on Lanyon for supplies and used a reversal serum every six hours in order to stay the same. The ingredients were rationed but as they vanished he did not have the right chemicals in order to replace them. Frantically composing his final letter to Utterson before permanently becoming Hyde, Jekyll says he will finally put his life to an end.