The Crucible Summary Chapter 8

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In chapter seven titled as “Incident at the Window”, Utterson and Enfield were walking down the street when they saw the alley of the door of the first chapter. They went to see the three windows of Jekyll's office. The one in the middle was open, and anyone could see the doctor's face. They stayed to talk when suddenly, Jekyll, became pale, he looked horrified and ran out, closing the window. The two men were paralyzed as Utterson speaks softly, "God forgive us, God forgive us." (Page 44). This chapter may be the shortest one but here, two principal characters witness the truth that Jekyll was living. In chapter eight “The last night”, Poole, Jekyll's steward, goes to see Utterson. He tells him that something was wrong with the doctor and they both go to his house. They tried to talk to him but besides from not letting them in, he has a very strange voice. Poole tells him that the doctor was passing him notes under the door asking for products and complaining that the ones he has brought were not pure. Utterson asks the butler one of those …show more content…

That person turned out to be Hyde. He behaved nervously and impatient. Lanyon handed over the products and Hyde began to mix them. When the mixture was cast he asked the other one a question: "Do you prefer to let me go and not know anything about this or the weight of curiosity does not let you do it?" (Page 70). Lanyon replied that he had not done all that in order not to know the end. Then, Hyde ingested the mixture and after a while of having painful reactions, that person became Henry Jekyll. For the first time in the novel, the readers prove what they have suspicious about. The letter opens a single possibility that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two opposite sides of the same person or Mr. Hyde is the bad side of Dr.

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