What Is The Relationship Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
This very interesting story begins with a lawyer named Mr Utterson. Mr Utterson helps many bad men with their problems. He is a lawyer of course. He has a respectable social status and has many friends. One of them being Mr Enfield. Mr Enfield and him are very close friends and usually walk together and mingle. They take walks regularly. One day they were walking on a very busy street and spotted a peculiar building. And even though the two don't talk much Enfield told a story about an old man and the building. He said the old man walked out of the building and push over a helpless little girl. Enfield noticed this and pursued the man. He stopped him and an angry crowd convulged on him. He was an ugly

weird old man and they blackmailed the old man saying that they would tell everybody about what happened. The ugly short old man bought the girls family off with 100 dollars. Where did he get the money? Well, he got the money from inside the weird building. But even weirder was that he got the money from a very respectable man. Utterson fought with Enfield to tell him and finally Enfield admitted that the check was made out to Mr Hyde.

Mr Utterson was done with gossip after all he hated gossip.

He went home and relaxed to do his job studying a will. This will in fact was Dr Jekyll's. He looks over it and after everything in the will it says everything should be left to Mr Hyde. Utterson then got suspicious and thought that Hyde was blackmailing Dr Jekyll, why would a respected man like Dr Jekyll give everything he owns to an ugly gloomy man like Hyde? He has no idea. But being the great man he is Jekyll throws a party for his friends. At the party Mr Utterson pulls Jekyll to the side and asks him about the will. Mr Hyde was uneasy and Utterson was starting to unravel a huge

mystery.
Then something confusing happens.

The story skips a while longer and it skips to Hyde talking to a high ranking official of the Parliament and beating him with a club. Luckily a maid saw the act and called the police. Mr Utterson becomes aware of the murder and leads cops to Hydes house. He is not home. But the cops go to a bank that has his name and wait for him to get some money. He never shows up for months. So knowing Jekyll has a close relationship with Hyde He visits him. Jekyll invites him in friendly. They talk for a while and start to drink. After getting a buzz Utterson and Jekyll begin discussing Hyde. Jekyll a little drunk tells Utterson about a letter. The letter from hude said that he can escape the cops. Mr Utterson had enough for one night and told Jekyll he was going to leave. As he was leaving he saw Jekyll's butler. He asked him about Hydes ugly appearance and his butler said no mail out of the ordinary was given to him. Then Mr Utterson got really suspicious and delved deeper into the case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Utterson then compared both men's handwriting and found that Jekyll supposedly plagiarized a letter for the murderer

Hyde.

Mr Utterson then consulted Dr Lanyon an old friend and he tells him that Dr Jekyll is foolish and his experiments and not scientific. Mr Utterson is beginning to get more and more evidence. He is concerned about Jekyll and visits him often. Knowing that Hyde will never return he stops thinking about the officials death. Dr Lanyon and Utteraon speak frequently and everything is swell until Dr Panyon becomes deathly ill for no apparent reason. Utterson tries to visit Jekyll but Jekyll is also sick and wants to be left alone. Utterson still likes to speak to Lanyon but his condition seems to be growing worse. Finally Lanyon dies and Utterson attends his funeral. Utterson is crushed by the loss of Lanyon but remembers a letter given to him by Lanyon to be opened after he died. He inspects it and sees another letter that says to be opened after Jekyll died. So he doesn't open it.

Later in the story Jekyll's butler tells him to come to Jekyll's house. The butler tells about how sick Jekyll is. He says he looked nothing like himself. Kinda like Mr Hyde. Finally they break into Jekyll's lab and Find Hyde dead, poisoned to death. Also they learn that Jekyll might be alive but the biggest shock is that a new will is made and the recipient of everything is Utterson.

Utterson is still stumped about what is going on and has no idea about Jekyll's dark secrets. He mingles about the mysteries of Jekyll and later in the book reads Jekyll's confessions. To sum up Jekyll's confessions he was a rich kid that had always hides his bad side to come off good natured. He was always guilty for thinking bad thoughts and doing bad things. As grew he became more curious about how to split the two pwrsonalities. Being a scientist he studies potions to make himself into two men. Utterson realizes that Hyde was his evil side and Jekyll was his regular self. Then it explains the murder. Hyde was becoming more of him than his actual self and he started to becom Hyde without taking potion. He was scared and didn't take potion for two months. Then he slipped up and took potion making a much stronger Hyde leading to the murder of the official. He then explains that Hyde became so powerful that he became permanently Hyde. He also said that by the time Utterson reads this he will be dead.