FORM 3 NOVEL: DR. JEKYLL AND MR.

HYDE

The book begins with two men, Mr. Utterson and his cousin Mr. Richard Enfield, on a
walk in London. Although the two men are initially silent, after passing a mysterious
cellar door in a basement, Mr. Enfield launches into a strange occurrence that centered
around the door. Late one night, while he was on his way home, he chanced upon a
deformed, short man who trampled a girl in the street who was on her way to get a
doctor. The girl's family and Mr. Enfield catch the mysterious man and instead of
getting the police, they decide to blackmail him and force him to give the girl's family
money. Agreeable, the mysterious man disappears into the same cellar door and comes
out with a check bearing not his own name, but that of the respectable Dr. Jekyll.
Surprisingly, the check was not a forgery. 

After hearing the story, Utterson returns to his home where he removes Dr. Jekyll's
mysterious will, which he recently filed with Mr. Utterson. Jekyll's will stated that in
case of his death, his substantial estate will pass to Mr. Hyde, but even stranger, in
case of his disappearance for more than three months, Hyde will assume Jekyll's life
without delay. He also realizes that the mysterious door is connected, in an L shape
way, to Jekyll's home. Utterson decides that Jekyll is being blackmailed by Hyde and
seeks to search to see his face in order to understand why. After tracking him down, he
is initially civil but turns angry when Utterson proceeds in the conversation. 

One year later, Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew with a cane. With help from Utterson,
the police find Hyde's apartment ransacked. After leaving, Utterson proceeds to Jekyll's
and confronts him for harboring a murder. Jekyll claims that he is done with Hyde and
promises that he has nothing left to do with him. He does, however, have a farewell
note from Hyde. Utterson examines the note and his clerk, Mr. Guest, later discovers
that the handwriting from the note matches a dinner invitation written by Dr. Jekyll.
Angrily, Utterson assumes that Jekyll has forged a letter for a murderer. More time
passes, and we learn that although Hyde has not been located, Dr. Jekyll becomes
more and more social until one day Utterson attended a dinner party at Jekyll's where
Lanyon was present. Shortly there after, Jekyll secluded himself and Dr. Lanyon fell ill
and died. After his death, Dr. Lanyon left Jekyll a letter than instructed him not to read
it for ten years. After these mysterious events, Enfield and Utterson again walk by the
mysterious door. Through one of the windows, they witness Jekyll having a frightening
seizure through the windows of the cellar. 

About a week later, Poole, Jekyll's butler, approaches Utterson, who is afraid because
Jekyll has locked himself in the basement and the only things that hear is strange
sounds, including crying. The only communication that has come is letters desperately
asking for a specific type of salt. Utterson follows Poole to Jekyll's house and breaks
down a red cabinet where the body of Hyde is found. In the laboratory, the two
discover a large envelope addressed to Mr. Utterson. Inside, Jekyll urges Utterson to
read the package from Lanyon and if he wished to know more, read the further
description that Jekyll provided within the envelope. 

Lanyon's narrative begins by describing a strange letter he received from Henry Jekyll,
the night after a dinner party at Jekyll's residence. The letter urges Lanyon to go to
Jekyll's house and get the contents of a drawer in the laboratory. Afterwards, a strange
caller will come to Lanyon's house in Jekyll's name and recover these same items,
powder, a phial, and a paper book. Lanyon does as much, thinking that Jekyll is crazy,
and Mr. Hyde appears at the subscribed time. He gives Hyde the ingredients; Hyde
mixes them into a potion, and after drinking it transforms into Dr. Jekyll. This shock,
the pure evilness of the situation, was what brought about Lanyon's subsequent death. 

After reading the account of Dr. Lanyon, Utterson then reads Jekyll's own account of his
failed experiment. Jekyll believed that the soul is made up of two separate distinctions:
evil and the good. These two separate beings live in continuous and inherent conflict
with each other. Slowly, Jekyll begins an experiment where he makes two potions and
transforms himself into Edward Hyde. Shortly after becoming Hyde, he drinks a second
potion and once again becomes Henry Jekyll. This experiment begins Jekyll's
exploration of his other self, a side that he freely explores and feels no remorse for the
negative and evil actions of Mr. Hyde. 
For some months, this behavior continued until one moment, "I had gone to bed Henry
Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde." Alerted that the character of Hyde might
irrevocably stay, Jekyll chose to give up the freedom of Hyde and for two months his
decision held weight. Unfortunately, he was tortured with Hyde's longing and he once
again took the potion and brutally murdered Carew. Because of the manhunt for Hyde,
he swore this character off forever and set out to try to remedy the evil. This, however,
failed because Hyde was an irrevocable part of Jekyll's character. One night, while
contemplating the deeds of Hyde, Jekyll was once again transformed into Edward Hyde.
Realizing that he could not return to his house, he sent the letter to Dr. Lanyon and Mr.
Poole and went immediately to a hotel. He went home once again but every time he
would fall asleep, he would revert to Mr. Hyde. Soon, his potions began to fail to work
and he ran out of the salt needed for the potion. Hyde launches a desperate search
across London for this potion, but was unsuccessful. In the end, Hyde kills himself and
therefore lets both Jekyll and Hyde free
1. Who is the author of the novel?
2. When was the€ novel written?
3. Where does the story take place?
4. Guess:
a. Who is Dr Jekyll and who is
Mr Hyde?
b. How are they related to each
other?
1. Name two places Mr. Richard Enfield
had gone to before he witnessed the
terrible incident.
2. What made Edie walk alone in the wee
hours of the night?
1. Whose signature was the title refer
to?
2. How much did Mr Hyde need to pay as
compensation?
3. Which bank issued the cheque?
1. Who labeled the blackmail house?  3. What made Mr. Utterson decide to
2. Who is Richard to Mr. Utterson?
1. Who is searching for Mr. Hyde?
2. Why is he searching for Mr. Hyde?
3. What did he do when he found Mr.
Hyde?
1. What made Mr. Utterson think that
Mr. Hyde was deformed and yet was
sound of body?
2. Was Mr.  Utterson successful in
convincing Dr Jekyll that he should
not proceed with his will? Why?
1. How did the maidservant recognize
Mr. Hyde?
2. Who identified the victim as Sir
Danvers Carew?
3. How did Mr. Utterson know where Mr.
Hyde lives?
1. What was the content of the letter?
2. How did Dr Jekyll receive the letter,
as he claimed?
3. What made Mr. Utterson sense that
Dr Jekyll lied about how he received
the letter?
1. How many months had passed since
the disappearance of Mr. Hyde?
2. Why do you think Dr Jekyll turned to
his solitary life again?
3. What made Dr Lanyon say that his
days are numbered?
1. What was Dr Jekyll doing when Mr.
Utterson saw him?
2. What happened to Dr Jekyll in the
middle of their conversation?
1. Why was Poole afraid?
2. Why did Mr. Utterson start when he
heard the voice from inside the
laboratory?
break the laboratory door at last?
1. Why was the long mirror in the
laboratory?
2. Where do you think Dr Jekyll had
been?
1. Why do you think Dr Jekyll regarded
his life was at Dr Lanyon’s mercy?
2. Who lived in Cavendish Square?
3. Why do you think Dr Jekyll could not
take the content of the drawer
himself?
1. What made Dr Jekyll experiment the
drug on himself?
2. Why didn't Dr Jekyll share his
scientific formula in his confession?