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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Full Book Summary. On their weekly walk, an eminently sensible, trustworthy lawyer named Mr. Utterson listens as his friend Enfield tells a gruesome tale of assault. The tale describes a sinister figure named Mr. Hyde who tramples a young girl, disappears into a door on the street, and reemerges to pay off her relatives ...
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Jekyll’s butler (Poole) comes to get Utterson’s help when Jekyll has not been seen for days. Utterson agrees to help and breaks down the door with Poole. They do not find Dr Jekyll, just the body of Hyde. Mr Utterson picks up Jekyll’s confession and reads it, along with Dr Lanyon’s narrative.
ISBN. 978-0-553-21277-8. Text. Strange Case of Dr Hyde and Mr Jekyll at Wikisource. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde[ 1 ] is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr ...
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Wider Reading Booklet. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Preface to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Jekyll and Hyde – Part 1. ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Jekyll and Hyde – Part 2. Gothic fiction in the fin de siècle: mutating bodies and disturbed minds.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886, is a classic tale of duality and the consequences of unchecked scientific experimentation. It is now more commonly known as just Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Set in Victorian London, the novella tells the story of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a well-respected ...
Many writers have been influenced by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, leading to a legacy of psychological dramas and split personality characters in literature, including The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, whose protagonist is likewise haunted by a rival self, an image of youth and beauty. The monstrosity that can be caused by scientific ...
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Oct 31, 1992 · The will was holograph, for Mr. Utterson though he took charge of it now that it was made, had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it; it provided not only that, in case of the decease of Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., etc., all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his “friend and benefactor Edward Hyde,” but that in case of Dr. Jekyll’s ...
