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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde



  • Strange case of Dr jekylle and Mr hide is also know as Dr. jekyll and Mr. hide. This novel is written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. It is a Gothic novel which is based on a science experiment by a well learned Doctor which went wrong and its consequences on the Doctor as well as the society.




  • The novel starts when a conversation is going on between Mr. Gabriel John Utterson, Utterson and his friend Mr. Richard Enfield. he tells how returning home in the early hours of the morning, he witnessed a horrible incident. A Young girl, running across the street, was ran off by a man named Mr. Edward Hyde, who left her screaming on the ground. After being caught, Hyde, agreed to pay the child’s family.He described Hyde as an unlikely to look at and wicked person.


  • Utterson has in his files a will in which Jekyll gives his everything to Hyde.the lawyer utterzon visits Dr. Hastie Lanyon, a longtime friend of both Jekyll and Utterson. when he went to Jekyll's home he came to know from the butler, Poole, that Jekyll is not at home and that his servants have orders to obey Hyde.


  • Then for some time everything became normal again.Almost a year later a maid witnesses Hyde beating to death a  gentleman who is also a client of Utterson’s. Utterson leads the police to Hyde’s home but he was not at his home.


  • Jekyll seems healthier and happier in the next few months but later starts refusing visitors. Utterson visits dying Lanyon, who gives Utterson a document to be opened only after Jekyll’s death or disappearance. Weeks later, Poole requests that Utterson come to Jekyll’s home, as he is fearful that Hyde has murdered Jekyll. When Poole and Utterson break into the laboratory office, they find Hyde’s body on the floor and three documents for Utterson from Jekyll. then he realized that the handwriting og jekyll and hyde are the same.


  • Lanyon’s and Jekyll’s documents reveal that Jekyll had secretly developed a potion to allow him to separate two different personality from one body. He was able to transform his body in to a smaller in hight and dominant in nature- Mr. Hyde. in the beginning he has not any difficulty in returning to his original personality but he soon found himself slipping into Mr. Hyde without recourse to his drug. He temporarily stopped using his potion, but, when he tried it again, Mr. Hyde committed murder.
  •  After that, it took a vast amount of potion to keep him from not accidentally and suddenly becoming Mr. Hyde. Unable to make any more of the drug because of an unknown impurity in the original supply, Jekyll soon ran out of the drug. Indeed, he took the last of it to write a confession before becoming Hyde permanently and died in the end with the revelation of the side effects of knowing more than enough and using it in real life.

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