i hate how some gha be the cat a hat and he bat as Major Characters: The major characters in this book are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who are physically the same person but not in any other way. There is also Dr. Lanyon and Mr. Utterson.
Dr. Jekyll is a very educated doctor. He is in his mid 40’s and has black wavy hair. He is an average height man. He is very interested in the split personalities of people in which he refers to as “dual nature of humanity.” Mr.
Hyde is the evil part of Dr. Jekyll. Mr. Utterson is very respectable and honest man. Mr. Utterson is the one that uncovers the secret behind Dr.
Jekyll’s experiment. Mr. Utterson is Dr. Jekyll’s and Mr. Lanyon’s Lawyer. Dr.
Lanyon is an old friend of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson. He does not believe in Dr. Jekyll’s experiments. When he finds out that Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one, he is very shocked. Minor Characters: There are a few minor characters in this story. There is Mr. Enfeild who is a cousin of Mr. Utterson.
Enfeild is the first person to notice the strange behavior of Dr. Jekyll (Mr. Hyde). There is also Poole, Dr. Jekyll’s very faithful servant. He asks for Mr.
Utterson’s help when he assumes Dr. Jekyll was murdered. In specter Newcomen is a police inspector from Scotland Yard who is investigating the Carew murder case. Mr. Utterson has a chief clerk who’s name is Mr.
Guest. Mr. Guest is the one who Discovers the similarity in the handwriting’s of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Bradshaw is Dr. Jekyll’s footman. He guards the house to make sure Mr. Hyde doesn’t escape.
Sir Danvers Carew is a very respected guy who Mr. Hyde murders which sets of the search for him by the police. Last but not least there is a servant who sees Mr. Hyde assaulting Carew and tells the police. Setting: The story takes place in the nineteenth-century. The location this story takes place in is London.
The first eight chapters of the story move quickly between many different locations. However it is mainly in the street by the back door of Dr. Jekyll’s house and inside the houses of Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, Dr. Lanyon, and Mr.
Utterson. Chapters nine and ten are documents written by Mr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll, and have no specific location. Plot: Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde is a story about a smart doctor who makes a drug that can make the evil side of a person come out. This drug changes Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde.
The author does not mention that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one person until the end of the book. The story begins on a street in Soho. Mr.
Utterson and his cousin, Mr. Enfield, are taking a walk. They stop at a weird door, and Mr. Enfield tells Mr. Utterson that a while back, he had seen a weird and bad-tempered man crush a small girl and then walk away.
Mr. Enfield and a few others had made the stranger pay money to the girl’s family to not get in trouble. The man then walked in the door and gave ten pounds in gold and a check signed by Dr. Jekyll. This stranger is Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Enfield has a hard time describing Mr. Hyde, and also everyone that was there found him strange. Mr. Utterson goes home, very bothered, and reads Jekyll’s will which is with him, and it says that if he dies or disappears, his entire house should go to his ‘friend and benefactor Edward Hyde.’ He then visits Dr. Lanyon to ask him if he knows anything about Mr.
Hyde, but Dr. Lanyon says he hasn’t seen him lately. Mr. Utterson begins searching for Mr. Hyde.
One day he sees him at the door, but Mr. Hyde was suspicious of Mr. Utterson’s actions, and gets mad and runs into the house. Mr.
Utterson, is also puzzled by Mr. Hyde. He goes to Dr. Jekyll’s house and meets with Poole (Jekyll’s butler).
This is when it is found out that the mysterious door is the back door to Dr. Jekyll’s house. Poole tells Mr. Utterson that Mr. Hyde has access to the house and that the servants must obey him. A few weeks later, after a dinner party, Mr.
Utterson tries to convince Dr. Jekyll to change his will but Dr. Jekyll won’t do so. So Utterson is now convinced that Mr. Hyde is blackmailing Dr. Jekyll.
About a year later, Mr. Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew. Utterson visits Jekyll and is surprised to find him looking sick. Jekyll gives Utterson a letter that he says is from Mr. Hyde. It states that Hyde is making a successful escape and that Dr.
Jekyll won’t need to go through trouble about his safety. Mr. Hyde vanishes and Dr. Jekyll gets his health and spirits again. He even reunites with Lanyon.
One day after a dinner party he goes into this sudden hiding stage and refuses to see Mr. Utterson. Confused, Mr. Utterson again visits Mr. Lanyon and is shocked because he finds him near death. A few weeks later Mr.
Lanyon dies. In his papers is an envelope to Mr. Utterson, and it says that it cannot be opened except on the death or disappearance of Dr. Jekyll. Mr.
Utterson has a feeling that Mr. Hyde must somehow be involved and is both curious and suspicious but he does not open the envelope. Dr. Jekyll continues to remain in his hiding stage and eventually Mr. Utterson stops trying to see him. One Sunday, Mr.
Utterson and Mr. Enfield go for their usual walk and they happen to pass by the back of Dr. Jekyll’s house. They see Dr. Jekyll sitting near the window looking sad. When they speak to him, he gets happy for a second, before he is hit with a look of terror and pain and closes the window.
Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson get very scared and walk away in silence. They don’t realize it but they just saw the beginning of the changing process from Dr.
Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. One day, Poole comes to Mr. Utterson and asks him for his help. They go back to Dr. Jekyll’s house.
Dr. Jekyll has locked himself in his laboratory and has been sending Poole out to different chemists in search for a weird drug. Poole fears that Jekyll has been murdered and that someone or something is hiding in Jekyll’s laboratory. The two men break into the laboratory and find the body of Edward Hyde. Hyde has committed suicide. They suddenly start looking for Dr.
Jekyll’s body and they find an envelope from Dr. Jekyll addressed to Mr. Utterson, telling him to read Dr. Lanyon’s note and then his own, which is the enclosed confession. In Dr. Lanyon’s note he reveals that he had discovered that Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were one person. Dr. Jekyll confesses in his written statement that he had wanted to separate the good and the bad points of himself and had came up with a drug, which make that happen. By turning into Mr.
Hyde, which was his evil side, he committed many crimes and escaped punishment for them. He could not help his actions. Over time, Mr. Hyde became stronger and soon he was becoming Mr. Hyde without the drug.
He managed to keep Mr. Hyde in control by taking the drug that transformed himself back into Dr. Jekyll, but soon he ran out of that drug. He wrote his confession as Dr. Jekyll, when he used the last drug.
He knew that soon he would turn into Mr. Hyde permanently. He did not care what would happen to Mr. Hyde. Opinion: I honestly loved this book. I really like mystery books but non of them are usually this good.
I think that this was just pure mystery. I liked how everything was kept such a secret until the last two chapters. I think the author of this book had a very good imagination. This book is just one of a kind. I also like this book because it kept me constantly interested, I always wanted to read and find out what was going to happen next. Overall, on a scale of one to ten (ten being the highest) I would give this book an eleven for being such a good mystery book..