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 Characters Utterson’s personality/characteristics? Nature of Utterson and Enfield’s relationship?  Enfield’s story: Setting:  Street (2) vs. Door (3)

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1  Characters Utterson’s personality/characteristics? Nature of Utterson and Enfield’s relationship?  Enfield’s story: Setting:  Street (2) vs. Door (3)  Haze of night, street lamps  Buildings, p. 7 “very odd story”?  Did Hyde do anything wrong?  Impressions? (pp. 4, 7) Why won’t Enfield pursue story? (p. 6)  Elements of mystery/intrigue?

2  Significance of Jekyll’s will?  Dr. Lanyon, view of Jekyll? (11)  Utterson’s dreams  Encounter between Utterson & Hyde (15) I do not love thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr Fell.  Jekyll’s house – two entrances

3  Encounter between Utterson & Jekyll  Jekyll’s view of Lanyon? (19-20)

4  Passage of time (year later)  Description of murder (23); also, note significance of another narrative/narrator  Hyde’s house & reaction of servant (25)  Condition of Hyde’s apartment?

5  Utterson & Jekyll meet in laboratory/dissecting rooms, now in a state of disrepair (28)  Change in Dr. Jekyll: “deathly sick,” “cold hand,” changed voice” (28-29)  Trust in Utterson’s judgment  Letter from Hyde Lets Jekyll “off the hook”; Hyde will disappear According to Poole, no message delivered Issue of handwriting (Guest) – p. 33 Utterson: Jekyll has forged the letter to cover up for Hyde!

6  Hyde’s past (34)  Meanwhile, a “new life” for Jekyll (34) …  Followed by description of Lanyon’s transformation for the worse (35) and eventual death (37) …  Followed by another change in Jekyll! (36-7)  Two more letters – p. 37  “disappearance” reminds Utterson of will

7  Cycles back to novel’s beginning – walk and conversation between Utterson and Enfield Door from Ch. 1 (connected to Jekyll’s house) “three dusty windows barred with iron” (28)  What do Utterson & Enfield see?? (Reaction – p. 40)

8  Change in Poole: “his manner was altered for the worse” (41)  Locked inside Jekyll’s laboratory? Jekyll sick, seeking medicine? Hyde? Confirmation that it is Hyde  Again, various narratives within narratives, letters within letters  New will – change? (again, note “disappearance”)  End of narrative proper: Ch. 9 = “Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative” Ch. 10 = “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”

9  Letter from Jekyll – request of Lanyon?  Jekyll’s materials, notes … “double” (58)?  Description of Hyde: “odd, subjective disturbance” (59) “idiosyncratic, personal distaste” (59) Clothes too large (60)  Unlike Victor F. (to Walton), Hyde gives Lanyon the choice about whether or not to pursue knowledge (62) Remember, this is Hyde – that is, the dark part of Jekyll – who wishes to enact revenge for Lanyon’s earlier statements of disbelief and ridicule In a sense, similar to Henry Frankenstein from the original film!  Transformation from Hyde -> Jekyll (63)  Lanyon’s reaction? Horror at physical transformation itself?  OR Realization that ALL people have capacity for evil?

10  Next chapter = “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”  Predictions?  What’s left to be said?  Any further questions/confusion/mystery?

11  Early years, pre-experiments: “hard to reconcile” desires for pleasure & to remain dignified and serious (64); thus, “I concealed my pleasures … hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame” (64) “profound duplicity of life … those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature” (64) Truth: “man is not truly one, but truly two” (65)  Purpose of experiment? “If each … could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable” (65) “It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together – that in the agonized womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling” (66)  Hyde Initial impressions: “incredibly sweet … younger, lighter, happier in body … freedom of the soul … delighted me like wine … exulted …” (67) Why smaller? “The evil side of my nature … was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed” (68)

12  Jekyll/Hyde ≠ Good/Evil “Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” (69) However, Jekyll is still “commingled out of good and evil” (68-9)  Freudian/Victorian/Darwinian Implications “I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty” (70) “It was Hyde after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty … And thus [Jekyll’s] conscience slumbered” (71)

13  Hyde Grows in Stature “details of the infamy” (71) are left out (Sex? Violence?) Incident with girl (1 st chapter) “I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awaken Edward Hyde” (72) “I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse” (74) Jekyll now must CHOOSE:  “Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll” (74)  “for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost” (74) Despite choosing Jekyll, in a moment of “moral weakness,” Hyde is again summoned, now with a “more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill” (75) Murder of Carew leads to decision to reject Hyde, return to doing good … Nevertheless, in a moment of PRIDE (“vainglorious thought”), Jekyll suddenly transforms into Hyde Symbolic implications of Hyde out of control, taking over at will?


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