Chapter 1 - Story of the

Door
Utterson and Enfield pass strange-looking door (entrance to Dr Jekyll's laboratory). Enfield
recalls story involving a man trampling on a young girl. (Reader later learns man is Mr Hyde.)

A crowd gathered, to avoid a scene, man offered to pay girl compensation. This was
accepted, and he opened door with key and re-emerged with money and large cheque.

Utterson is very interested in the case.

MAIN CHARACTERS: UTTERSON and HYDE

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Utterson]

 “A man of rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile”

 “ he was austere with himself”
 “I incline to Cain’s heresy…I let my brother go to the devil in his own way…”
 “[he was] the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of
down-going men”

[Hyde described by Enfield]

 “ It wasn’t like a man; it was some damned juggernaut”

 “the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the
ground”
 “something down-right detestable

[Enfield]

 “I was coming back from some place at the end of the world”

[Setting described by Enfield]

 “The door… was blistered and distained”

 “Blackmail house is what I call that place with the door, in consequence”

MAIN THEMES: Violence, secrecy and hypocrisy

Chapter 2 - Search for Mr
Hyde
Utterson is troubled by what he has heard. He takes will of friend Dr Jekyll from safe. It
contains worrying instruction: in event of Dr Jekyll's disappearance, all his possessions go to
Mr Hyde.

Utterson visits Dr Lanyon. Lanyon has never heard of Hyde, and not seen Jekyll for ten years
(hints of falling out). That night Utterson has terrible nightmares.

He starts watching door (which belongs to Dr Jekyll's old laboratory) at all hours, and
eventually sees Hyde unlocking it. Utterson is shocked by sense of evil coming from him.

Utterson goes next door to warn his friend, Jekyll, against Hyde, but is told by servant,
Poole, that Jekyll is out and the servants have all been instructed by Jekyll to obey Hyde.

Utterson is worried that Hyde may kill Jekyll to benefit from the will.

MAIN CHARACTERS: UTTERSON, LANYON & HYDE

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Jekyll described by Lanyon]

 “Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind…
Unscientific balderdash”
 “[Jekyll] was wild when he was young”

[Lanyon]

 “a hearty healthy dapper red-faced gentleman”

 “somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling”

[Hyde]

 “Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”

 “Mr Hyde was pale and dwarfish”
 “murderous mixture of timidity and boldness”

[Utterson]

 “If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought I shall be Mr. Seek”

MAIN THEMES: Rationalism and the supernatural

Chapter 3 - Dr Jekyll Was

Quite at Ease
Two weeks later, following dinner party with friends at Jekyll's house, Utterson stays behind
to talk about will.

Jekyll laughs off Utterson's worries, comparing them to Lanyon's 'hidebound' (conventional
and unadventurous) attitude to medical science. Jekyll's behaviour has become unusual.

Utterson persists with subject of will. Jekyll hints at a strange relationship between himself
and Hyde. Although he trusts Utterson, Jekyll refuses to reveal details. He asks him, as his
lawyer not his friend, to make sure will is carried out. He reassures him he can be rid of Mr
Hyde.

MAIN CHARACTER: JEKYLL

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Jekyll]

 “ a large well-made smooth-faced man of fifty”

 “you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr Utterson a sincere and warm
affection”
 “certain incoherency of manner”
 “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde”

[Utterson]

 “where Utterson was liked he was liked well”

MAIN THEMES: Secrecy

Chapter 4 - The Carew
Murder Case
An elderly gentleman is brutally clubbed to death in street by Hyde. The murder is
witnessed by maid.

A letter addressed to Utterson is found on body and police contact him. He recognises
murder weapon as broken half of a walking cane he gave to Jekyll years earlier. When he
hears that murderer is Hyde, he offers to lead police to his house.

They are told that Hyde has not been at home for two months. But when they search house
they find other half of murder weapon and signs of a hasty exit.

MAIN CHARACTERS: HYDE

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[London]

 “London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity”

 “like a district of some city in a nightmare”

[Officer]

 “ and the next moment his eye lighted up with professional ambition”
 “this will make a deal of noise”

[Carew]

 “an aged beautiful gentleman with white hair”

[Hyde]

 “He broke out in a great flame of anger”

 “with ape-like fury he was trampling his victim under foot”
 “the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped”
 “clubbed him to the earth”
 “the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity”

MAIN THEMES: Good vs. evil, violence and repression

Chapter 5 - Incident of the
Letter
Utterson goes to Jekyll's house and finds him 'looking deadly sick'. He asks whether he is
hiding Hyde. Jekyll assures him he will never see or hear of Hyde again. He shows Utterson a
letter from Hyde that indicates this.

Utterson asks Guest, his head clerk, to compare handwriting on letter to that on an
invitation from Jekyll. There is a resemblance between the two, though with a different
slope.

Utterson believes Jekyll has forged letter in Hyde's handwriting to cover his escape.

MAIN CHARACTERS: JEKYLL

KEY QOUTATION:
[Jekyll]

 “Utterson, I swear to God…I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind
my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end”

MAIN THEMES: Secrecy

Chapter 6 - Remarkable
Incident of Dr Lanyon
Police cannot find Hyde. Jekyll seems happier and, for two months, he is normal.

Suddenly, however, he appears depressed and will not see Utterson. Utterson visits Dr
Lanyon to discuss friend's health, but finds Lanyon on his death-bed. Lanyon refuses to
discuss Jekyll who, he hints, is cause of his illness.

Trying to find out what has happened, Utterson writes to Jekyll. He receives reply which
suggests Jekyll has fallen into a disturbed state.

Lanyon dies and leaves letter for Utterson in an envelope marked “not to be opened till the
death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll”. Utterson locks it away unopened in safe.

Utterson tries to revisit Jekyll several times, but servant, Poole, says he is living in isolation
and will not see anyone.

MAIN CHARACTERS: LANYON AND JEKYLL

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Jekyll]

 “whilst he had always been known for charities, he was now no less distinguished for
religion”
 “for more than two months the doctor was at peace”
 “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also”

[Lanyon]

 “He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face”

 “deep seated terror of the mind”
 “I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away”
Chapter 7 - Incident at the
Window
Utterson and Enfield are taking one of their walks. They pass Jekyll's window and see him
looking like a prisoner in solitary confinement. Utterson calls out to him and Jekyll replies,
but his face suddenly freezes in horror.

Change in Jekyll's expression is sudden and horrible; they are shocked and terrified, depart
in silence.

MAIN CHARACTERS: Jekyll

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Jekyll]

 “like some disconsolate prisoner”

 “an expression of such abject terror and despair as froze the very blood of the two
gentlemen below”

[Utterson]

 “God forgive us! God forgive us!”

MAIN THEMES: Repression, supernatural

Chapter 8 - The Last Night
Poole and Utterson go to laboratory, but door is locked. The voice inside does not sound like
Jekyll and both men believe it is Hyde.

Poole says voice has been crying out for a particular chemical to be brought for days, but
chemicals given have been rejected as not pure and earlier he saw a person in the lab that
looked scarcely human.

They break down door and find body, twitching. In its hand are remains of a vial. Body is
smaller than Jekyll's but wearing clothes that would fit him.

On table is will dated that day which leaves everything to Utterson, with Hyde's name
crossed out. There is also a package containing Jekyll's confession and letter asking Utterson
to read Dr Lanyon's letter.

MAIN CHARACTERS: JEKYLL AND HYDE

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Hyde/Jekyll]

 “There lay a body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching”

 “Bogy of a self-destroyer”

[Poole describing Hyde]

 “that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals”

MAIN THEMES: Secrecy, Good vs Evil, Duality of man, Supernatural

Chapter 9 - Dr Lanyon's
Narrative
Utterson reads Lanyon's letter

Chapter 9 is Dr Lanyon's letter. It tells of how Lanyon received letter from Jekyll asking him
to collect drawer containing chemicals, vial and notebook from Jekyll's laboratory and to
give it to man (Hyde) who would call at midnight.

Lanyon says he was curious, especially as book contained some strange entries. Hyde
appears. He is small and grotesque, wearing clothes that are too large for him. Man offers to
take the chemicals away, or to drink the potion in front of Lanyon.

Lanyon accepts and, before his very eyes, Hyde transforms into Dr Jekyll. In horror Lanyon
becomes seriously ill.

MAIN CHARACTERS: LANYON

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Jekyll to Lanyon]

 “Lanyon my life, my honour, my reason are all your mercy”

[Lanyon]

 “I have had since reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of
man”
 “I have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before I see the end
“
 “O God! ...O God!”
 “my mind submerged in terror”
 “My life is shaken to the roots”
 “the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me”

MAIN THEMES: Duality of Man, rationalism and supernatural

 Chapter 10 - Henry Jekyll's
Full Statement of the Case
Utterson reads Jekyll’s confession.

Jekyll tells story of how he turned into Hyde.

It began as scientific curiosity in duality of human nature (or good and evil), and his attempt
to destroy darker self. However, he became addicted Hyde, who increasingly took over and
destroyed him.

Novel does not return to Utterson who, at end of Chapter 8, was to return to Jekyll's house.

MAIN CHARACTERS: JEKYLL

KEY QOUTATIONS:
[Jekyll]

 “that man is not truly one, but truly two”

 “my new power tempted me until I fell in slavery”
 “my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring”
 “ I felt younger, lighter, happier in body”
 “innocent freedom”
 “The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but
shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition”
 “I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the
other was still the old Henry Jekyll”
 “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.”
 “I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde.”
 “Sold a slave to my original self”
 “I learned to recognise the thorough and primate duality of man”

MAIN THEMES: Duality of Man