In Lanyon's presence, Hyde mixed the potion and transformed back to Jekyll - ultimately leading to Lanyon's death. He wrote to Lanyon (in Jekyll's hand) asking his friend to retrieve the contents of a cabinet in his laboratory and to meet him at midnight at Lanyon's home in Cavendish Square. Far from his laboratory and hunted by the police as a murderer, Hyde needed help to avoid being caught. This was the first time that an involuntary metamorphosis had happened in waking hours. However, before he completed his line of thought, he looked down at his hands and realized that he had suddenly transformed once again into Hyde. One day at a park, he considered how good a person he had become as a result of his deeds (in comparison to others), believing himself redeemed. For a time, he proved successful by engaging in philanthropic work. Horrified, Jekyll tried more adamantly to stop the transformations, as now his scapegoat was no longer safe. After the transformation, he immediately rushed out and violently killed Carew. One night however, the urge gripped him too strongly. Initially, Jekyll was able to control the transformations, but then he became Hyde involuntarily in his sleep.Īt this point, Jekyll resolved to cease becoming Hyde. But as Jekyll used Hyde to act out his desires more and more, he effectively became a sociopath - evil, self-indulgent, and utterly uncaring to anyone but himself. The second letter explains that Jekyll, having previously indulged unstated vices (and with it the fear that discovery would lead to his losing his social position), found a way to transform himself and thereby indulge his vices without fear of detection. The first reveals that Lanyon's deterioration and eventual death resulted from seeing Hyde drinking a serum or potion and subsequently turning into Jekyll. Utterson takes the document home where he first reads Lanyon's letter and then Jekyll's. They find also a letter from Jekyll to Utterson promising to explain the entire mystery. Inside, they find the body of Hyde wearing Jekyll's clothes and apparently dead from suicide. When Jekyll refuses to leave his lab for weeks, Utterson and Jekyll's butler Mr. Before his death, Lanyon gives Utterson a letter to be opened after Jekyll's death or disappearance. Hastie Lanyon, a mutual acquaintance of Jekyll and Utterson, dies of shock after receiving information relating to Jekyll. Carew was a client of Gabriel Utterson, Jekyll's lawyer and friend, who is concerned by Hyde's history of violence and the fact that Jekyll changed his will, leaving everything to Hyde. However, it is Hyde's violent activities that seem to give him the most thrills, driving him to attack and murder Sir Danvers Carew without apparent reason, making him a hunted outlaw throughout England. Hyde may have been reeling in activities such as engaging with prostitutes or buggery. Thus, in the context of the times, it is abhorrent to Victorian religious morality. Stevenson never says exactly what Hyde does, generally saying that it is something of an evil and lustful nature. As time goes by, Hyde grows in power and eventually manifests whenever Henry Jekyll shows signs of physical or moral weakness, no longer needing the serum to transform. Jekyll decides to take advantage of this, naming this transformation of his "Edward Hyde", and uses his new persona to act out his hidden desires free of consequences while keeping his social status as Jekyll. However, in doing so, Jekyll transforms into a hideous creature, who appears a lot younger than he usually does. Jekyll develops a serum in an attempt to mask this hidden evil. He spends his life trying to repress evil urges that are not fitting for a man of his stature. This process happens more regularly until Jekyll becomes unable to control when the transformations occur.ĭoctor Henry Jekyll is a doctor who feels that he is battling between the benevolence and malevolence within himself. Instead, Jekyll transforms into Edward Hyde, the physical and mental manifestation of his evil personality. In an attempt to hide this, he develops a type of serum that he believes will effectively compartmentalize his dark side. Jekyll is a kind and respected English doctor who has repressed evil urges inside of him. In the story, he is a good friend of main protagonist Gabriel John Utterson. Edward Hyde, is the central character of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Henry Jekyll FRS, nicknamed in some copies of the story as Harry Jekyll, and his alter ego, Mr. Hyde in an 1887 stage adaptation of Stevenson's novella.ĭr. Actor Richard Mansfield originated the dual portrayal of Dr.
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