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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850
a sickly child, respiratory troubles
as a young man, he travelled through
Europe, leading a bohemian lifestyle
At the age of 26, he met a married woman,
Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, and fell in
love with her. She divorced, they married.
In 1880s he reached a tremendous success
after Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Suffered from tuberculosis, moved to
Samoa, died at the age of 44 there.
1/ Robert Louis Stevenson was born in London.
F: Edinburgh
2/ His wife was already divorced when they fell in
love.
F: She divorced after she met him.
3/ Stevenson never became successful during his
life, he gained success post mortem.
F: He did already after Treasure
Island.
4/ He moved to Polynesia.
T: To Samoa (Polynesian island)
5/ He died of heart attack at the age of 55.
F: tuberculosis, 44
Dr. Henry Jekyll
• A respected doctor and friend of both Lanyon and Utterson..
• Jekyll can‘t handle his dark side and makes experiments to separate
his good and evil selves.
• Through these experiments, he brings Mr. Hyde into being.
Mr. Edward Hyde
• A strange ugly man, violent and cruel
• Hyde is Jekyll’s dark side, released into the world by a mysterious
potion.
Mr. Gabriel John Utterson
• A prominent lawyer, well respected in the London community.
• He is rational and thus unable to deal with the supernatural nature of
the Jekyll-Hyde connection.
• Utterson denies the supernatural and wants rational explanations.
Dr. Hastie Lanyon
• A reputable London doctor
• Utterson and Jekyll‘s friend.
• Lanyon contrasts Jekyll
Lanyon = rationalism, materialism, and scepticism
Jekyll = mysticism, supernaturalism
Mr. Poole
• Jekyll’s butler and a loyal servant
• he worked for the doctor for twenty years
• He likes Jekyll and thus, when he thinks that something happened to
Jekyll, runs to seek Utterson’s help.
Mr. Enfield
• A distant cousin and lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson
Mr. Guest
• Utterson’s clerk and confidant.
• Guest is also an expert in handwriting.
• Utterson wants him to examine a bit of Hyde’s handwriting. Mr. Guest
notices that Hyde’s script is the same as Jekyll’s, but slanted the other
way.
1/ Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Utterson and Dr. Lanyon are friends.
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2/ Mr. Utterson is a respectable doctor.
F: a lawyer
3/ Mr. Poole is Utterson‘s servant.
F: Jekyll‘s
4/ Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll‘s best friend.
F: They are the same person.
5/ Dr. Jekyll is as rational as Dr. Lanyon.
F: Jekyll is mystic, irrational.
6/ Mr. Enfield is Jekyll‘s friend.
F: Utterson‘s
Utterson and Enfield talk about the
mysterious Mr. Hyde who tramples a young
girl.
Dr. Jekyll comes to Utterson with his last will,
saying that all property goes to Mr. Hyde.
Utterson follows Mr. Hyde to the house
where Dr. Jekyll lives.
After some time, Mr. Hyde reappears and
beats to death an old man named Sir
Danvers Carew.
Utterson suspects Hyde.
Utterson leads the police to Hyde’s
apartment, but he is not there.
Utterson visits Jekyll, he says he ended his
friendship with Hyde.
Jekyll shows Utterson a note, written to
Jekyll by Hyde, saying goodbye.
Mr. Guest says the handwriting is like
Jekyll‘s own.
Jekyll is sociable and friendly again, but
soon starts to refuse visitors.
Lanyon dies. Before dying, however, he
gives Utterson a letter (not to be open until
Jekyll’s death.)
Jekyll is hiding in his laboratory.
Mr. Poole comes to Utterson for help.
They break into the lab and find Mr. Hyde‘s
dead body in Jekyll‘s clothes.
Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde committed a suicide.
Utterson finds a letter by Dr. Jekyll.
The two letters
First, Utterson reads Lanyon‘s letter:
it reveals that Lanyon’s death was caused by the shock
of seeing Mr. Hyde take a potion and metamorphose
into Dr. Jekyll.
Then, Jekyll‘s letter:
At first, Jekyll reports, he was delighted in becoming
Hyde. Then he found that he was turning into Hyde
involuntarily in his sleep, even without taking the potion.
After he killed Sir Carew, Jekyll tried to stop the
transformations, and for a time he proved successful;
one day, however, while sitting in a park, he suddenly
turned into Hyde, the first time that an involuntary
metamorphosis had happened while he was awake. He
knew he‘d become Mr. Hyde permanently and
wondered if if Hyde would face execution for his crimes
or choose to kill himself.
1/ Who does Jekyll mention in his will as his
heir?
Mr. Hyde
2/ Where does Utterson see Hyde going?
To Jekyll‘s laboratory
3/ What does Mr. Hyde look like?
He is ugly
4/ Who sees Mr. Hyde murder Sir Carew?
A servant girl
5/ How does Jekyll start to behave after Mr. Hyde
murders Sir Crew?
He becomes sociable and friendly.
6/ What does Mr. Guest say about Mr. Hyde‘s
handwriting on the note for Dr. Jekyll?
It‘s very similar to Jekyll‘s
handwriting.
7/ Why does Mr. Poole go to Mr. Utterson?
To ask for help/ Dr. Jekyll locked
himself in his lab.
8/ What do they find after they break into the
lab?
Hyde‘s dead body in Jekyll‘s clothes.
9/ Why did Lanyon die?
Shock after he witnessed Jekyll‘s
transformation.
10/ What made Jekyll transform?
A potion which he invented.
11/ Why does Hyde kill himself?
Because he can‘t face the
execution for his crimes.
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