Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 1
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We’re introduced to Mr. Utterson who, despite being rather dry and boring, is a good friend and goodnatured man.
We’re introduced to his friend and relative Mr. Enfield. The two of them take long walks every Sunday
that are slightly mysterious.
One Sunday they walk past a door, which prompts Mr. Enfield to tell a story. Naturally.
Mr. Enfield’s story goes like this:
Early in the morning, he sees a man trample over a little girl. Mr. Enfield corners the man.
The man is evil-looking and deformed.
The entire crowd wants to kill the man, who responds with something along the lines of "I’ll give you
lots of money if you don’t kill me."
He disappears inside and emerges with a "cheque" for almost 100 pounds, drawn from the bank
account of a well-respected man.
The check is genuine.
Mr. Enfield speculates that the evil man is blackmailing the well-respected man.
Mr. Enfield says that he calls the place with the door "Black Mail House."
The two men then speculate about the door, and Mr. Enfield finally says that his policy on odd events
is not to ask any questions of any kind.
Mr. Utterson has no such policy; he asks Mr. Enfield for the name of the man who trampled the child.
It is Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Utterson then declares that he knows the name of the well-respected man. This whole story hits
home for him.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 2
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Mr. Utterson goes home, and instead of his usual evening routine, he goes to a safe and takes out a
set of documents.
The documents decree that if Dr. Jekyll is to die or disappear in any way, his entire estate is to be
passed over to Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Utterson seems to think that something is rotten in the estate of Dr. Jekyll.
In lieu of further solitary pondering, he decides to go hang out with his good friend Dr. Lanyon.
Turns out Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Lanyon, and Mr. Utterson were once good friends.
It also turns out that Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll have had a huge argument about science.
Mr. Utterson asks if Dr. Lanyon has heard of Mr. Hyde. Answer is no.
That night, Mr. Utterson can’t sleep. He dreams crazy dreams about Mr. Hyde and speculates about
the evil man’s hold over Dr. Jekyll.
Mr. Utterson basically starts stalking the door to Black Mail House, in an effort to catch Mr. Hyde.
The two finally meet, and Mr. Utterson is totally repulsed by Mr. Hyde’s terrible manners and
appearance.
Mr. Utterson goes directly to Dr. Jekyll’s house and asks to see his friend. Dr. Jekyll is not home.
Mr. Utterson gossips with the butler about Mr. Hyde, and discovers that all the servants have orders to
obey this mysterious, evil man.
Mr. Utterson goes home pretty sad and distraught and afraid for his friend, because nothing is worse
than being potentially blackmailed by a horrible man who oozes evil out of his pores.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 3
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Two weeks later, Dr. Jekyll gives a dinner party for five or six old men.
Mr. Utterson is the guest who deliberately stays later than everyone else.
He asks about Mr. Hyde and the strange will.
Dr. Jekyll begs Mr. Utterson to let the issue drop, saying that he’s taken an interest in Mr. Hyde.
And that’s that. It’s all very mysterious.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 4
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Almost a year later, everyone in London is shocked by a terrible crime.
A maid saw everything. Her testimony ran as follows:
She was sitting in her window and saw a sweet and gentle and kind old gentleman asking a young
man for directions.
She recognizes the young man as Mr. Hyde.
Suddenly, Mr. Hyde beats the old gentleman to death.
The maid faints.
Hours later, she finally calls the police.
The old man has a letter on him addressed to Mr. Utterson.
Mr. Utterson (who seems to be everybody’s lawyer) accompanies a police officer to the crime scene.
He recognizes the body as Sir Danvers Carew, and the broken walking stick (read: murder weapon)
as one that he had given to Dr. Jekyll some years before.
Mr. Utterson offers to take the police officers to Dr. Jekyll’s house, where they poke through everything
but are unable to find Mr. Hyde.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 5
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Mr. Utterson goes to visit Dr. Jekyll, who looks extremely sick.
Mr. Utterson asks if Dr. Jekyll is harboring Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jekyll swears that he will never see or
contact Mr. Hyde again.
Dr. Jekyll gives Mr. Utterson a letter written by Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Utterson shares it with his head clerk, Mr. Guest, who just happens to be a handwriting expert.
A messenger happens to deliver an invitation written by Dr. Jekyll.
Mr. Guest declares that the two pieces of writing were written by the same hand.
Mr. Utterson goes to bed very disturbed, convinced that Dr. Jekyll forged the letter from Mr. Hyde.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 6 Summary
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Despite a massive manhunt, Mr. Hyde is nowhere to be found.
Dr. Jekyll becomes well and happy, throwing dinner parties and engaging in charitable works.
Mr. Utterson dines with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Lanyon on the eighth of the month, and all is well, but on the
12th, 14th, and 15th, he is denied admittance to the doctor’s house, on the grounds that Dr. Jekyll is
ill.
Mr. Utterson calls on Mr. Lanyon, who looks near death. So both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Lanyon are ill.
Mr. Lanyon claims that his friendship with Dr. Jekyll is over.
Mr. Utterson writes to Dr. Jekyll, who replies with a similar message.
A week later, Mr. Lanyon, confined to his bed, dies.
In the spirit of the novel and its mysterious documents, Mr. Lanyon left Mr. Utterson with an envelope
before he died.
Upon opening it, Mr. Utterson finds…yet another envelope. This one is not to be opened until the
death or disappearance of Dr. Jekyll.
Mr. Utterson is totally tempted to open up this mysterious envelope, but he resists.
Mr. Utterson longs for the company of his old friend, Dr. Jekyll, but on every visit the servants say that
Dr. Jekyll has shut himself up in his laboratory.
Mr. Utterson finally begins to suspect that Dr. Jekyll himself has engaged in some evil doings.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 7
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Mr. Utterson, on his weekly walk with Mr. Enfield, passes by the door that started this whole novel.
(That would be the Black Mail Door – remember?)
Turns out the door is a back way to Dr. Jekyll’s house.
The two friends step into the courtyard with all the windows, and chance to see Dr. Jekyll at the
window, looking sickly and pale.
They chat briefly before Dr. Jekyll completely freaks out, slamming the window and scaring Mr.
Utterson and Mr. Enfield.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 8
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Dr. Jekyll’s manservant, named Poole, shows up at Mr. Utterson’s door, convinced that something
terrible has befallen his master.
He convinces Mr. Utterson to accompany him back to Dr. Jekyll’s house.
They arrive at the house, where all the servants are collectively freaking out.
Poole announces Mr. Utterson’s presence. Dr. Jekyll refuses to see his old friend. Same old song and
dance.
Based on the voice coming from behind the door, Poole is convinced that the man in the room is not
Dr. Jekyll.
Poole and Mr. Utterson chat about the events of the past week. Dr. Jekyll, or whoever is inhabiting the
room in the laboratory, has been issuing chemical orders via slips of paper. He hasn’t been able to
obtain whatever it is that he’s looking for.
Poole is convinced that the man inside the room is really Mr. Hyde.
Using an axe and a kitchen poker, Poole and Mr. Utterson break into the room.
Inside the room, everything is very neat and clean and in perfect order. Except for the body of a man
lying on the floor and "twitching."
It’s Mr. Hyde. He has committed suicide.
The two men search the area, looking for Dr. Jekyll.
Mr. Utterson finds a will naming him as the heir to Dr. Jekyll’s estate.
Mr. Utterson, in a seemingly endless tirade of paper discovery, finds yet two more documents. The
first instructs him to read Dr. Lanyon’s narrative, and the second is a narrative written by Dr. Jekyll.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 9
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Dr. Lanyon receives a letter from Dr. Jekyll, asking him, in the name of their long and esteemed
friendship, to perform a complicated favor.
The favor involves breaking and entering into Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory and giving some potions to a
messenger that will arrive at Dr. Lanyon’s house at midnight.
Dr. Lanyon does as the letter requests.
Mr. Hyde shows up eager to take the chemicals. He’s wearing clothes that are much too big for him.
He takes the chemicals and transforms into Dr. Henry Jekyll.
This is quite a disturbing sight, especially for a man of science such as Dr. Lanyon.
See the back for the final chapter
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 10
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Dr. Jekyll starts his letter by explaining the two sides of his character: on the one hand, he loves being
sober, dignified, and respectable, yet on the other hand he craves pleasure and debauchery.
In his research, he discovers how to split these two natures into two men.
He takes a potion, and immediately feels both extreme pleasure and extreme wickedness.
This heathen-ness is accompanied by a transformation into Mr. Edward Hyde.
He takes the potion and transforms back into Dr. Jekyll.
He therefore does not succeed in creating someone wholly good and someone wholly evil, but rather
himself and a wholly evil version of himself.
He makes various arrangements for his new self: a house, a housekeeper, a new will, etc. You need
stomping grounds for the evil version of yourself.
Then he goes nuts as Edward Hyde – unfortunately, he gives us no descriptions beyond
"wickedness."
His conscience does not trouble him, because as Dr. Jekyll, he continues being respectable.
When he knocks over the child as Mr. Hyde, he has to use Dr. Jekyll’s bank account to not get killed
by the angry mob. Soon after, he opens a bank account in Mr. Hyde’s name.
Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, Dr. Jekyll wakes up one morning as Mr. Hyde.
This is disconcerting, to say the least, and Dr. Jekyll begins to feel that he has to make a choice
between his two personas.
For the next two months, he lives a respectable life as Dr. Jekyll.
But he longs to become Mr. Hyde again. So one evening, he takes the transformative potion.
Then he beats Sir Danvers Carew to death.
Horrified, he breaks the key to his laboratory and potions, and resumes a sober life as Dr. Jekyll.
But the secret urges remain, and one day, sitting in the park, his thoughts grow evil and he transforms
into Mr. Hyde.
Away from his potions, and wearing the face of a wanted murderer, Dr. Jekyll sends a note to Dr.
Lanyon with specific instructions.
It works: Mr. Hyde transforms back into Dr. Jekyll, but Dr. Lanyon’s friendship is lost forever.
But all is not solved. One day thereafter, Dr. Jekyll is walking in his courtyard and transforms AGAIN
into Mr. Hyde.
He runs into his laboratory, but it takes a double dose to restore himself to the appearance and
personality of Dr. Jekyll.
Six hours later, he again transforms.
Dr. Jekyll rapidly gets sicker and sicker, and Mr. Hyde grows more powerful and more insistent.
Then he runs out of potions. Panicking, he sends his servants all around London looking for a specific
kind of salt.
None of them works, convincing Dr. Jekyll that there must have been some unknown impurity in the
first sample that lent the potions its efficacy.
He ends his letter by saying Dr. Jekyll has most certainly died, and he can only speculate on what will
happen to Mr. Hyde. He says he is bringing "the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end," but we
never really know if Jekyll killed himself (and Hyde) before Hyde took over, or whether Hyde, for some
unknown reason, killed himself.