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Scarica Summary and comment of The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Summary of “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Mr. Utterson was a lawyer and once, while he was walking with his friend Mr. Enfield, they came to a door which brought bad memories to Enfield: he explained Utterson that one morning an ugly man trampled on a little girl after they had crashed into one another. Enfield and the other people who had seen the scene made the man pay one hundred pounds for what he had done, even if he didn’t want to pay so much. The thing that surprised Enfield was that the man had paid with a cheque, that he went to take at the door, of a well-known person that he couldn’t reveal. He instead revealed the name of the ugly man to Utterson – it was Hyde. They agreed to never talk about it again. After dinner that evening, Utterson went to his business-room and opened his safe to take a will, the Dr. Jekyll’s will. The doctor, on his death, left all to Edward Hyde, the man who Enfield had seen that morning. The lawyer was really disturbed by that, because now he knew who Hyde was, and it was not comforting. He went to his friend Dr. Lanyon, who also knew Jekyll, but he had never heard about Hyde. So, he tried to back at the door everyday, and one night he was able to talk with him. The lawyer felt a cold sensation talking with Hyde, who was rude and suspicious. When Hyde entered the door, Utterson went to the front door of Jekyll, asking for information about Hyde to Poole, a servant. The ugly man had entered by the laboratory door because he had the key of that door. Two weeks later the lawyer tried to talk about Hyde with Jekyll but he only said the lawyer that he didn’t need to worry. About a year later, in October a man was murdered. A maid saw from her window the entire scene and it seemed that Hyde was the killer. The murdered had an envelope with him, which was addressed to Mr. Utterson. The police went to him and he understood that the killed was Sir Danvers Carew. They tried to find Hyde at his house but his maid hadn’t seen him come back home. He seemed to have disappeared, they weren’t able to find him. Utterson went to Jekyll to tell him about what happened but he knew and he swore he would never see Hyde again. The doctor also showed to Utterson a letter written from Hyde, and the lawyer kept it with him for examination. With his clerk, they arrived to the conclusion that the handwriting of the letter was the Jekyll’s, so it seemed that the doctor had to write that letter for Hyde. After some months, Hyde seemed to be disappeared and Jekyll returned to his ordinary life. But a day, when Utterson went to visit him, his servant Poole said that the doctor couldn’t receive visitors. So, the lawyer tried to go to his friend Lanyon, thinking he knew something about that. When Utterson came to him, he found him sick and with a shocked expression on his face. The man didn’t want to talk about Jekyll and he didn’t give explanations to Utterson. So, the lawyer tried to write a letter to Jekyll, but all he got was another letter, very mysterious and sad, where the doctor said he didn’t want to meet anyone and he couldn’t meet Lanyon anymore. The latter died a week later. Utterson had a letter from him, but he didn’t have to read it until Jekyll’s dead, so he put it in his safe. The lawyer continued to ask Poole about his master’s health, and one day, during a walk with Enfield, they saw Jekyll at the window and started to talk with him, but after few minutes he became strange and the two walked away. One night, the lawyer received a visit from Poole. The servant asked him to come at Jekyll’s home. Poole explained Utterson that the doctor was closed in his office, begging for a medicine that he couldn’t find. But the servant was sure that in the room there wasn’t his master but Hyde, because he saw a little man in the laboratory who ran in the office of Jekyll as soon as he realized he was being seen. So, Utterson and Poole decided to break down the door and, once opened, they found the body of Hyde on the floor. They tried to find Jekyll’s body but there was no way. In the cabinet there were a will, where Jekyll left all to Utterson, and a letter, it too from Jekyll, where he said that the lawyer had to read Lanyon’s letter and the doctor’s confession to know more about what happened to him. Utterson went home and started to read the Lanyon’s letter. He read that his friend received a letter from Jekyll where he had asked for help, and Lanyon followed all the instructions in the letter even if he was puzzled. At midnight, as the letter said, a man went to Lanyon and they went together in the consulting room. There, Lanyon discovered about the double nature of his friend Dr. Jekyll. The man who went at his house was Mr. Hyde and, with a strange liquid, he became Jekyll. After the first, Utterson read the second letter. The confession of Jekyll started from the discover of a double nature in him, a bad side that he couldn’t show. And he tried to hide that but he suffered in doing so. After a dream, where each part of him was separate from the other, he tried to make this possible. He created a potion with a particular salt and, after he had drunk it, he became for the first time Hyde. He felt better in having the two parts of him separated, because he was becoming more famous and he wanted deeper pleasures. But he once had an accident with the girl that Enfield saw and, after some months of no transformation, his bad side was so bad that, after he had drunk the potion again, Hyde killed a man. So, Jekyll tried to not drink the liquid anymore and live a normal life. But a day, in a moment of distraction in a park, Jekyll became Hyde without drink the potion. He run in his house in Soho, and wrote that letter to Lanyon for recover the potion at his house, because a murderer couldn’t come home, naturally. In that occasion, Lanyon discovered the story of the potion and Jekyll understood that the power of Hyde was growing. He went to bed as Jekyll and he woke up painful, so he took a double quantity of potion. Hyde grew stronger and Jekyll was at the point of finish his first quantity of the liquid, so he tried desperately to remake it, but the salts he used were different and they contained an impurity. Finished the salts, he couldn’t never be Jekyll anymore. So, he wrote the letter for Utterson and then died forever, for drug overdose. Comment of “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” I liked this book for his dark and suspenseful atmosphere, in fact during all the book we have a secret to discover that is revealed only in the last pages.