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The document summarizes 10 chapters of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". It describes how John Utterson and Gabriel John Enfield discover the story of Mr Hyde, a mysterious man connected to Utterson's friend Dr Jekyll. Utterson investigates Hyde and discovers evidence linking him to a murder. The document also describes how Dr Jekyll transforms into Hyde through a scientific experiment, but begins losing control over this transformation with troubling consequences.
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- 2. Chapter 1 : Story of the Door The story begins with John Utterson and Richard Enfield whom taking their regular Sunday stroll on street at London. They come upon a neglected building, and Enfield recalls a story in connection with it. Enfield tells Utterson about an odd incident he witnessed － a shrunken, misshapen man crash into and trample a young girl. Enfield managed to catch the man before he could get away, and brought him back to the girl around whom an angry crowd had gathered. As he tells the story to Utterson, he never mentioned any name － which led Utterson asks several pointed questions. Enfield then mentioned the culprit's named, which is Hyde.
- 3. Chapter 2: Search for Mr. Hyde Utterson, prompted by his conversation with Enfield, goes home to study a will that he draft for his close friend Dr. Jekyll. The will stated that in the event of the death or disappearance of Jekyll, all of his property should be given over immeadiately to a Mr. Edward Hyde. However, the will troubled Utterson. As he now learnt some of Hyde's behaviour, he becomes more upset and conclude that Hyde might have some peculiar power over Jekyll. Days later, Utterson encounters Edward Hyde in person. Upon the meeting, Utterson feels appalled and horrified yet cannot pinpoint exactly what makes Hyde so ugly and different.
- 4. Chapter 3: Dr. Jekyll Was Quite At Ease Jekyll throws a well-attended dinner party. Utterson stays late so that he and Jekyll can speak privately. Utterson mentioned about the will, however, Jekyll begins to joke about it. Later, he began pale as Utterson tells him that he knew something about Hyde. Jekyll explains to Utterson that the situation with Hyde is complicated and cannot simply be solved over a talk. He also made Utterson promised to carry out his will and testament.
- 5. Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case A year later, London was startled by a murder crime, which the victim was recognized as Sir Danvers Carew － a popular member of Parliament as well as one of Utterson's clients. A maid witnessed the murder and recognized Edward Hyde as the murderer. Utterson, accompanied by the police, went to Hyde's address. The police found the murder weapon, but unfortunately, there was no signs of Hyde.
- 6. Chapter 5: Incidents of the Letter Utterson calls on Jekyll, only to find him in his laboratory looking deathly ill. At that moment, Jekyll tells Utterson that his relationship with Hyde has ended as well as assures Utterson thet the police shall never find the man. Jekyll then shows Utterson a letter wrote by Hyde, stating that he mean to escape as well as deems himself unworthy of Jekyll's great generosity.
- 7. Utterson asks if Hyde dictated the terms of Jekyll's will － especially its insistence that Hyde inherit in the event of Jekyll's “disappearance”. Jekyll replies in the affirmative, and Utterson tells him that Hyde probably meant to murder him. Utterson then takes the letter and departs. That night, Utterson consults the letter to his trusted clerk, Mr. Guest, who happened to be an expert on handwriting. Mr. Guest compares Hyde's letter with some of Jekyll's own writing and suggests that the same hand inscribed both － which surprised Utterson.
- 8. Chapter 6: Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon As time passes by, there was no sign of Hyde’s appearance. Dr. Jekyll became well and happy, he held a dinner party inviting both Utterson and Lanyon. A few days later, Utterson could not reach Dr. Jekyll as he didn’t want to be visited by anyone. On the other hand, Lanyon was also not very well and looked sick. He was expected to die soon. Lanyon didn’t want to talk about Dr. Jekyll, as he said Utterson will know the truth but not at that moment. He also claimed that his friendship with Dr. Jekyll was over. Upon his death, Lanyon had left Utterson with an envelope before he died. There was also another envelope, but cannot be opened until the death of Dr. Jekyll.
- 9. Chapter 7: Incident at the Window On the next Sunday, Utterson and Enfield were walking passed the door where Enfield had seen Hyde entered. The door was actually a back way to Dr. Jekyll’s house. Utterson and Enfield were able to walk through the courtyard and saw Jekyll in a condition of sick and pale. Hence, Dr. Jekyll quickly shut the window and vanished.
- 10. Chapter 8: The Last Night Poole, Dr. Jekyll’s manservant appeared in front of Utterson’s house. He was afraid something happened to Dr. Jekyll and asked Utterson to accompany him to Dr. Jekyll’s house. Dr. Jekyll still didn’t want to see his old friend, Utterson. Poole believed that the person inside the room was not Dr. Jekyll, instead he was Hyde. They both used axes to get into the room and found out it was neat and clean but there was a man on the floor. That was Hyde, who committed suicide.
- 11. Chapter 9: Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative Dr. Jekyll had given Lanyon a letter, and he asked Utterson to read after their death. The letter was asking Lanyon to fulfil a huge and complicated request. The request was ; breaking and entering into Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory and giving some potions to a messenger who will arrive at Dr. Lanyon’s house at midnight. There was Hyde, who eagerly wanted to take the chemicals. He wore a big clothes. He took the chemicals and transformed into Dr. Henry Jekyll.
- 12. Chapter 10: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case Dr. Jekyll started his letter by explaining the different sides of his character. On the one hand, he loved being sober, dignified, and respectable, yet on the other hand he craved pleasure and debauchery. He enjoyed transforming from Dr. Jekyll to Hyde and vice versa. Dr. Jekyll begins to feel that he has to make a choice between his two personas. He also admitted that he beated Sir Danvers Carew to death. Dr. Jekyll rapidly got sicker and sicker, and Mr. Hyde grew more powerful. He ended his letter by saying Dr. Jekyll has most certainly died, so he could only speculate on what will happen to Mr. Hyde.
- 13. THE END