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- Utterson hears about Hyde trampling a girl and is shocked by his friend Jekyll's association with Hyde. - A year later, Hyde murders Carew and Jekyll withdraws, while Hyde disappears. Utterson investigates Jekyll's will and experiments. - At Jekyll's house, Utterson finds a dead body and reads Jekyll's confession revealing Hyde's true identity as Jekyll's dark alter ego.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson Presented To: Ma’am Anum Presented By: Abdul Aziz (1967) Fatima irum ( Minahil Fatima (1985) Sana Chaudhary(1996) Fatima Asif Kainat Qasim
Summary • Utterson hears the story of how Hyde, Jekyll’s friend, trampled on a girl. • Utterson meets Hyde and is shocked. He wonders why his respectable friend could befriend such a person. • A year later, Carew is murdered by Hyde. Jekyll is deeply affected by this and refuses to speak to anybody. Hyde goes missing. • Utterson goes to speak to Lanyon because he is concerned about Jekyll. Lanyon refuses to speak about Jekyll and hands Utterson a letter that must only be opened at the disappearance or death of Jekyll.
Summary • In the middle of the night, Utterson is summoned to Jekyll’s house where he breaks down the laboratory door and discovers a dead man. Utterson reads Jekyll’s newly amended will and takes Jekyll’s confession to read at home. • As Jekyll has disappeared, Utterson reads Dr Lanyon’s letter which tells him the true nature of Jekyll’s experiments. • Utterson reads Jekyll’s confession which reveals the true identity of Mr Hyde.
Characters
• Dr. Henry Jekyll • Dr Jekyll is a respected doctor and friend of both Lanyon, a fellow physician, and Utterson, a lawyer. • Dr Jekyll is well known in the community and known for his decency and charitable works, he is a seemingly prosperous man. • Since his youth, however, he has secretly engaged in unspecified dissolute and corrupt behaviour. • Troubled by is dark side Dr Jekyll undertakes experiments intending to separate his good and evil sides from one another. • Through these experiments, he creates Mr. Hyde, finding a way to transform himself in such a way that he fully becomes his darker side.
• Mr. Edward Hyd • Mr Hyde is the other identity of Dr Jekyll, but is first known to us as a separate character • Hyde is a strange, violent and cruel man who looks faintly pre-human. • Hyde is described by other characters as ugly and deformed, yet no one can say exactly why. • He is not a creature who belongs to the rational world, the world of conscious articulation or logical grammar. • Hyde is Jekyll’s dark side, released from the bonds of conscience and loosed into the world by a mysterious potion.
• Mr. Gabriel John Utterson • Mr Utterson is a prominent and upstanding lawyer, well respected in the London community. • The central character of the novel, who narrates most of the story, either directly or through documents which come into his possession. • He is introduced as a kind and reserved man, full of a sense of responsibility for his friends, but his faith is tested throughout Jekyll’s changing state. • He is also the counsel for, and close friend to, both Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Lanyon.
• Mr. Poole • Mr. Poole is employed as Dr. Jekyll’s butler and has been for many years. • He is good at his job and is very loyal to Dr. Jekyll. • It is Mr. Poole who eventually asks Mr. Utterson for help when he realizes that the situation with Jekyll is becoming unmanageable although Poole himself never understands the truth about who Jekyll is.
• Dr. Hastie Lanyon • Dr Lanyon is reputable London doctor and, along with Utterson, formerly one of Jekyll’s closest friends. • Dr Lanyon is the embodiment of rationalism, materialism, and scepticism, who serves as a foil (a character whose attitudes or emotions contrast with, and thereby illuminate, those of another character) for Jekyll. • His death represents the more general victory of supernaturalism over materialism in the novel.
• Mr. Enfield • Mr Enfield is a distant cousin and lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson. • Like Utterson, Enfield is reserved, formal, and scornful of gossip; indeed, the two men often walk together for long stretches without saying a word to one another.
• Mr. Guest • Mr Guest is Utterson’s clerk and confidant. Guest is also an expert in handwriting. • His skill proves particularly useful when Utterson wants him to examine a bit of Hyde’s handwriting. • Guest notices that Hyde’s script is the same as Jekyll’s, but slanted the other way.
• Maid • A Maid whose employer Hyde had once visited, is the only person who claims to have witnessed the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. • She states that she saw Hyde murder Carew with Jekyll’s cane and his feet. • Having fainted after seeing what happened, she then wakes up and rushes to the police.
• Sir Danvers Carew MP • Sir Danvers Carew is a wealthy and well-liked old nobleman, a member of Parliament, and a client of Utterson.
Themes • Duality of man • Jekyll asserts that “man is not truly one, but truly two,” • Stevenson uses the characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to expresses his beliefs about human duality by introducing them as two contrasting characters. • Using two completely different characters with different names and appearances gets his message of human duality across effectively.
• Good Versus Evil • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is as an allegory about the good and evil that exist in all men, and about our struggle with these two sides of our personality. • In the novella the battle between good and evil rages within the individual. • Since Hyde seems to be taking over, one could argue that evil is stronger than good. • However, Hyde does end up dead, perhaps suggesting a weakness or failure of evil. • The big question, of course, is whether or not good can be separated from evil, or whether the two are forever intertwined.
• Repression • Repression is indisputably a cause of troubles in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. • The repression here is that of Victorian Britain: no sexual appetites, no violence, and no great expressions of emotion, at least in the public sphere. Everything is sober and dignified. • The more Jekyll’s forbidden appetites are repressed, the more he desires the life of Hyde, and the stronger Hyde grows. • We see this after Dr. Jekyll’s two-month hiatus from being Hyde; Dr. Jekyll finds that the pull to evil has been magnified after months of repression.
• Friendship and Loyalty • Friendship in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde serves to drive the plot forward. Aside from human curiosity, Utterson is compelled to uncover the mystery of the evil man because of his friendship with Dr. Jekyll. • In trying to unravel the secret, he uncovers crucial pieces of information. • In this sense, friendship acts as both a motivator and an enabler. • As for the friendship between Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll, it’s certainly not as unconditional as the loyalty Mr Utterson bears for Dr. Jekyll. • Instead, it’s fraught with competition, anger, and eventually an irreconcilable quarrel. • We see that friendships can be ruined by differences of opinion.
• Appearances and Reputation • Appearances figure in the novel both figuratively and literally. • Dr. Jekyll definitely wants to keep up a well-respected façade, even though he has a lot of unsavoury tendencies. • In a literal sense, the appearances of buildings in the novel reflect the character of the building’s inhabitants. • Dr.Jekyll has a comfortable and well-appointed house, but Mr. Hyde spends most of his time in the “dingy windowless structure” of the doctor’s laboratory.
• Curiosity • In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, curiosity drives the characters to seek knowledge. • This curiosity is either suppressed or fulfilled in each character. • Curiosity lacks any negative connotation; instead, characters who do not actively seek to unravel the Jekyll and Hyde mystery may be viewed as passive or weak. • Finally, the characters’ curiosities are, to some degree, transferred over to the reader; we seek to solve the puzzle along with Mr. Utterson.
• Lies and Deceit • The plot is frequently driven forward by secrecy and deception; Mr.Utterson doesn’t know the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he wants to find out. • Also, by omitting the scenes of Mr. Hyde’s supposedly crazy debauchery, Stevenson allows our imaginations to run to wild and fill in the gaps.
• Violence • This novel details two crimes of violence against innocent and helpless citizens: first, a little girl, and second, an elderly man. • The violence in the novel centres on Mr. Hyde, and raises the question as to whether or not violence is an inherent part of man’s nature.
• Religion • God and Satan figure prominently in this text, as well as many general references to religion and works of charity. • As part of their intellectual lives, the men in the novel discuss various religious works. • One sign of Mr. Hyde’s wickedness, for example, is his defacing Dr. Jekyll’s favourite religious work. • Mr. Hyde is also frequently likened to Satan.
• Women and Femininity • Most female characters in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are passive and weak. • The first female we see is a young girl mowed over by Mr. Hyde. • Although she is “not much the worse, more frightened, “she still kicks up an incredible fuss and a large group of people come to her aid. • The next woman we see is via a maid’s narrative of the Carew murder. • After witnessing the murder, she faints, awakening long after the murderer is gone making her a passive spectator.
• Science, Reason and the Supernatural • Science Reason and the Supernatural are the main factors in the development of the conflict between Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll which is integral to the plot. • Dr. Lanyon adheres to a more traditional set of scientific notions then Jekyll. • In the book science becomes a cover for supernatural activities. Jekyll’s brand of science veers towards the supernatural.

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  • 1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson Presented To: Ma’am Anum Presented By: Abdul Aziz (1967) Fatima irum ( Minahil Fatima (1985) Sana Chaudhary(1996) Fatima Asif Kainat Qasim
  • 2. Summary • Utterson hears the story of how Hyde, Jekyll’s friend, trampled on a girl. • Utterson meets Hyde and is shocked. He wonders why his respectable friend could befriend such a person. • A year later, Carew is murdered by Hyde. Jekyll is deeply affected by this and refuses to speak to anybody. Hyde goes missing. • Utterson goes to speak to Lanyon because he is concerned about Jekyll. Lanyon refuses to speak about Jekyll and hands Utterson a letter that must only be opened at the disappearance or death of Jekyll.
  • 3. Summary • In the middle of the night, Utterson is summoned to Jekyll’s house where he breaks down the laboratory door and discovers a dead man. Utterson reads Jekyll’s newly amended will and takes Jekyll’s confession to read at home. • As Jekyll has disappeared, Utterson reads Dr Lanyon’s letter which tells him the true nature of Jekyll’s experiments. • Utterson reads Jekyll’s confession which reveals the true identity of Mr Hyde.
  • 5. • Dr. Henry Jekyll • Dr Jekyll is a respected doctor and friend of both Lanyon, a fellow physician, and Utterson, a lawyer. • Dr Jekyll is well known in the community and known for his decency and charitable works, he is a seemingly prosperous man. • Since his youth, however, he has secretly engaged in unspecified dissolute and corrupt behaviour. • Troubled by is dark side Dr Jekyll undertakes experiments intending to separate his good and evil sides from one another. • Through these experiments, he creates Mr. Hyde, finding a way to transform himself in such a way that he fully becomes his darker side.
  • 6. • Mr. Edward Hyd • Mr Hyde is the other identity of Dr Jekyll, but is first known to us as a separate character • Hyde is a strange, violent and cruel man who looks faintly pre-human. • Hyde is described by other characters as ugly and deformed, yet no one can say exactly why. • He is not a creature who belongs to the rational world, the world of conscious articulation or logical grammar. • Hyde is Jekyll’s dark side, released from the bonds of conscience and loosed into the world by a mysterious potion.
  • 7. • Mr. Gabriel John Utterson • Mr Utterson is a prominent and upstanding lawyer, well respected in the London community. • The central character of the novel, who narrates most of the story, either directly or through documents which come into his possession. • He is introduced as a kind and reserved man, full of a sense of responsibility for his friends, but his faith is tested throughout Jekyll’s changing state. • He is also the counsel for, and close friend to, both Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Lanyon.
  • 8. • Mr. Poole • Mr. Poole is employed as Dr. Jekyll’s butler and has been for many years. • He is good at his job and is very loyal to Dr. Jekyll. • It is Mr. Poole who eventually asks Mr. Utterson for help when he realizes that the situation with Jekyll is becoming unmanageable although Poole himself never understands the truth about who Jekyll is.
  • 9. • Dr. Hastie Lanyon • Dr Lanyon is reputable London doctor and, along with Utterson, formerly one of Jekyll’s closest friends. • Dr Lanyon is the embodiment of rationalism, materialism, and scepticism, who serves as a foil (a character whose attitudes or emotions contrast with, and thereby illuminate, those of another character) for Jekyll. • His death represents the more general victory of supernaturalism over materialism in the novel.
  • 10. • Mr. Enfield • Mr Enfield is a distant cousin and lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson. • Like Utterson, Enfield is reserved, formal, and scornful of gossip; indeed, the two men often walk together for long stretches without saying a word to one another.
  • 11. • Mr. Guest • Mr Guest is Utterson’s clerk and confidant. Guest is also an expert in handwriting. • His skill proves particularly useful when Utterson wants him to examine a bit of Hyde’s handwriting. • Guest notices that Hyde’s script is the same as Jekyll’s, but slanted the other way.
  • 12. • Maid • A Maid whose employer Hyde had once visited, is the only person who claims to have witnessed the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. • She states that she saw Hyde murder Carew with Jekyll’s cane and his feet. • Having fainted after seeing what happened, she then wakes up and rushes to the police.
  • 13. • Sir Danvers Carew MP • Sir Danvers Carew is a wealthy and well-liked old nobleman, a member of Parliament, and a client of Utterson.
  • 14. Themes • Duality of man • Jekyll asserts that “man is not truly one, but truly two,” • Stevenson uses the characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to expresses his beliefs about human duality by introducing them as two contrasting characters. • Using two completely different characters with different names and appearances gets his message of human duality across effectively.
  • 15. • Good Versus Evil • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is as an allegory about the good and evil that exist in all men, and about our struggle with these two sides of our personality. • In the novella the battle between good and evil rages within the individual. • Since Hyde seems to be taking over, one could argue that evil is stronger than good. • However, Hyde does end up dead, perhaps suggesting a weakness or failure of evil. • The big question, of course, is whether or not good can be separated from evil, or whether the two are forever intertwined.
  • 16. • Repression • Repression is indisputably a cause of troubles in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. • The repression here is that of Victorian Britain: no sexual appetites, no violence, and no great expressions of emotion, at least in the public sphere. Everything is sober and dignified. • The more Jekyll’s forbidden appetites are repressed, the more he desires the life of Hyde, and the stronger Hyde grows. • We see this after Dr. Jekyll’s two-month hiatus from being Hyde; Dr. Jekyll finds that the pull to evil has been magnified after months of repression.
  • 17. • Friendship and Loyalty • Friendship in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde serves to drive the plot forward. Aside from human curiosity, Utterson is compelled to uncover the mystery of the evil man because of his friendship with Dr. Jekyll. • In trying to unravel the secret, he uncovers crucial pieces of information. • In this sense, friendship acts as both a motivator and an enabler. • As for the friendship between Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll, it’s certainly not as unconditional as the loyalty Mr Utterson bears for Dr. Jekyll. • Instead, it’s fraught with competition, anger, and eventually an irreconcilable quarrel. • We see that friendships can be ruined by differences of opinion.
  • 18. • Appearances and Reputation • Appearances figure in the novel both figuratively and literally. • Dr. Jekyll definitely wants to keep up a well-respected façade, even though he has a lot of unsavoury tendencies. • In a literal sense, the appearances of buildings in the novel reflect the character of the building’s inhabitants. • Dr.Jekyll has a comfortable and well-appointed house, but Mr. Hyde spends most of his time in the “dingy windowless structure” of the doctor’s laboratory.
  • 19. • Curiosity • In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, curiosity drives the characters to seek knowledge. • This curiosity is either suppressed or fulfilled in each character. • Curiosity lacks any negative connotation; instead, characters who do not actively seek to unravel the Jekyll and Hyde mystery may be viewed as passive or weak. • Finally, the characters’ curiosities are, to some degree, transferred over to the reader; we seek to solve the puzzle along with Mr. Utterson.
  • 20. • Lies and Deceit • The plot is frequently driven forward by secrecy and deception; Mr.Utterson doesn’t know the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he wants to find out. • Also, by omitting the scenes of Mr. Hyde’s supposedly crazy debauchery, Stevenson allows our imaginations to run to wild and fill in the gaps.
  • 21. • Violence • This novel details two crimes of violence against innocent and helpless citizens: first, a little girl, and second, an elderly man. • The violence in the novel centres on Mr. Hyde, and raises the question as to whether or not violence is an inherent part of man’s nature.
  • 22. • Religion • God and Satan figure prominently in this text, as well as many general references to religion and works of charity. • As part of their intellectual lives, the men in the novel discuss various religious works. • One sign of Mr. Hyde’s wickedness, for example, is his defacing Dr. Jekyll’s favourite religious work. • Mr. Hyde is also frequently likened to Satan.
  • 23. • Women and Femininity • Most female characters in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are passive and weak. • The first female we see is a young girl mowed over by Mr. Hyde. • Although she is “not much the worse, more frightened, “she still kicks up an incredible fuss and a large group of people come to her aid. • The next woman we see is via a maid’s narrative of the Carew murder. • After witnessing the murder, she faints, awakening long after the murderer is gone making her a passive spectator.
  • 24. • Science, Reason and the Supernatural • Science Reason and the Supernatural are the main factors in the development of the conflict between Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll which is integral to the plot. • Dr. Lanyon adheres to a more traditional set of scientific notions then Jekyll. • In the book science becomes a cover for supernatural activities. Jekyll’s brand of science veers towards the supernatural.