Chapters 3 and 4 JEKYLL AND HYDE

Chapters 3 and 4 JEKYLL AND HYDE

Dr. Jekyll Was Quite as Ease Jekyll has a dinner party Jekyll talks to Utterson after party. He “cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm afection” Utterson wants to talk about Jekyll’s will.

Jekyll’s take on the situation Jekyll changes the conversation to one of Lanyon, with whom he feels “disappointed” He believes that Hyde is “a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant” Pedant: a person who overemphasizes his knowledge Hide-bound: rigid, unpleasant

Jekyll Becomes angry when Utterson brings up the will, ignoring the discussion of Lanyon When Utterson wants to talk about Hyde, “The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. ” He says that “I am painfully situated…my position is very strange- a a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking”

Utterson Says to Jekyll… “Make a clean breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get you out of it. ” Jekyll’s response: “…if I could make the choice; but indeed it isn’t what you fancy…I will tell you one thing; the moment I choose, I can be rid of Hyde…I beg of you to let it sleep. ” “I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in the young man…”

Chapter 4 The Crew Murder Case Setting: fog rolling over the city, the night was cloudless and the street was “brilliantly lit my the full moon” Maid is looking out the window She sees an “aged beautiful gentleman with white hair” meeting up with “a very small gentleman” The men get into a disagreement

Carew Murder Hyde “broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carring on like a madman” Carew takes a step back and then “…Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And the next moment, with apelike fury, he was trmapling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of bows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway”

Utterson’s Involvement He is called by the police because the murdered man had a letter which had the name and address of Mr. Utterson The cane used to kill Carew was a gift he had given Jekyll many years before.

Setting Shift “…the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-colored pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapors; so that as the cab crawled from street to street…there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown. . like a district of some city in a nightmare”

Investigating Hyde When Utterson and the Inspector speak to the maid and say that Hyde is in trouble, “a flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman’s face. ” Why “odious” joy? The house appears to have been recently ransacked, clothes on the floor, drawers open and papers burned

Information about Hyde “…Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars – event he master of the servant maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely… Only on one point were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive expressed his beholders.

Chapter 5 Incident of the Letter Utterson goes to Jekyll’s house Jekyll says that he will never “set eyes on [Hyde] again” and that “it is all at an end”. Jekyll explains that he has received a letter and is not sure what to do with it Utterson reads the letter which discusses that Hyde has left and Jekyll need not worry that he will return No envelope…

Utterson and the will. . again Asks Jekyll if Hyde had “dictated the terms in your will about that disappearance” Jekyll “seemed seized with a qualm of faintness and then “shut his mouth tight and nodded” Jekyll tells Utterson “…what a lesson I have had! And he covered his face for a moment with his hands”

Meeting with Mr. Guest Utterson’s head clerk “The fog slpt on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town’s life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind” Utterson doesn’t keep secrets from Guest

Guest Is told many secrets by Utterson, but he doesn’t necessarily always keep the secrets Had often been on business to the doctors He knew Poole He is a great student and critic of handwriting Would be able to give Utterson an evaluation of the letter Finds similarities between Jekyll’s handwriting and that of Hyde

Chapter 6 Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon disappeared Hyde has Hyde’s past is revealed – cruelty, callous, violent; vile life, strange associates, hatred in his career. Jekyll’s life begins anew – he renews relations with his friends and is focused on charity and religioun. For more than two months, the doctor was at peace

Utterson Went to a party with Lanyon and Jekyll on January 8 th, but after that, Jekyll will not come to the door. It has been two months since Jekyll has been seen Goes to see Dr. Lanyon and is chocked at the change in the doctor’s appearance because “he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face” Lanyon explains – “I have had a shock and I shall never recover. ” Explains that it has been a few weeks.

Utterson When he asks Lanyon about seeing Jekyll, “Lanyon’s face changed and he held up a trembling hand. ” He tells Utterson that “I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead. ” Lanyon says that “I cannot tell you” the reason why Jekyll might not want to see him and why Lanyon is angry with im

Letters between Utterson and Jekyll Utterson mad that Jekyll hasn’t welcomed him Jekyll says that he has to “henceforth lead a life of extreme seclusion” and that Utterson shouldn’t be surprised if “my door is often shut even to you” Jekyll says he will “…go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name.

Jekyll’s letter to Utterson “I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not thinkg htat this earth contained a lace for suffering and terros so unmanning; and you can do but one thing, Utterson, to lighten this destiny, and that is to respect my silence. ”

Lanyon’s death Utterson receives a letter sealed by Lanyon with another letter inside which indicates that Utterson shouldn’t open until the disappearance of Jekyll. Utterson refuses to open it even though he wants to Finds out that Jekyll has been living in the lab