Utterson asks whether Jekyll is concealing Hyde, to which Jekyll responds that he has heard the news and declares that he is finished with Mr. Hyde. He assures Utterson that Mr. Hyde is “safe” and will not be heard from anymore. Dr.
He assumes that if the letter had not been received at the main door, it must have been written in the laboratory itself, which implies more threat to Dr. Jekyll. On the street, newspaper boys are selling the headline about Sir Carew, the murdered MP.
He learns that Dr. Lanyon and Jekyll have had a falling out (over science but he doesn't know that). Ch. 2: Find an allusion in this chapter. When Lanyon compares his relationship to Jekyll with Damon and Pythias. Used to show how much the relationship was damaged. Ch. 2: Why does Mr. Utterson want to see Mr. Hyde's face?
That afternoon, Utterson has come to Dr. Jekyll ’s house and is taken for the first time to the “dissecting rooms” (the house had belonged to a surgeon before). This is a dingy building, separated from the main house by a courtyard. On the ground floor of this out building is an old operating theater, now eerily empty.
What is Enfield's plan to stop Hyde? He must know something bad Jekyll has done. Enfield plans on convincing Utterson to investigate Hyde's past. Consider Hyde's actions, the effect his appearance has on how people view him, and the effect he has had on Enfield and the doctor (they feel like murdering him).
Why do you suppose Mr. Utterson is concerned about the fact that Mr. Hyde has a key to the residence? He suspects that Hyde knows the owner and fears the owner is being blackmailed by Hyde.
The lawyer is stunned by Hyde's behavior. Enfield was right; Hyde does have a sense of "deformity . . . a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness." Utterson realizes that until now he has never felt such loathing; the man seemed "hardly human." He fears for the life of his old friend Dr.
Hyde show his hatred of Dr. Jekyll? Hyde writes, in Jekyll's handwriting, "blasphemies" in Jekyll's books, burns his letters and destroys the portrait of his father.
What does Utterson tell Jekyll about his theory of Mr. Hyde's intentions concerning the will? That Hyde meant to murder Jekyll and take all him money. On his way out, Utterson runs into Poole, the butler, and asks him to describe the man who delivered the letter.
Jekyll's butler Poole visits Utterson one night after dinner. Deeply agitated, he says only that he believes there has been some “foul play” regarding Dr. Jekyll; he quickly brings Utterson to his master's residence.
Utterson spends much of the novel gathering evidence, in an informal fashion, about the Jekyll-Hyde relationship. All the evidence he collects points to the idea that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll, which would explain why Jekyll turns pale whenever Hyde is mentioned.
Within Chapter 3, Stevenson presents Dr Jekyll as a secretive character who is plagued by a fear of his dual nature being exposed. Within this chapter, Utterson repeatedly questions Dr Jekyll on his relationship with the feared Mr Hyde and we see the impact it has on Dr Jekyll's usually composed appearance.
Henry Jekyll is a tall middle aged man. He is well looking and a man of great status. On the other hand Mr. Hyde is a short younger man, he has a hunched back and is always said to be deformed but people don't know why he is like that.
Lanyon's and Jekyll's documents reveal that Jekyll had secretly developed a potion to allow him to separate the good and evil aspects of his personality. He was thereby able at will to change into his increasingly dominant evil counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Hyde is only seen to do two real acts of evil. He first tramples a small girl (after which she lives and he gives the family a retribution check) and he later kills an innocent elderly gentleman.
Summary — Chapter 4: “The Carew Murder Case” Hyde, encounter a polite, aged gentleman; when the gentleman offers Hyde a greeting, Hyde suddenly turns on him with a stick, beating him to death. The police find a letter addressed to Utterson on the dead body, and they consequently summon the lawyer.
Guest knows about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and is an expert on handwriting. So Utterson mentions the murder and Mr. Guest thinks it was an act of madness. Utterson takes this opportunity to show him the letter from Hyde to Jekyll. On seeing Hyde’s signature, Guest doesn’t think it shows madness, but it is odd.
He assures Utterson that Mr. Hyde is “safe” and will not be heard from anymore. Dr. Jekyll’s anxious manner worries Utterson. Jekyll admits that he is possession of a letter from Hyde, and he is unsure whether to show it to the police.
Utterson is satisfied by the letter, thinking that it makes clear the relationship between Hyde and Jekyll . The sickness and anxiety that Jekyll seems to suffer from in this scene is a visible sign of the mental struggle that he is hiding from Mr. Utterson.
Utterson is surprised and relieved when Jekyll says that he doesn't care what happens to Hyde anymore and that he would only keep the letter secret in order to save his own reputation. The letter tells Jekyll not to worry because he (Hyde) has found a means of escape.
Jekyll responds that he wants to give all responsibility for his affairs to Utterson, and that he doesn’t trust himself anymore. Utterson agrees to think about it. He has one last question. He wants to know if it was Hyde that dictated the terms of his will. Jekyll admits that it was.
He assumes that if the letter had not been received at the main door, it must have been written in the laboratory itself, which implies more threat to Dr. Jekyll. On the street, newspaper boys are selling the headline about Sir Carew, the murdered MP.
Jekyll admits that it was. Utterson knew it. He tells Jekyll that he has narrowly escaped death, but Jekyll seems to be more concerned that he has “learned a lesson”. Jekyll is involving Utterson as his lawyer and also his friend but what he is asking him to do goes beyond both of Utterson’s roles.
The story of how Enfield saw Hyde beat a child in the streets runs for two full pages without stopping, only breaking whenever Utterson interrupts him. In this way, Stevenson embeds the first person within a larger third person perspective.
Enfield’s speech about Hyde in chapter 1. Sevenson adds “what makes it worse” in parenthesis amidst Enfield’s raging about Hyde’s terrible behavior. It is framed as if Enfield were saying it to Utterson but in the choice of parenthesis denotes that Stevenson himself is speaking.
The way that Stevenson chooses to do this, however, breaks with traditions by combining the third and first person perspectives and directly interacting with the audience through the text. At the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to Mr. Utterson, the viewpoint character, through an external description.
It is a statement lacking sentimentality, a strait-forward explanation of facts. However Utterson feels about this fact is left for the reader to interpret based on their previous understanding of the character and , more importantly, how they might feel if they were put in the same position.
He is sure that Mr. Hyde has heinous deeds in his past, and Utterson resolves to protect Dr. Jekyll. He knows he must act quickly, because if Mr. Hyde has found out about the will, he is sure to aim to inherit the estate soon.
Hyde obliges, after a brief hesitation, and agrees that it is good that they have made each other’s acquaintance, as if Hyde has also been thinking about Jekyll’s affairs. He gives Utterson his address in the neighborhood of Soho.
According to him, Dr. Jekyll has become devilish and unscientific. A symbolic contrast is made of the story’s two doctors, as two sides of the scientific coin. Here Lanyon’s ruddy complexion and visible popularity with the public shows him as a traditional man of medicine.
The infamous, inexplicable deformity of Mr. Hyde now becomes connected with Dr. Jekyll. The mention of the doctor’s name seems to produce a visible change in the man, a kind of animal reaction, like an angry dog. Who controls who between the doctor and this criminal is unclear at this point. Active Themes.