Jekyll and Hyde

1. Jekyll and Hyde The Picture Book For Easy Access to the Story!

2. 1 The Story of The Door

3. Meet Mr Utterson! He is a very well-respected, serious but loveable man. I let my brother go to the devil in his own way In other words, he doesn’t like to interfere in other people’s lives

4. He enjoys nice long walks with his good friend Richard Enfield. On one of these walks, they come across an old, strange door.

5. The door reminds Enfield of something that happened to him recently and he decides to tell Utterson. How terribly interesting That reminds me of something This is his tale…..

6. One late night, Enfield witnessed a hideous looking man plough into a young girl, trample over her and leave her screaming. People are shocked and disgusted by the behaviour of the hideous man and they demand £100 compensation.

7. The hideous man takes them back to the strange door…. Goes in…. And returns with a cheque for £100!

8. Enfield is concerned. He sees the name and signature on the cheque and knows that it belongs to a different, well respected man. He assumes that the hideous man has either forged the signature or is blackmailing the owner of the signature.

9. Utterson loves a good mystery and is intrigued by the story. He wants to know the name of the hideous man. “I never saw a man I so disliked” “deformed” “extraordinary looking” Said Mr Enfield. His name is Mr Hyde

10. Mr Utterson is very alarmed by the tale and wonders how the hideous man opened the strange door. (We find out later that the reason he is so alarmed is because the name Hyde means something to him!) Enfield tells him: “The fellow had a key.”

11. 2 Search for Mr Hyde

12. Mr Utterson is a lawyer and he deals with people’s wills. That evening, he gets out a will that he has overseen for a Mr Henry Jekyll. There is something very strange about the will…

13. In the case of Dr Jekyll’s “disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months”….. Edward Hyde should be legally allowed to “step into Dr jekyll’s shoes” have all his money and possessions…. In effect – live Jekyll’s life!

14. When he wrote the will for Jekyll, Utterson was immediately worried that this Edward Hyde was somehow taking advantage over his good friend Henry Jekyll. Now he knows that Mr Hyde is also a horrible man who is using Jekyll’s money, he is even more alarmed.

15. Utterson goes to visit Dr Lanyon who is also an old friend of Henry Jekyll. Lanyon was a “hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman”

16. I’m afraid not. Although we both love science, he became “too fanciful for me”. His scientific experiments are “unscientific balderdash” in my opinion! Utterson asks Lanyon if Jekyll has ever mentioned someone called Hyde to him. So Utterson goes home, none the wiser.

17. Utterson has terrible dreams that night, including dreams of the supernatural and the horrid Hyde type figure. He is determined to meet Mr Edward Hyde. By the way….Mr Utterson is a very practical and rational man who in no way believes in the supernatural. It is probably unlike him to have dreams like this.

18. “If he be Mr Hyde”………”I shall be Mr Seek.” Finally…….Utterson comes across Hyde, asks to see his face and finds him to be hideous. “The man seems hardly human” They have a brief conversation and Hyde gives Utterson a card with his address on. Some place in Soho.

19. Utterson goes straight to Dr Jekyll’s house but his servant, Poole tells Utterson that Jekyll is not at home. It turns out that the strange door is actually at the back of Jekyll’s own house. London was such a maze of streets, that Utterson hadn’t even realised they were connected. Are you aware that Edward Hyde has been using your back door? Yes indeed, he is often here. Mr Jekyll says it is allowed.

20. 3 Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease

21. Two weeks later, Dr Jekyll has a dinner party. Utterson is invited. Jekyll is merry and his dinners are always pleasant. Utterson stays back when everyone has gone to speak with Jekyll.

22. Jekyll is not happy to be asked about Hyde and tells Utterson to drop the subject. He also assures Utterson that: “The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde” Of course, like Utterson, the reader wonders what this can possibly mean.

23. If anything should happen to me, please promise me that you will make sure that Hyde’s rights are looked after. Before Utterson leaves, Jekyll tells him that Hyde is very important to him. I cannot pretend to like Hyde SIGH “I promise.”

24. 4 The Carew Murder Case

25. Nearly a year later, one foggy October night, a maid is looking from her window at the moonlit night. She is horrified at what she witnesses down below in the street.

26. A nice older man is walking along the street, when another, smaller man holding a cane, who she recognises as Edward Hyde, stops him. For no reason, Hyde attacks the older man with a heavy cane until he falls on the floor. He then stamps on him, breaking his bones and leaves the man DEAD.

27. The maid calls the police who find the dead body. On the body, they find no form of identification, only a purse, gold watch and a sealed, stamped envelope addressed to……. Mr Utterson. So the police visit Utterson to tell him of the murder. He goes with them and identifies the body as…… Sir Danvers Carew.

28. The police tell Utterson that Hyde committed the murder. They show him a broken cane that they found next to the body. Utterson immediately recognises it as a cane that he had given to Jekyll some years before. I know where this Hyde lives. I will take you there.

29. When they arrive at the address in Soho, an old woman with an evil face opens the door and tells them that Mr Hyde is not home. When Utterson and the police say that they want to see his rooms anyway, she seems to be quite happy that he might be in trouble.

30. The room looks as if it has been left in a hurry. There are clothes all over the floor. Fresh ashes in the fire show that someone has burned documents and papers. They then find the other half of the broken cane. Using the details on the cheque book, they are able to find out that Hyde has a fair amount of money. From the embers, the inspector finds the end of a green cheque book.

31. 5 Incident of The Letter

32. Utterson visits Jekyll and they sit in his cabinet (a small room above his laboratory at the end of his garden – this is the building that the strange door goes in to). Are you hiding Mr Hyde? We know he killed Carew. Jekyll looks “deadly sick” “I will never set eyes on him again” “I am done with him in this world” “mark my words, he will never more be heard of.”

33. Jekyll says that he has received a letter from Hyde and is not sure whether to give it to the police. He says it was delivered by hand and he has destroyed the envelope. He asks Utterson to look at it. The letter tells Jekyll not to fear for his safety as he has a sure and safe means of escape. Edward Hyde

34. Utterson had feared that Jekyll may be involved in Hyde’s activities and he asks Jekyll whether it was Hyde’s idea to put in the will that: In case Jekyll disappears, Hyde will step into his shoes. Jekyll tells him that this was Hyde’s idea. This convinces Utterson that Hyde’s plan all along was to murder Jekyll and keep his wealth.

35. When leaving Jekyll’s house, Utterson asks Poole whether someone delivered a letter today. Poole tells him that nothing has been delivered by hand. Is Jekyll lying about how he got the letter?

36. Back at his own house, Utterson asks his clerk, Mr Guest to have a look at the letter. Mr Guest compares the signature on Hyde’s letter with the signature of Mr Jekyll on an invitation he has sent to Utterson for dinner. Edward HydeHenry Jekyll Mr Guest is convinced that the signatures are written by the same person! Utterson is shocked and immediately believes that Jekyll has forged the signature of a murderer.

37. 6 Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon

38. Utterson calls at Jekyll’s house several times but Poole tells him that he is not seeing anyone. Time runs on. Jekyll comes out of his seclusion and starts to entertain again. However this does not last long. So Utterson decides to visit Dr Lanyon, to see if he knows what is going on with Jekyll. Sorry Sir, Dr Jekyll does not wish to see anyone.

39. The jolly, healthy chap? Remember Dr Lanyon from earlier on? Well not any more! “He had his death warrant” written on his face. He looked older, thinner, paler, balder. I have had a terrible shock.

40. I do not wish to see or hear from Dr Jekyll When Utterson asks him about Jekyll….. Lanyon says he will speak no more about him but that once he (Lanyon) has died, Utterson will find out the truth.

41. When he gets home, Utterson immediately writes a letter to Jekyll about Lanyon. The next day he gets a reply from Jekyll….. …..Lanyon is not to blame for our falling out but I will never meet with him again. I intend to lead a life of seclusion from now on. You must leave me alone. I have brought my own suffering onto myself……..

42. In less than a fortnight from this point, Dr Lanyon dies. After the funeral, Utterson finds a letter on his desk. The envelope says: “PRIVATE: For the hands of J. G. Utterson ALONE” (and if he dies before me, then this must be destroyed) Inside the envelope is another sealed envelope. This one says: “Not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll” There’s that odd word again…….. “disappearance”

43. Concerned for his friend, Utterson continues to call on Jekyll. Each time, Poole tells him that he will see nobody. By this stage, Jekyll is shutting himself away in his laboratory and even the servants barely see him.

44. 7 Incident at the Window

45. One Sunday, Utterson is on one of his walks with Mr Enfield, when they find themselves at the old door. They notice a face at one of the windows above the door. It is Jekyll. He looks terrible. “I am very low Utterson…..very low. It will not last long, thank God”

46. Jekyll says that he is not up to walking with the men but that they could chat with him through the window for a while. BUT……..before they get a chance to talk…. There came upon Jekyll…. “an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below”

47. Jekyll slams the window shut and whatever they see leaves Utterson and Enfield “pale” and with “horror in his eyes” “God forgive us! God forgive us!”

48. 8 The Last Night

49. I can’t take it any more. I am so worried about Dr Jekyll. I think there has been foul play. Please will you come and see for yourself Mr Utterson? One evening, Utterson is enjoying his dinner by the fire when he gets a visit from Jekyll’s servant – Poole. Mr Utterson immediately grabs his coat and goes with Poole back to Jekyll’s house.

50. It is a wild, cold night in March and when Utterson arrives at Jekyll’s house, the servants are almost hysterical with worry and fear. Poole leads Utterson down the garden to the laboratory. Poole knocks on the door, telling Jekyll that Utterson is here to see him. “Tell him I cannot see anyone.” A voice from inside said…..