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Jekyll and Hyde
The Picture Book
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1
The Story of The Door
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
He enjoys nice long walks with his good friend
Richard Enfield.
On one of these
walks, they come
across an old, strange
door.
The door reminds Enfield of something that
happened to him recently and he decides to tell
Utterson.
That
reminds me
of
something
How terribly
interesting
This is his
tale…..
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.
The hideous man takes them back to the strange
door….
Goes in….
And returns with a cheque for £100!
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.
Utterson loves a good mystery and is intrigued
by the story. He wants to know the name of the
hideous man.
His name is Mr
Hyde
“I never saw a
man I so disliked”
“deformed”
“extraordinary
looking”
Said Mr Enfield.
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.”
2
Search for Mr Hyde
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…
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!
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.
Utterson goes to visit Dr Lanyon who is also an old
friend of Henry Jekyll.
Lanyon was a “hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced
gentleman”
Utterson asks Lanyon if Jekyll has ever
mentioned someone called Hyde to him.
I’m afraid not. Although we
both love science, he
became “too fanciful for
me”. His scientific
experiments are
“unscientific balderdash” in
my opinion!
So Utterson goes home, none the wiser.
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.
“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.
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.
3
Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease
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.
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.
Before Utterson leaves, Jekyll tells him that Hyde
is very important to him.
If anything should
happen to me, please
promise me that you will
make sure that Hyde’s
rights are looked after.
I cannot pretend to like
Hyde
SIGH
“I promise.”
4
The Carew Murder Case
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From the
embers, the
inspector
finds the end
of a green
cheque book.
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.
5
Incident of The Letter
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.”
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.
Edward Hyde
The letter tells Jekyll not to fear for his safety as he
has a sure and safe means of escape.
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.
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?
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 Hyde
Henry 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.
6
Remarkable Incident
of Dr Lanyon
Time runs on. Jekyll comes out of his seclusion and
starts to entertain again. However this does not
last long.
Utterson calls at Jekyll’s
house several times but
Poole tells him that he is not
seeing anyone.
Sorry Sir, Dr Jekyll does not
wish to see anyone.
So Utterson decides to visit Dr Lanyon, to see if he
knows what is going on with Jekyll.
Remember Dr Lanyon from earlier on?
The jolly, healthy chap?
Well not any more!
I have
had a
terrible
shock.
“He had his death warrant” written on his face.
He looked older, thinner, paler, balder.
When Utterson asks him about Jekyll…..
I do not wish to see or hear
from Dr Jekyll
Lanyon says he will speak no more about him
but that once he (Lanyon) has died, Utterson will
find out the truth.
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……..
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”
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.
7
Incident at the Window
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”
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”
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!”
8
The Last Night
One evening, Utterson is enjoying his dinner by
the fire when he gets a visit from Jekyll’s servant
– Poole.
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?
Mr Utterson immediately grabs his coat and
goes with Poole back to Jekyll’s house.
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
A voice from
anyone.”
inside said…..
Poole is convinced that it is not Jekyll’s voice
that they hear but another man’s.
He explains that Jekyll has not come out of the
room. The last time he heard Jekyll’s real voice
was eight day’s earlier, when he heard him cry in
God’s name.
Utterson believes that the man in the room has
murdered Jekyll but for some reason is staying in
the laboratory.
The man in the room has been leaving messages
outside for Poole to take to the chemist to get a
particular type of medicine.
Each time he gets it for him, another note is left
later saying that Poole must return to the chemist
to tell them that the medicine is not pure and that
they must send more.
Poole shows Utterson one of the notes. They
both agree that it appears to be written in Dr
Henry Jekyll
Jekyll’s handwriting.
It may be Dr Jekyll’s writing but I
have seen the man in that room
and he looked nothing like Jekyll.
There will be a perfectly logical
explanation. Jekyll must be having a
nervous episode. He is not in his right
mind. This would explain his desperate
need for medicine. His emotion will
explain why his face looks different and
his voice sounds different.
If that is the case, they how do you explain the
fact that the man was several inches shorter
than Jekyll?! I assure you, it was not Jekyll!
Utterson and Poole both believe that the man
inside the laboratory is Hyde.
They listen at the door and hear footsteps of a
man pacing. Utterson agrees that they do not
sound like Jekyll’s steps.
They decide to use an axe to break the door
down.
Jekyll, I demand to see you!
Utterson, for God’s sake have mercy!
That’s not
Jekyll’s voice,
it is Hyde’s.
Down with
the door
Poole!
The men break the door down
with an axe. Inside, they find
the twitching, dying body of
Edward Hyde. It is clear that
he is a “self-destroyer” – in
other words – he has
committed suicide!
The men search the rooms in the laboratory for
Dr Jekyll. They cannot find him anywhere. They
find:
The key to the old door – it has been stamped
on and no longer works. This means that
nobody could have left the laboratory via the
old door.
Lots of piles of the medicine Poole has been
fetching from the chemist.
On the desk, they find a large envelope. Inside
are several enclosures.
• A Will – the same as the one Utterson already
has a copy of. However, instead of Edward
Hyde getting everything in case of Jekyll’s
death or disappearance – it now says that Mr
Utterson will get everything.
• There is also a letter from Jekyll to Utterson
dated the same day. Utterson believes
therefore that Jekyll may still be nearby –or
indeed may have murdered Hyde.
The letter:
My dear Utterson,
When you read this, I will have disappeared. I am
not sure how this will happen but I am convinced
that it will happen soon. You must read the letter
that Lanyon has already given you and if you wish
to know more, then read my confession.
Your unworthy and unhappy friend
Henry Jekyll
The last thing in the envelope is a large sealed
packet.
Utterson puts it in his pocket
and tells Poole that he will
return home to read Lanyon’s
letter (narrative) and the new
document from Jekyll.
The last two chapters of the novel are: Lanyon’s
narrative and then Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement
of the Case.
In these two chapters/documents,
along with Utterson, we finally find out
the mystery of Henry Jekyll…………
9
Dr Lanyon’s Narrative
The events in this chapter happened to Dr
Lanyon BEFORE he became ill and died. It is like
a flashback.
Happy, healthy Dr Lanyon receives a letter one
evening from Dr Jekyll. He is surprised because
it is not like Jekyll to communicate with him in
such a formal way.
Here is a summary of the letter:
My dear Lanyon,
I know we differ in our scientific beliefs, however, I know I can
trust you to help me now. You must come directly to my house.
Poole will meet you with a locksmith, who will get you into my
cabinet, above my laboratory.
You must break the lock of my drawers and take the whole fourth
drawer – which is full of medicines and powders. You must take
the drawer back to your house. A man will come to your house
and he will ask for the drawer. You must give it to him.
This is all I ask
Your friend
H,J
Lanyon believes that Jekyll must have gone mad
to send such a letter but decides to carry out his
wishes.
The clock strikes
midnight and a short,
hideous man who
appears to be wearing
clothes that are much
too big for him, arrives
at Lanyon’s house.
The man seizes the drawer and its contents with
a great sob of relief which frightens Dr Lanyon.
The man mixes some of the powder with a
potion in a glass and asks Lanyon……
It is up to you Lanyon whether
you tell me to stay here and
see what happens, or whether
you let me leave your house
and drink this mixture away
from you? The choice is yours.
Lanyon’s curiosity gets the better of him and he
says that he will watch. The man warns Lanyon
that he must tell no-one what he is about to
witness.
Behold!
Lanyon watches as the man reels and staggers and gasps
as his face and body change in front of his eyes.
Finally…….there in front of Lanyon’s horrified eyes,
stands…..
Dr Henry Jekyll
Dr Jekyll proceeds to explain everything to Lanyon.
Lanyon is shaken to the core. He
is horrified. He cannot bring
himself to write down exactly
what he is told but at the end of
his letter to Utterson, Lanyon
says…..
The man who arrived at my house was
Edward Hyde but the man who left it, was
Henry Jekyll.
It is the shock of this event that led to Lanyon’s
premature death.
10
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the
Case
This chapter is also like a flashback. Dr Jekyll has
written everything down so that Utterson will
understand what happened to him, to Mr Hyde
and to Dr Lanyon.
Dr Jekyll wrote this statement AFTER Dr Lanyon
witnessed the change.
Jekyll explains that while the world has always
seen him as a respectable, hard-working man,
his true nature was to have FUN and behave in a
way that would not have been considered so
respectable in Victorian society.
Jekyll realises that man often has two sides…..
A Good side
and
A Bad side
Sometimes, we have to keep one side hidden
and if we do, it can make us feel down as we
can’t let those feelings out.
For many years Dr Jekyll dreamt of finding a way
of separating his good, moral self from his more
immoral self.
He then began to put his
dreams into reality by
experimenting with
different chemicals. He
knew that to take such a
potion could be very risky
and even kill him.
However, he was
desperate to try!
He explains that late one night, he decided to
drink the potion.
The pain was incredible as he felt his body
change.
Ouch!
When the pain finally stopped, Jekyll realised
that he had shrunk in height, his face had
changed and he FELT much more wicked. He
was to name this new self: Edward Hyde.
Jekyll could see that his new face and body were
hideous but he immediately liked who he had
become…….he was, after all part of himself.
He explains that the reason everyone who sees
Hyde is immediately repulsed, is because he is
made up of only evil and we are not used to seeing
this.
Jekyll immediately tried the antidote and was
delighted that he turned straight back to Dr
Jekyll.
From that point, Jekyll would turn into
Hyde whenever he felt the need to “let
off steam” and go out to more seedy
places and mix with more seedy
people. He could behave however he
liked and nobody would ever blame Dr
Jekyll.
Jekyll covered his tracks by doing the following:
• Renting a home in Soho for Hyde
• Telling Poole that he must allow a man called
Hyde to come and go from Jekyll’s house
whenever he wishes – no questions asked.
• He drew up a will that meant should anything
happen to Henry Jekyll, he could still continue
to live his life – but as Edward Hyde.
As time passed, Jekyll realised that Hyde’s
behaviour was becoming more and more
wicked. Jekyll became particularly alarmed
when Hyde viciously trampled on a young girl –
remember chapter one?
Jekyll started to do whatever he could to undo
the damage caused by Edward Hyde.
The next part of Jekyll’s confession happened two
months BEFORE the murder of Danvers Carew………
He had been out for the night as Hyde. He awoke
the next day in bed, feeling strange sensations. He
looked at his hand, expecting to see Jekyll’s hand
but instead, sees Hyde’s.
Jekyll is terrified. He
went to bed as Henry
Jekyll, took no potion,
yet woke up as
Edward Hyde!
He managed to get back to his cabinet –
remember he had told his servants to allow
Hyde to come and go from the house, so they do
not question the strange man’s presence.
He took the potion and turned back to Jekyll.
When he first started to transform himself, Jekyll
found that it was harder to become Edward
Hyde.
However, it seemed now to be harder and
harder to get rid of Hyde and turn back to Jekyll.
He was having to use more and more of the
potion to turn back to Jekyll.
He was beginning to feel as if Hyde was taking
over his personality.
Jekyll realised that he had to choose…..
Be Jekyll, well respected and moral but not be
able to have an outlet for his more wild side.
OR
Be Hyde and have no friends and be despised.
HE DECIDES TO BE JEKYLL ONLY.
Jekyll managed to keep this up for two months.
However, he then gave in to the urge to become
Hyde again.
Perhaps because he had kept Hyde locked in for
two months, he came back worse than before.
“My devil had been long caged, he came out
roaring.”
It was this night that he came
across Sir Danvers Carew and
beat him to death – such was
his need to let out all his wild,
evil side.
When he realised what he had done, he rushed
back to the house in Soho to destroy his papers
and the cheque book.
He then returned to his own house, locked the
strange old door to the laboratory from the
INSIDE and broke the key with his foot, so that
he could not leave again as HYDE.
He then made a greater effort to just be Henry
Jekyll. It was at this point that he had his dinner
party. However, he was still torn inside by his
two sided nature.
One sunny day, Dr Jekyll was sitting on a bench
in a park. Suddenly, he felt nauseous and his
body was full of pain. He realised on looking
down, that he had involuntarily turned into
Edward Hyde.
He was terrified – remember – the
police are looking for Edward Hyde. He
needed to get to his potions in his
cabinet. However, he had broken the
key and if he tried to use his front door
as Hyde, his servants would hand him
over to the police.
As Hyde, he took himself to a hotel where he
decided to write a letter to Lanyon, asking for
his help.
You may be wondering why Hyde would want to
turn back to Jekyll, after all, he seemed to have
been taking over. Well, Hyde, knew that if he
was caught by the police, his time would be
over, so it is in his interests to help Jekyll to help
him to safety with the potion.
So after Dr Lanyon’s help – Edward Hyde turns
back into Dr Jekyll in front of him. Seeing his
friend’s horror truly upsets Dr Jekyll.
His greatest fear is no longer the gallows but
becoming Edward Hyde forever.
The next morning, Jekyll again, turns involuntarily
into Hyde. It takes a double dose of the medicine
to turn him back. However, six hours later, he
changes to Hyde again.
This continued over the next few
days. The only way he could stay
as Jekyll was to keep having
more and more medicine. If he
ever fell asleep, he would always
wake as Hyde.
It was during this time that Utterson and Enfield
happened upon him at his window. (Chapter 7 –
Incident at the Window.)
Jekyll explains that he is now writing the end of his
statement having taken the last dose of his potion.
He is writing it in a hurry because he knows that
Henry Jekyll will not be around much longer, as he
is unable to find the correct ingredients to make the
potion anymore.
He says that he does not know what will happen to
Hyde when he is discovered and he no longer cares.
“I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to en end.”
The reader now understands that it was Edward
Hyde who decided to end his life. He probably
took a poison just before Utterson and Poole
axed the door to the laboratory down.
Hyde was possibly too much of a coward to
face the gallows for murder.
So all our questions have been answered by the end
of the last two chapters. We can only guess how
horrified the cynical, rational Utterson is once he
has read the narratives.
He will finally have to face up to
the fact that…..
There are some things in life that cannot be
explained by logic!