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ANNOTATIONS
I've heard about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before. It's about a
werewolf-like scenario, I think, where they are the same person but Mr
Hyde is like a monster or something. Dr Jekyll is a medical doctor, I
think, but I don't know much else.
Opening sentence:
"Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged coun-tenance, that was
never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse;
backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow
lovable."
Setting: London, Physician-class
CHAPTER ONE (Story of the Door)
What does this title mean?
Kindly but reserved man. (!Utterson, lawyer)
Is he reserved deliberately, and why does this reservation extend to a
lack of direct spoken kindliness?
It appears he is supportive, but insufficiently discerning, or maybe he
is genuine and just doesn't work too hard in manipulating socially
("modest").
Richard Enfield (I've heard that name before) is his friend, and appears
to be similarly disinclined.
There is a dingy building in a bright street of a dingy neighborhood.
A "damned Juggernaut" runs over a small girl in an empty street. But how
is it related? Is this Dr Jekyll? "one look, so ugly?" No, the doctor is
Jekyll, and he murderously hates [got to be a better word] the man who
lives in the terrible, uninviting building of the rich man (readily has
100 pounds and 10 pounds in gold) who was also famous or paying with a
famous person's cheque. -- Enfield
Oh wait this isn't the same door, maybe, but this guy doesn't ask
questions because he fears negative outcomes. (huh, maybe part of the
same ungregariousness they share, because Utterson agrees).
So Hyde is the man who walked over the child, and he is inexplicable.
CHAPTER TWO (Search for Mr Hyde)
Jekyll leaves all his possessions to Hyde in case of his own
disappearance.
"Such unscientific balderdash would have estranged Damon and Pythias"
- Doctor Landon
Jekyll had become "too fanciful"
Utterson seeks Mr Hyde and meets him.
Why does he put everyone at unease?
He is pale, dwarfish but without clear malformity.
And he has offputting mannerisms, but that's not enough for loathing.
It does appear to be supernatural.
This feels like cosmic horror (even though it pretty clearly isn't thus
far).
"He [Hyde] mostly comes and goes by the laboratory." and never stays for
dinner.
Utterson worries for Jekyll's welfare, but this worry is motivated by
hatred for Hyde.
CHAPTER THREE (Dr Jekyll was quite at ease)
Utterson's dry, ungay manner is impressed.
Jekyll calls it a private matter where he is free (uncoerced) by Hyde,
but he is merely "interested."
And Jekyll, when interrogated by Utterson, dismisses it as private.
Lanyon and Jekyll are sort of rivals, but Jekyll claims to like Lanyon
as a person despite Lanyon criticizing Jekyll's work.
Note: I'm pretty sure they're the same person from prior knowledge, so
each telling the other everything (like "I didn't think you would lie")
is in line with this.
CHAPTER FOUR (The Carew Murder Case)
Hyde kills some man with Jekyll's cane, and the police get involved.
Utterson comes forward with evidence after high-profile police
investigation starts, and Hyde has abandoned his house, claiming to only
leave for one hour, but his quarters are ransacked and pocketbook
burned.
His house is occupied by an "evil" but not disqueting old woman.
CHAPTER FIVE (Incident of the Letter)
"I have grounds for certainty that I cannot share with any one."
I'm thinking Frankenstein's monster situation.
Oh! It's an MP who's been murdered.
And now Jekyll is worried about scandal and is "done with" Hyde.
According to Mr Guest (handwriting analyst and Utterson's confidante),
the letter has been forged by Jekyll because the handwriting is similar.
Other peculiar things: Jekyll's servant hadn't received any mail, and
Hyde's letter had been in the laboratory (an old dissecting chamber).
CHAPTER SIX (Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon)
Dr Jekyll moves past the controversy and becomes his old self, a good
party host, entertainer, benefactor (charity, religion).
Supposedly falls ill, so Utterson visits Dr Lanyon who is sick with
something (matter of weeks he says), whom never wants to see Jekyll
again.
Dr Lanyon dies a week later and funeral happens.
Utterson has a letter from Lanyon to open in case of death or
disappearance of Jekyll.
Jekyll continues to be a recluse and spends more and more time in
laboratory.
CHAPTER SEVEN (Incident at the Window)
Oops, didn't realize this but probably should have: the ominous door is
a back entrance to Dr Jekyll's house.
They talk to him, but Jekyll is "very low," and smiles but then gives a
look of "abject terror and despair."
CHAPTER EIGHT (The Last Night)
Dr Jekyll needs drugs to cure himself of something.
All his staff are worried, especially Poole.
He has become irritable and inscrutable, demanding raw materials from
chemists to make a drug, and complains they are not pure.
He is a recluse, so the demands are in form of paper, and he remains all
day in his chamber.
Actually, he refuses to be seen because he is a horrible sight or
something.
He wears a mask even to surreptitiously search for something.
Jekyll has become dwarven despite his original high stature
(It's Hyde, and Poole thinks it's some sort of creature)
They successfully break into the cabinet and find Hyde twitching on the
ground.
Then they search for Jekyll's body or evidence.
They find evidence of experiment, the drug that Poole brought him from
the chemist, assorted in various cups.
And a final will and testament, a personal letter, and a third
enclosure.
The will declares Utterson Jekyll's recipient, the personal letter
declaring the end is near and speaking of Lanyon's recounting of the
tale as well as his own uncounting.
Calls himself "unworthy and unhappy."
CHAPTER NINE (Dr. Lanyon's Narrative)
Dr Jekyll gives Lanyon a note which is written very gravely, asking him
to fetch one of Jekyll's own drawers of material.
When Hyde shows up at Lanyon's door as expected (because Hyde = Jekyll,
but this isn't precisely revealed yet), Lanyon is disgusted but gives
him the drawer.
Hyde makes a medical potion which goes through several phase changes,
which he then drinks and becomes Jekyll again.
Lanyon is deeply disturbed and his understanding of science is shaken
(because this is "transcendental", i.e. magical).
CHAPTER TEN (Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case)
Jekyll is disturbed by the "duality of man" and uses medicine to split
his two personalities into distinct entities.
Hyde is what Jekyll transforms into after taking a potion that he
concocted, becoming a being of "pure evil"---which is why he is so
abhorrent.
WORDS
Coquetry - playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
Emuluous - rivalrous
Catholicity - universality
Sawbones - MD/surgeon
Farrago - Odds and ends
Hansom - Two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
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