robert louis stevenson doctor jekyll mister hyde

The shock of the sight prompted Lanyon’s decline which we’ve already witnessed, culminating in his death.Īs Jekyll had to keep increasing the dose of serum to prevent himself from turning into Hyde, the stock of serum began to run out. In Lanyon’s presence, Hyde mixed the chemicals and then drank the serum, turning back into Jekyll before Lanyon’s very eyes.

Horrified by what Hyde had done, Jekyll tried harder to stop the transformations from occurring, but once again, he transformed into Hyde involuntarily.įar from his laboratory and so unable to do anything about it, and being hounded by the police, he wrote to Lanyon in Jekyll’s handwriting, asking Lanyon to bring him chemicals from his laboratory. Hyde was so furious at having been locked away for so long, went on his rampage and killed the MP, Danvers Carew. However, during a moment of weakness, he relapsed, and took the serum, unleashing Hyde. Like an addict, Jekyll resolved to stop transforming himself into Mr Hyde. Initially, to keep Hyde in check, Jekyll controlled the transformations using the serum, but one night in August, he became Hyde involuntarily in his sleep and knew things had got out of hand. He found a way to transform himself into another, unrecognisable figure, using a special tincture he prepared in his laboratory, enabling him to indulge his vices without fear of detection. Jekyll’s letter then explains that he had developed a taste for certain vices, and feared that he would be found out, and his reputation as a doctor ruined. Lanyon’s letter informs Utterson that his mental and physical decline resulted from the shock of seeing Hyde drink a serum and turn into Jekyll. The final two chapters are letters: the first from Dr Lanyon, the last from Dr Jekyll himself. They find a letter Jekyll wrote to Utterson. They break into the laboratory, where they find the still twitching body of Mr Hyde, wearing Jekyll’s clothes, dead from apparent suicide. Utterson and Poole go to Dr Jekyll’s house, but Jekyll refuses to open up and see them. Poole, visits Utterson and says Jekyll has secluded himself in his laboratory. ‘The Last Night’ is the final chapter narrated by the third-person narrator. But Jekyll’s face is suddenly overcome with a look of abject terror, and the doctor slams the window and disappears indoors. ‘Incident at the Window’ is a short chapter in which Utterson, while out for one of his Sunday walks with Enfield, starts up a conversation with Dr Jekyll at the window of his laboratory.

Robert louis stevenson doctor jekyll mister hyde