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Dr. Jekyll becomes more social with everyone and holds a party, but then a week goes by and he wants to see no one which disturbs Utterson. Utterson goes to Lanyon’s to ask about Jekyll and finds Lanyon doesn’t have long to live which he gives Utterson a note and tells him not to read it until Jekyll is dead. Jekyll at the window of his lab spots Utterson and Enfield and has a conversation with him slamming the window shut and leaving their sight immediately. Mr. Poole, Jekyll’s butler, brings Utterson to the house because he feels something is wrong. They break into the laboratory and find Hyde on the ground committed suicide. Utterson finds a package with three things left from Dr. Jekyll, first a will, second a letter telling him to read Lanyon’s note and a sealed package. Utterson reads the letter which has information on how he witnessed Mr. Hyde take a potion and transform into Dr. Jekyll. The letter written by Jekyll shared with Utterson Jekyll’s whole experiment and everything he did as turning into Hyde and trying to fix his problems. He shared in the letter that Hyde was becoming to strong and would transform without the potion and he himself was becoming weak and running out of potion. This ended with him writing the letter and with Mr. Utterson figuring everything out like Dr. Jekyll said he would when there was no longer a Dr. Jekyll.
 * The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde**
 * by Robert Stevenson**
 * 1.** **Plot Overview:** Mr. Utterson takes time out of his schedule every so often to take long vigorous walks with Mr. Enfield. This time as they walked Enfield told Utterson that he remembers this event that happened where an ugly man named Mr. Hyde knocked over this young girl and the community established a force against him which deceased with a bribe of money. Utterson starts working on the mystery and goes to talk to Dr. Lanyon about Dr. Jekyll and this Mr. Hyde when Lanyon knows nothing about Hyde and hardly speaks to Jekyll anymore. Utterson and Hyde meet on the streets and Utterson asks question about Hyde and sees a connection between Hyde and Jekyll and later confronts Jekyll about the situation which he finds amusing. A year later Hyde goes out in the middle of the night and kills a man with the name of Sir Carew. Utterson knows it is Hyde and confronts Dr. Jekyll about it when he told Utterson that Hyde has left and is not returning at all and gives Utterson the letter Hyde wrote.
 * 2.** **Character List:**
 * Dr. Henry Jekyll ** ~ He is a well known doctor across the area and friends with many of those people. Jekyll is a respectable doctor with a good reputation through his town and is known for participating in many charitable acts of kindness. He has a continually experiment on his hands where he tries to pull the darkness or evil side out of himself to form another character.
 * Mr. Edward Hyde ~ ** Mr. Hyde is taken by the other people on the world as a distorted and ugly man who can act bitter and fierce. This man is the dark side of Dr. Henry Jekyll who shouldn’t belong in this world but came about by using a potion.
 * Mr. Gabriel John Utterson ** ~ He is a very smart lawyer who gets involved with the bizarre case of Jekyll/Hyde. His intriguing thought process helps him figure out what is going on in this story and his friendliness gives him an edge with everyone helping him retrieve fcts about this case.
 * 3. **** Quotes~ **
 * A. **** “For there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll!” (119, Stevenson). ** This quote is a short piece from the note written by Dr. Lanyon stating what Dr. Jekyll wrote to him and what he did for Jekyll. It lets Utterson know that Lanyon saw Mr. Hyde take a potion created by Jekyll and change forms back into Dr. Jekyll right before his own eyes.
 * B. **** “My dear Utterson,-When this shall fall into your hands… Your unworthy and unhappy friend, HENRY JEKYLL,” (102-103, Stevenson). ** This quote explains what Utterson got out of Dr. Jekyll’s death and the things he received from Jekyll. It also has instructions for him to follow in order to find out everything Jekyll was up too and why Mr. Hyde was the one that was dead on the laboratory floor.
 * C. **** “That is just what I was about to venture to propose… and there was an answering horror in their eyes,” (77, Stevenson). ** This quote illustrates how good of a reputation Jekyll has in the community. It also explains why Jekyll has been inside because he is afraid of not having potion to change him back into normal if the Mr. Hyde side breaks out again. He needs to fight it by staying independent and not show anyone else what has been going on.
 * 4. **** Themes and Symbols **
 * A. ** The theme good versus evil is explains through the book __The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde__. It is demonstrated in the way that Dr. Jekyll is the good and Mr. Hyde is the evil since he comes from Dr. Jekyll and he wanted to take the evil from him to make him all good. This example explains the two characters because Dr. Jekyll wanted to remove the evil from him and place it in a different form which became Mr. Hyde. It goes to show one that removing the evil isn’t always the best thing you can do but to live without being evil is the better way to live. It demonstrates that even if you put out evil sometimes it could always be better than giving off evil all the time.
 * B. ** Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde go with the theme of reputation for different reasons. Dr. Jekyll had a good reputation for working with charity and being a doctor that is an expert in their field. He was outgoing and participated in events with other people in the community and his friends in Mr. Utterson and Dr. Lanyon. ON the other hand there was Mr. Hyde who did make eye contact with others, was always looking shady, and was ugly and distorted. He had a bad reputation because people of the community talked how he killed a girl and Sir Carew. Through the difference many can see that reputation is important and can bright one’s life or ruin it from other people’s perspective.
 * C. ** One big symbol in this novel would probably be Dr. Jekyll’s house and laboratory. This is explained for different reasons because it is where a lot of this novel takes place because it is where Dr. Jekyll lives and does his work when changing into Mr. Hyde. It is the place where Mr. Utterson follows Mr. Hyde to and where he finally discovers the mystery of who Mr. Hyde was and what Dr. Jekyll was working on for many years before. It all depends on how many look at the situation but for the most part Dr. Jekyll’s house is the place where he turned into Hyde and vice versa. It explains what Jekyll has been working on and everything else revolves around the house.