Jekyll and Hyde Plot Summary

^^Chapters One to Three- the mysterious Mr Hyde^^

Utterson and Enfield walk past a neglected building which reminds Enfield of a crime in which a man named Hyde trampled a young girl
Enfield explains that he put pressure on Hyde to pay for his crime. Hyde went into the building and came out with a cheque signed by Dr Henry Jekyll
Utterson is concerned by Jekyll’s will, which leaves everything to Hyde. He visits Lanyon and discovers that he and Jekyll have fallen out
Utterson meets Hyde and really dislikes him. It turns out that the building Hyde went into when Enfield saw him is the laboratory at Jekyll’s home. Utterson concludes that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll

^^Chapters four to five-the disappearance of Mr Hyde^^

A year later, a maid witnesses the violent murder of Sir Danvers Crew by Hyde. Utterson takes the police to Hyde’s home in Soho where they find the murder weapon. Hyde is nowhere to be found
Utterson goes to see Jekyll, who looks very ill. Jekyll claims that he’ll never see Hyde again and shows Utterson a letter from Hyde which backs this up
However, Utterson is concerned when Poole tells him that no letters had been delivered to the house that morning
Later, Utterson shows Guest the letter, who points out that similarity between the handwriting of Jekyll and Hyde

^^Chapters six to eight-Jekyll is in trouble^^

There’s still no sign of Hyde, and Jekyll becomes more like his old self. But a few months later he hides himself away from his friends again
Utterson visits Lanyon, who’s very ill. Lanyon refuses to talk about Jekyll. He says he’s had a terrible shock and expects to die soon
Jekyll writes to Utterson to say that he can’t see his friends any more. Lanyon dies and leaves Utterson a letter to be read after Jekyll’s death or disappearance
Utterson and Enfield walk past Jekyll’s house and see Jekyll sitting in the window. They invite him out for a walk, but a sudden look of terror comes across his face and he quickly shuts the window
Poole comes to Utterson’s house because he’s very worried about Jekyll. They go to Jekyll’s laboratory and shout to Jekyll, but the voice that responds sounds like Hyde.
They break in and discover Hyde dead on the floor, having poisoned himself. There’s no sign of Jekyll and there’s a letter on the desk addressed to Utterson tells him to read Lanyon’s letter and then Jekyll’s confession

^^Chapters nine to ten-the mystery is solved^^

Lanyon’s letter explains that Hyde drank the poison and transformed into Jekyll in front of him. The shock of that caused Lanyon’s death
Jekyll’s confession reveals that he turned into Hyde without meaning to in the park. He wrote to Lanyon, asking for his help to retrieve the ingredients he needed for his potion
Jekyll wrote that he came from a respectable family, but was always ashamed of his evil desires
He created a drug that allowed him to transform between Jekyll, his original self, and Hyde,his purely evil side
As time went on, Jekyll started to turn into Hyde without taking the drug
He eventually ran out of drugs, which meant he would become Hyde permanently