Answers 5. Just after his irrepairable break with Jekyll, Lanyon fell ill. He died within days….

My task was to use my body for my experiment and try to extract my “evil” self.

The first batch of the potion or the drug that Dr. Jekyll created to transform himself, worked because it was impure. And this information we can get in the full statement of the case that Henry Jekyll wrote. So, the correct answer is that the first batch of the drug worked because it was impure.

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Hastie Lanyon. A reputable London doctor and, along with Utterson, formerly one of Jekyll’s closest friends. His death represents the more general victory of supernaturalism over materialism in Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Sir Danvers Carew

Utterson and Alice agree to accompany Poole to confront the person in Jekyll’s laboratory. When Utterson and Poole come to the laboratory, Hyde commits suicide by drinking poison, declaring that he has also killed Jekyll.

He is violent and commits terrible crimes – the trampling of an innocent young girl and the murder of Carew. He is unforgiving and doesn’t repent for his crimes and sins. He is selfish and wishes for complete dominance over Jekyll. He is described as ugly and Stevenson suggests he has the face of Satan.

Hyde maliciously trampled an eight-year old girl who was out to fetch a doctor. After apprehending the man, Enfield, the doctor, and the family of the girl decided that, instead of sending for the police, they would blackmail the man to give one hundred pounds to the girl’s family….

They ran into each other at the corner, and the man trampled the little girl and left her lying there screaming. Enfield, the girl’s family, and a doctor confronted the man and blackmailed him into paying 100 pounds to the girl and her family as compensation for what he’d done.

What happens to put Hyde back under suspicion? The police come to his home and find the murder weapon and Hyde’s burnedcheck book. A maid witnessed it, he had the murder weapon, a walking stick, and a burnt checkbook that belonged to him. 11.

He said simply that he wanted to avoid a scene, and he offered to pay a generous sum to the child’s family. Then he took out a key, opened the strange door, and disappeared behind it. He emerged shortly with ten pounds in gold and a check for ninety pounds.

Both the girl’s family and a doctor arrived (accept answers which include Enfield). Hyde had to pay the girl’s family £100. He paid £10 in gold coins. Enfield calls the place with the neglected door ‘Black Mail House’ (accept Blackmail House)

Why does Utterson say “God forgive us.” It reveals Utterson’s desperation. He is asking God to forgive him and Enfield for seeing this horrible event and just walking away without confronting Jekyll or helping him.

Dr Jekyll is stated to be middle-aged, but readers never learn his exact age. He is probably around fifty….

Hyde is Jekyll’s evil side made flesh. He is smaller and younger than Jekyll suggesting that Dr Jekyll’s good side is larger than his bad and that his evil side develops later in life than the good.

Jekyll is a kind and respected English doctor who has repressed evil urges inside of him. In an attempt to hide this, he develops a type of serum that he believes will effectively mask his dark side. Instead, Jekyll transforms into Edward Hyde, the physical and mental manifestation of his evil personality.

It tells the story of a mild-mannered doctor named Henry Jekyll who drinks a serum that causes him to turn into Edward Hyde, a man who is controlled by his baser instincts. While its plot was a bit fantastic and outlandish for the time, the book was very much inspired by real life events (sans magic potions)….

The 1880s were notable for both Stevenson’s declining health (which had never been good) and his prodigious literary output. He suffered from hemorrhaging lungs (likely caused by undiagnosed tuberculosis), and writing was one of the few activities he could do while confined to bed.

The book is relevant today because in the same way that Jekyll is addicted to Hyde, people in modern society are addicted to alcohol and cigarettes to relieve pressure. The message in this book is if we ignore our evil side it will return with more vengeance which you wouldn’t be able to control.

He brutally murders an innocent man, without provocation, and apparently without reason. Sir Danvers Carew is the second known victim of Hyde’s violence. It seems that Hyde kills Sir Danvers Carew simply to demonstrate his power and to release his evil..

Hyde, as his name indicates, represents the fleshy (sexual) aspect of man which the Victorians felt the need to “hide” — as Utterson once punned on his name: “Well, if he is Mr. Hyde, I will be Mr. Hyde actually comes to represent the embodiment of pure evil merely for the sake of evil.

This district, says the narrator, seems “like a district of some city in a nightmare.” Yet this is where Edward Hyde, heir to Jekyll’s quarter of a million pounds, lives.

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Hyde’s first victim of cruelty is a female child, which serves to immediately emphasize his moral depravity. The description of the fateful street where Hyde lives reinforces this theme of duality in Victorian culture.Il y a 3 jours

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