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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

By Robert L. Stevenson.

This book is about a man called Dr. Jekyll. The story takes place in London, in the 1800th, when people got mugged and murdered in the backstreets. Mr. Utterson finds out about a small ugly man called Edward Hyde, he had beaten up a little girl, and Mr. Utterson was there when he received the ticket from the police officer. Utterson wants to know who this person is, because he Dr. Jekyll (one of his clients) has just put him in his testament.



Mr. Utterson is Lawyer, who is a good friend of Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll gave up his practice to experiment with non-traditional medicine. Utterson start getting concerned because Dr. Jekyll has written a testament (or how it’s written), that leaves all his money to hi new partner Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson has heard bad things about Mr. Hyde and does not like him at all. He also thinks his friend is being blackmailed.



One day the lawyer has to identify a body of a murdered man, Sir Danvers Carew, one of Utterson’s clients. Mr. Hyde is being suspected for the murder, but no one can seem to find him. Dr. Jekyll swears that he hasn’t seen Mr. Hyde and that they are not friends anymore. The murder case remains unsolved and Dr. Jekyll becomes more sociable than he had been before.



But one day he locks himself into his laboratory, yelling to the servant and telling them to gather some chemicals for him. The servants recognize a change in his voice, and believe that the Dr. Jekyll has been murdered, and that an unknown man has taken his place in his laboratory. They call for Mr. Utterson, who breaks down the door, only to find the body of Mr. Hyde lying on the floor. It seems like he has killed himself with poison. He assumes that he has killed Dr. Jekyll, but his body is no where to be found.



He finds a letter, were Jekyll explain his relationship to Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll had some times been involved with something, and if this had been discovered. It could have ruined his reputation and made a fool out of him. He decides that he would like to find out, how I can separate his two personalities. He then creates a potion which releases his evil side (Mr. Hyde is his evil side). For a while Jekyll enjoys his two bodies, because he can do whatever he likes without being discovered. His pleasure is stunted when Hyde kills Carew, and he decides never to take the potion again. Hyde is now strong, and he becomes Mr. Hyde whether Jekyll will or not. He must use the potion to get rid of him, if only for a small moment. He knows that the only way to kill Mr. Hyde is by killing himself.



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