A strange accident Stevenson page 96
Utterson and Enfield are out for a walk when they pass a strange-looking door (the entrance to Dr
Jekyll's laboratory). Enfield recalls a story involving the door. In the early hours of one winter
morning, he says, he saw a man trampling on a young girl. He pursued the man and brought him
back to the scene of the crime. (The reader later learns that the man is Mr Hyde.) A crowd gathered
and, to avoid a scene, the man offered to pay the girl compensation. This was accepted, and he
opened the door with a key and re-emerged with some money and a large cheque. Utterson is very
interested in the case and asks whether Enfield is certain Hyde used a key to open the door. Enfield
is sure he did.
Dr. Henry Jekyll:
A respected doctor and friend of both Lanyon, a fellow physician, and Utterson, a lawyer. Jekyll is a
seemingly prosperous man, well established in the community, and known for his decency and
charitable works. Since his youth, however, he has secretly engaged in unspecified dissolute and
corrupt behavior. Jekyll finds this dark side a burden and undertakes experiments intended to
separate his good and evil selves from one another. Through these experiments, he brings Mr. Hyde
into being, finding a way to transform himself in such a way that he fully becomes his darker half.
Mr. Edward Hyde:
A strange, repugnant man who looks faintly pre-human. Hyde is violent and cruel, and everyone
who sees him describes him as ugly and deformed — yet no one can say exactly why. Language itself
seems to fail around Hyde: he is not a creature who belongs to the rational world, the world of
conscious articulation or logical grammar. Hyde is Jekyll’s dark side, released from the bonds of
conscience and loosed into the world by a mysterious potion.
Mr. Gabriel John Utterson:
A prominent and upstanding lawyer, well respected in the London community. Utterson is reserved,
dignified, and perhaps even lacking somewhat in imagination, but he does seem to possess a furtive
curiosity about the more sordid side of life. His rationalism, however, makes him ill equipped to deal
with the supernatural nature of the Jekyll-Hyde connection. While not a man of science, Utterson
resembles his friend Dr. Lanyon — and perhaps Victorian society at large — in his devotion to
reasonable explanations and his denial of the supernatural.
The truth about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll tells the story of how he turned into Hyde. It began as scientific curiosity in the duality of
human nature (or the good and evil), and his attempt to destroy the 'darker self'. Eventually,
however, he became addicted to the character of Hyde, who increasingly took over and destroyed
him. The novel does not return to Utterson who, at the end of Chapter 8, was going to return to
Jekyll's house.
Suicide – Jude the Obscure- Thomas Hardy
Sue wakes up early one morning and goes to find Jude, who has found a passable inn. They have a
quick breakfast together and then return to Sue’s lodgings. They make breakfast for the children,
who seem to still be sleeping, and then Sue goes to wake them. Jude hears her shriek and he rushes
in. Sue has fainted and the children are gone. Jude opens the closet door and finds all three children
dead, hanging from clothes hooks. An overturned chair is near Little Father Time’s feet. Jude
