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Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Utterson is a
lawyer. The best friend of Mr Utterson is Mr Enfield. Once, they were
walking along the streets, Enfiels told him a strange story. He was
going home at three o'clock in the morning when he suddenly saw two
persons. The first was a little girl who was running as fast as she
could and the second was a person who was just walking. But then the two
bumped into each other and the child fell down. Then a terrible thing
happened: the man just walked over the little girl. Enfield saw it and
ran after the man. Meanwhile, the doctor and the family of the child
were come. They wanted that the man gave them money for not telling that
story to everyone. So the man went home for money. He had a cheque with
him and the name on it was a well-known one, known for his kindness and
goodness. But the stranger told them that his name was Hyde. Enfield
didn't trust that and so they went together to the bank for the money.
And the man got the money, so something was wrong. I have already told
you that Mr Utterson is a lawyer. Dr Jekyll is a client of Mr Utterson
and he had given his well to Mr Utterson with the following text: When I
die or disappear for more than 3 months, I wish to let everything I own
to my dear friend Edward Hyde. Then everything went normal again. A year
later, another strange thing happened. It was midnight and there was a
servant girl who could not sleep. She was sitting at her bedroom window
and looking outside. She saw two men walking along the street. She
recognised one of them, it was Mr Hyde. Suddenly, Hyde seemed to explode
with anger. He hit the other man violently with the stick he was
carrying. He knocked him to the ground. He beat him again and again. So
Mr Utterson wants to find out what's wrong. He went together with a
police inspector, to Mr Hyde's place. There they find the other half of
the stick because one part had lain beside the body of the dead man.
They also found a half-burnt chequebook of Mr Hyde. So they were sure
now Hyde was the murderer. A few days later Utterson went to Dr Jekyll
to pay him a visit. But he did not look healthy. Jekyll told him that he
would never see Hyde again. He also told him that Hyde had planned to
murder him. Jekyll had received a letter from Hyde. Utterson took the
letter with him to home, and discovered that it was the same handwriting
as that from Mr Jekyll. That was strange! ! Another few months passed.
One day he met a friend, who was also a good friend of Dr Jekyll. Dr
Lanyon was very ill and had only a few weeks to live. So he died. In a
letter from Dr Lanyan to Utterson, there was an envelope with the words:
Not to be opened until the death or disappearance of Dr Jekyll. Those
were the same words as in the will of Dr Jekyll. So time passed.
Utterson was trying hard to see Jekyll, but Jekyll always refuses. So
Utterson thought: there's something wrong with him, he needs help. He
asked it again, at the door of the laboratory where Jekyll always locked
himself up. But that was not the voice of Jekyll. It was the voice of Mr
Hyde, the person who was a murderer and wanted by the police! So
probably he had murdered Jekyll because of the money. Utterson broke
down the door. But it was already too late. In the middle of the room
was Mr Hyde lying, on the floor, dead. He had taken a poison to kill
himself. Utterson found a packet with letters, addressed to himself from
Dr Jekyll. In one of them stood: go home and read the letter of Mr
Lanyon. So he did it. That letter is the most important of the whole
book: Lanyon told that he had received a letter from Mr Jekyll. In that
letter Jekyll told him that he had to go to his laboratory and take a
book, a small bottle and chemical powders. He had to take everything
back home and at midnight he should receive a visit from a man. Please
give him everything, asked Jekyll. So the man came. It was Mr Hyde, who
was dead now. He came in and asked a medicine glass. So he took the
chemical powders, the bottle and put it all together. Than he drunk it.
His whole body began to shook and shiver. He was breathing fast through
his open mouth. And then his whole body began to change. He became
taller, fetter. Suddenly it was over. But he was changed. In front of
him stood Henry Jekkyl!! Hyde and Jekyll were the same persons!! Then
Utterson read the confession of Jekyll. He told him that he was all his
life unhappy, because everyone saw him as a serious, kind and good man.
And inside him he was not. So he wanted to create a liquid for making
himself that other person inside him. And it worked. But not very well.
After a year or so he had to take double doses and sometimes, when he
awoke, he was suddenly Mr Hyde. He had not thought about it that the
evil person in himself could win it from the good person. But it
happened. One day, when he was walking in the park, as Dr Jekyll, and he
suddenly became Mr Hyde. So after that, he closed himself up in the
laboratory, because Hyde was wanted by the police. He always became
Hyde, without taking a dose of his liquid. He did not want that and he
drunk his liquid. But he always needed stronger doses. Jekyll felt that
Hyde was taking control over his body. So he drank poison when Utterson
broke in.
That was the end
of Mr Hyde and Dr Jekyll.
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