RESUMEN HISTORIA - Mr. Hyde

RESUMEN HISTORIA ”the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde”
Mr. Utterson
He is a lawyer, distinguished and respected in London. He is a reserved and dignified man,

discover the secret of his friend Dr. Jekyll.
Richard Enfield
Mr. Utterson's cousin, formal and reserved gentleman.
Enfield only appears in two scenes. In both, he walks past Hyde's mysterious door with Mr.
Utterson.
Dr. Lanyon
A former friend and colleague of Dr. Jekyll. Ten years before the events in the novel, he
suspended his friendship with Dr. Jekyll because of a disagreement over scientific endeavors.
Lanyon is highly respected, rational, and values truth and goodness above all else.
Dr. Henry Jekyll
A prominent doctor described as both tall and handsome. He is also extremely wealthy with a
fortune well over two million dollars. All that know him describe him as respected and proper.
However, as the novel progresses, we subtly witness his hypocritical behavior, which
Stevenson claimed was Jekyll's fatal flaw. The doctor's belief that within each human being
there exist forces of good and evil leads to his experiments that try to separate the two.
Although presented as a scientific experiment, Jekyll undertook this task to allow himself a
release from the respectable guise of Dr. Jekyll. In the book, Jekyll's voice is only heard in the
concluding chapter, only after being described through the lens of Utterson, Lanyon, Poole,
and Enfield.
Edward Hyde
A small, deformed, disgusting man somewhat younger than Dr. Jekyll who is apparently devoid
of a profession. Lanyon, Utterson and Enfield all describe witnessing something indefinably evil
and horrific in Edward Hyde's face. He is often compared to animals, implying that he is not a
fully evolved human being. Despite these descriptions, Hyde is generally civilized in his
interactions with others, most notably Utterson and Lanyon. Dr. Jekyll describes Hyde as "pure
evil," who menaces society at night, trampling a girl in the street and murdering Sir Danvers
Carew. We learn at the end of the story that Edward Hyde and Dr. Henry Jekyll are in fact the
same person.
Richard Poole
Dr. Jekyll's faithful butler. When fearful for his master's life, Poole seeks out Mr. Utterson's
assistance. The two men discover Edward Hyde dead in Dr. Jekyll's cabinet and then, from a
letter written by Dr. Jekyll's hand, learn of the doctor's fantastic experiments.
El Mr. Utterson un prestigioso abogado londinense a escuchado una
historia de manos de su amigo, el doctor Enfield, que le hace despertar
su curiosidad. Así Utterson comienza una investigación para llegar a
averiguar la verdadera identidad de Mr. Hyde, un hombre que se
presenta muy unido a un viejo amigo conocido como el doctor Jekyll.
Sus investigaciones llevan a Utterson, en primer lugar, a un testamento

escrito por Jekyll, en el que hace propietario, en el caso de su muerte o
desaparición, de todos sus bienes a Hyde. Más tarde el abogado
mantendrá una conversación con Jekyll, el que le pedirá que se olvide
del asunto.
Un año más tarde, se produce un brutal asesinato en la ciudad, una

testigo asegura que el asesino ha sido Mr. Hyde, tras un largo tiempo de
búsqueda, éste no aparece, y se produce la extraña enfermedad y
posterior muerte del Dr. Lanyon, un viejo amigo de Utterson.
Tras mucho tiempo de tranquilidad, una noche aparece Poole, el criado

de Jekyll, en casa de Utterson para pedirle ayuda. Éste se desplaza a
casa de su amigo y tras derribar la puerta del laboratorio encuentran el
cadáver de Hyde junto a unas cartas escritas por el mismo Henry Jekyll.
Ya en casa, Utterson se pone a leerlas, en estas cartas se explica el

extraño caso: el doctor tenía una clara obsesión: dividir las dos
naturalezas de la persona (la del bien y la del mal). Esto lo consigue
mediante una poción que Jekyll inventa. Cuando se la bebe se convierte
en un ser maligno, Mr. Hyde.
Cada vez más, Hyde se fue apropiando de su cuerpo hasta llegar el

punto en el que los dos personajes se odiaban. Las proporciones con las
que fabricaba la poción se fueron acabando y no encontraba la sustancia
apropiada para la poción, hasta que ésta se acabó, ambos luchaban el
uno contra el otro, pero el final del producto llegó y tanto el Dr. Jekyll
como Mr. Hyde encuentran la muerte.
Mr. Utterson, a prestigious London lawyer, has heard a story from his
friend, Dr. Enfield, that makes him curious.
So Utterson begins an investigation to find out the true identity of Mr.

Hyde, a man very close to his old friend: Dr. Jekyll.
A testament written by Jekyll appears in Utterson's investigations. That

will says that in the case Jekyll dies or disappears, all assets belong to
Hyde.
Later the lawyer will have a conversation with Jekyll. He will ask you to
forget the subject.
A year later, there is a brutal murder in the city, a witness says that the
murderer has been Mr. Hyde. They look for it for a long time, but it does
not appear. Dr. Lanyon gets sick and dies strangely.
After a long time of tranquility, one night Poole, Jekyll's servant, appears
at Utterson's house to ask for help. Together they go to his friend's house
and after knocking down the laboratory door they find Hyde's body next to
letters written by Henry Jekyll himself.
Utterson reads the letters and there explains the strange case: the doctor
had a clear obsession: to divide the two natures of the person (that of
good and that of evil). This is achieved by a potion that Jekyll invents.
When he drinks the potion he becomes an evil being, Mr. Hyde.
Hyde appropriated his body until the two characters hated each other.
The proportions with which he made the potion were running out and he
did not find the appropriate substance for the potion, until it was over,
they both fought against each other, but the end of the product came and
both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde find death.

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RESUMEN HISTORIA ”the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

He is a lawyer, distinguished and respected in London. He is a reserved and dignified man,

Mr. Utterson's cousin, formal and reserved gentleman.

Dr. Henry Jekyll

Sus investigaciones llevan a Utterson, en primer lugar, a un testamento

Un año más tarde, se produce un brutal asesinato en la ciudad, una

Tras mucho tiempo de tranquilidad, una noche aparece Poole, el criado

Ya en casa, Utterson se pone a leerlas, en estas cartas se explica el

Cada vez más, Hyde se fue apropiando de su cuerpo hasta llegar el

So Utterson begins an investigation to find out the true identity of Mr.

A testament written by Jekyll appears in Utterson's investigations. That

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