The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (annotated)

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Jekyll's transformed personality, Hyde, was evil, self-indulgent, and uncaring to anyone but himself.

But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds ; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. Stevenson is one of my favorite authors and this is my first annotation project, probably his most famous story. United, the crowd threatened to ruin the ugly man’s good name unless he did something to make amends; the man, seeing himself trapped, bought them off with one hundred pounds, which he obtained upon entering the neglected building through its only door. One night in October, a servant sees Hyde beat to death Sir Danvers Carew, another of Utterson's clients.Now, in this lavishly illustrated volume, complete with an introduction from bestselling author Joe Hill, Stevenson's classic is presented in full together with extensive notes and analysis by Edgar Award-winning literary expert Leslie S. Instead, the book presents us with what seems like a detective novel, beginning with a sinister figure of unknown origin, a mysterious act of violence, and hints of blackmail and secret scandal.

Thus, even at the most insane end of his life, Jekyll retains enough of his old rational self to keep Hyde in bounds. The next day, Utterson starts to hang about the stoop of the bleak-looking house in the hope of spying the mysterious figure. Dr Hastie Lanyon, a mutual acquaintance of Jekyll and Utterson, dies of shock after receiving information relating to Jekyll. Stevenson's exploration of the consequences of scientific curiosity and the ethical implications of separating the good and evil aspects of one's personality is both thought-provoking and chilling. Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family; he would have clearly liked to stick out; but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief, and at last he struck.It was an instant success in and beyond the literary world as people were confronted with the uneasy thought that evil originated within the individual and not from an external source like the Devil. Utterson and Enfield are out for a walk when they pass a strange-looking door (the entrance to Dr Jekyll’s laboratory). Enfield tries to describe the nature of the mysterious man’s ugliness but cannot express it, stating, ”I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.

This was nine years before Freud conducted his first psychoanalysis, and decades before Jung introduced the concept of the shadow.

He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running . In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men . Enfield tells Utterson that months ago he saw a sinister-looking man named Edward Hyde trample a young girl after accidentally bumping into her. Though even that, you know, is far from explaining all," he added, and with the words fell into a vein of musing.

Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title for three years from the date of activation of the code.And yet it's not so sure; for the buildings are so packed together about that court, that it's hard to say where one ends and another begins . At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye ; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. The mention of the doctor’s name seems to produce a visible change in the man, a kind of animal reaction, like an angry dog. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole , and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting-rooms . This new edition gives the classic tale of depraved murder and unrelenting horror its most complete and illuminating presentation yet.