Henry Jekyll
Doctor, and respectable man of science
- Wants
- To be both a good man and a free one, without having to choose.
- Undone by
- He separates himself rather than integrating what he is.
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NovellaVictorian · 1886Study guide · no full textSteady
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson →It reads like a detective story with the detective inside the suspect. We learn the truth last, from a letter.
Study guide
This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”
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Gabriel Utterson
Lawyer, and the novel's detective
- Wants
- To protect his friend's reputation without asking him what he is doing.
- Undone by
- He respects discretion so much that he stops asking questions.
Now read the first page with all of this in mind.
The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.