C9: Summary

Chapter 9: Doctor Jekyll's confession

Summary:

This is the last chapter of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It explains Dr Jekyll's life and the experiment that allowed him to turn into Mr Hyde. Here's the story:

Mr Hyde became a very important doctor at a very early age, so when he was young he seemed to be old. However, as he says, everbody has two faces. In his case, Mr Hyde was a good and a well-working man, and his other face was fun-loving and irresponsible. He then had an idea: What would happen if he could separate both characters?. He started doing an experiment to achieve that dream, but it had to be perfect, because if it failed he could die. One day he decided to drink it, and he turned into Mr Hyde, his evil part. Then he bought a mirror to look his appearance. Mr Hyde did bad things, but he had fun, so Dr Jekyll kept doing that. However, the day that Mr Hyde kicked the child, Dr Jekyll knew that he had to change something. One day, he went to sleep as Dr Jekyll, but he woke up being Mr Hyde, and he became nervous. Hyde had become stronger in his body while Jekyll was everyday weaker. Things got worse when Hyde killed Sin Danvers Carew, and until then Jekyll decided to stop being Hyde, but it was impossible. One day he was in a park and he suddenly turned into Hyde, thing that worried and scared him. That was when he decided to contact Dr Lanyon, who never believed in his experiments. The horror on Dr Lanyon's face made Dr Jekyll realise that he had an important problem, and he changed his feelings, but it was too late because Mr Hyde took his body whenever he wanted.

That was when Dr Jekyll decided to write a letter to Mr Utterson confessing his true story. After that, he died.