A Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

            The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a short book by Robert Louis Stevenson about a British lawyer named Mr. Utterson who was going to go see his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll. Henry Jekyll is a kind and civil man and most respected man in England. It was late at night when Mr. Utterson made it to Jekyll’s town but he saw something that night that he could never forget. He saw a monster who had brutally stomped a little girl and an old man to death for no reason.

            Now the Mr. Utterson had proof that the foul twisted monster was Mr. Hyde (the inner rage) had beat the old man and the little girl to death, but Hyde was Dr. Jekyll in a different form. Mr. Utterson went to Dr. Jekyll’s house that morning when he hears that Jekyll was making a tincture but when he drank it he released his inner rage.

            People begin to hate Dr. Jekyll for what he did but they didn’t have enough evidence to throw Jekyll into prison, but they knew what Hyde had done. The only person who has respect Jekyll is his soon to be wife Poole. Poole knows what happens to Jekyll and how he becomes Hyde but she does not want to believe that he is a murder. Can Mr. Utterson clear his friends name and stop Mr. Hyde once and for all or will Mr. Hyde continue his rampage?

            So think about it the next time some gets you mad and you look down at you clenched fists. Think about it the next time your temper explodes and you reach for something to throw or break. Think about it the next time you’re grounded, or you get blamed for something you didn’t do, or you get so furious that your teeth are clenched. Down there, down there in the dark. You’re in control. You know you are, but the question is dose Hyde know it too?