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Dr. Jekyll prepares a potion which makes the person more younger and cruel for some time. That potion converts Dr. Jekyll to a brutal person namely Mr. Hyde who commit serious crimes.
Mr. utterson finds all this fishy and investigates the case. By the time the potion was overpowering the doctor and slowly he started turning into a split personality. Sometimes he changes into Mr. Hyde without the use of potion. He gets annoyed with this change in himself and tries to find an antidote.
At last the doctor dies painfully leaving a note to Mr. utterson describing his unhappy life and disastrous end.
hardik, Resident Scholar
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Utterson is a lawyer who happens to be a friend of the kind gentleman Dr. Henry Jekyll. When Jekyll requests Utterson in his will to have a mysterious and bestial young man named Edward Hyde as the heir to Jekyll's fortune, Utterson becomes interested in the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde. Fearing the possibility that it is a homosexual relationship, Utterson starts to investigate the matter in order to save his friend and his honour from humiliation. Utterson then realizes what kind of a relationship it was: both Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are one and the same individual. Apparently, Jekyll did experiments with the intention of separating his darker aspects in order to become perfect. The result was the physical manifestation of his shadow side into a being known as Edward Hyde. However, it seems that Jekyll has lost control over Hyde.
Josh Nelson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%
Tone of book
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Lifeform altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- Scientifically turned into another lifeform
- Scientifically turned into a monster
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
- 60's-90's
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- can change shapes
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Genius
Physique
- physically sick
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- killer
- doctor
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can change shapes
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
- physically sick
Setting
Earth setting:
- 19th century
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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