Jekyll and Hyde: Chapter 10
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
What does Jekyll drink to become Edward Hyde?
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A draught he compounds with a particular salt bought from a firm of wholesale chemists.Reference: Chapter 10, the first transformation
- Question 2 · Recall
Where does Jekyll find that he has become Hyde without taking the drug?
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He wakes up as Hyde in his own bed, and later changes in Regent's Park.Reference: Chapter 10, the involuntary changes
- Question 3 · Recall
What goes wrong with the salt that Jekyll needs?
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His old supply runs out, and a fresh batch fails to bring the second change, so he decides the first salt held some impurity.Reference: Chapter 10, the failing supply
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Jekyll create Hyde?
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He believes man is truly two, and hopes to separate his good and evil sides so each can live free of the other.Reference: Chapter 10, the theory
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Jekyll fear he must soon stay Hyde for good?
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The changes come more often and without the drug, and the powders he needs to change back are nearly gone.Reference: Chapter 10, the last paragraphs
Chapter summary
Henry Jekyll opens his statement by describing his wealth and his wish to look grave and respectable while hiding his pleasures. He comes to believe that a person is truly two, and he searches for a way to separate the two halves. A chemical salt from a wholesale firm completes his drug. He drinks it, feels agony, and becomes the smaller, younger Edward Hyde, then returns by drinking again.
Jekyll rents a house in Soho, tells his servants that Hyde may come and go freely, and writes his will. He pays for the trampled child with a cheque in his own name, then opens a bank account for Hyde and forges a backward-sloping hand. Waking as Hyde in his bed frightens him, and after two months of good living he gives in and changes again and kills Sir Danvers Carew. Later he turns into Hyde in Regent's Park and writes to Lanyon and Poole from a Portland Street hotel. The salt runs out, and he writes this confession with the last of the old powders.
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