Chapters 8-10 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Mr. Poole goes to Utterson very shaken and scared. He tells Utterson that he thinks that there has been some kind of foul play regarding Jekyll and insist that Utterson go back to Dr. Jekyll's house with him.  On their way there, Utterson feels very uneasy. When they do get to the house, they find all Jekyll's servants gathered around with fearful faces. Utterson and Poole go up to the lab, and Poole tells Jekyll that Utterson has come to visit him, but he responds in a voice that is not Jekyll's and tell them that he is not seeing anyone at the moment. They both then go to the kitchen and Poole begins to tell Utterson about  all the strange things that have been happening like the strange voice wanting him to go on constant runs to the pharmacy because he is in need of a drug in which no one in London sells, and the weird footsteps he hears. He also tells Utterson that he once saw the man in the lab come out, in which he said looked nothing like his master. They both come to the conclusion that they should break into the lab and see what is really going on. Utterson tells Jekyll that they will come in by force, and Jekyll begs them not to, and Utterson recognizes the voice to be Hyde's and they immediately break down the door. When they go inside they find Hyde's body laying on the floor with one of Jekyll's suits on, and next to him seems to be some kind of vile, in which looks like he has poisoned himself. They also see a mirror in which they find odd, and then on a desk find a big envelope which is addressed to Utterson. He opens it, and find a will, a note with the present date, in which it says that he can open the other letter from Lanyon to finally hear his confession. In the envelope is also another seal note in which he does not wish to open until he his in private. He takes the three things and goes home and tells Poole that he will be back before midnight in which they will call the police.
The next part of the chapter is the story told in Dr. Lanyon's eyes to Mr. Utterson, he says that after the dinner party he received a strange letter from Jekyll telling him that he wanted him to do something for him. It instructed him to go and remove a drawer from the lab and take it, as to which someone would come and take it at midnight. The letter was very vague but said that if he listened that he would soon find out the truth. Very confused, Lanyon did as the letter said, and when he got to Jekyll's house, he went into the lab, and took out the drawer. In it he found a weird vile of salt, and some kind of other red liquid. It also contained a notebook, in which it had what seemed to be all of the recordings of experiments. At midnight, a small sized evil man appeared which was Mr. Hyde, though Lanyon did not know who he was since he had never seen him before. Mr. Hyde seemed to be very anxious and only wanted to get to the drawer. He took the salt and the red liquid mixed it, and told Lanyon if he wanted to see what would happened. Lanyon curious and confused said that he wanted to see. Mr. Hyde drunk the liquid and soon the little man turned into Dr. Jekyll in front of his eyes. Lanyon end the letter saying that what Jekyll told him after is too horrifying to repeat.
The last part is Jekyll explaining his story to Utterson. He said he started out as a healthy body with a good nature. He would appear as serious and put-together in public while hiding his more evil side behind close doors. By the time he had grown he said he found himself living a double life, in which his good side constantly felt guilty of his evil side's actions and he wanted to make something that would separate his good and evil side, which is when he started researching. He finally found a chemical that could separate the two. He bought the last ingredient to his experiment, which was the salt and then he mixed and drank the potion. He said at first he felt pain nausea, but after that he had transformed into this little man in which he felt stronger, younger, and powerful: Mr. Hyde. Transforming into Hyde had become a pleasure for Jekyll. Jekyll even built a separate home and opened a different bank account for Hyde. Everyime Jekyll would turn from Hyde back to himself, he felt like he did not wrong, though Jekyll would try to fix any wrong doing that Hyde had did. Though after a while he began to realize that he was acting out of hand, when he involuntarily turning into Hyde. He then told himself that he would not drink the potion again, though after a while he gave in, and Hyde was even more wilder in which led to the death of Dr. Carew, in which he was delighted in doing so. After this, Jekyll decided to never turn into Hyde again. Though after some months while at the park, he turned into Hyde involuntarily, which was the time he sent Lanyon to get his potions for him. In the end, Hyde grew stronger and Jekyll weaker, and the needed salt was not working anymore, his last moment he spent writing the letter to Utterson which which he said Henry Jekyll will be dead.

" All things therefore seemed to point to this: that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse. (55)
This quote is significant since we start to see that Jekyll realizes that his evil side is becoming stronger than his regular self. He likes the things that his evil side is doing, and feels powerful. Though he knows the crimes he is committing is out of hand.

"I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck:that man is not truly one, but truly two."(48) this quote is also interesting, since it is what drove Jekyll to go on with his experiment to separate the good and evil of a man and separate and the good and evil in himself.

Demonic Disturbances of Sexual Identity: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr/s Hyde

Janice Doane and Devon Hodges

NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction , Vol. 23, No. 1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 63-74

This article basically talks about, in the Victorian age that woman were looked at as powerful and threatening probably because of their use of seduction. the article compares this to Mr. Hyde, in which it says that he poses the same qualities as a woman. It says that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a combination of masculine and feminine qualities and how it can be compared to the author and his wife.