Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde A Class Project
Daniel Paniagua 3ªA IES Cristo del Rosario – Zafra (Badajoz) 19/02/2014
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Burlington Books
Main Characters: • Dr Jekyll: He's an important doctor, and friend of Lanyon, another doctor, and Utterson, a lawyer. He's very inteligent, tall and young. •
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Mr Hyde: He's the evil side of Dr Jekyll, he's violent and curel, and everyone who sees him describes him as ugly and deformed. Mr Utterson: He's a lawyer, he does seem to possess a furtive curiosity about all. He has a mustache and he is not very old. Poole: He's Jekyll's butler. Mr. Poole is a loyal servant, having worked for the doctor for twenty years. He an old man and he has glasses. Dr Lanyon: A reputable London doctor and, along with Utterson, one of Jekyll’s friends. He's an old man who die in the story. Mr Enfield: A distant cousin and friend of Mr. 2
Utterson. Like Utterson, Enfield is reserved and formal. The two men often walk together for long streets without saying a word to one another.
Summary Mr. Utterson is a London lawyer who is a friend of Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll gave up his regular practice to experiment with non-traditional medicine. Utterson is concerned because Jekyll has written a will that leaves all his money to his new partner Mr. Hyde. Utterson has heard bad things of Hyde and disliked him at first sight. One day, the lawyer is asked to identify the body of a murdered man, Sir Danvers Carew, one of Utterson’s clients. Hyde is suspected of the murder, but he has disappeared. Jekyll swears that he has not seen Hyde and has broken with him forever. Suddenly, Jekyll locks himself into his laboratory. The servants recognize a change in Jekyll's voice; another man has taken his place in the lab. They call Utterson who breaks down the door. On the floor lies Hyde, who has killed himself with poison. Sadly, Utterson assumes Hyde returned and killed Jekyll, but the doctor’s body is nowhere to be found. Utterson does find, a letter in which Jekyll explains his relationship to Hyde. Jekyll decides to find a way to separate his two beings. Jekyll creates a potion that releases his evil side, Mr. Hyde. Jekyll knows that it is only by killing his body that Hyde’s body, too, will die.
Personal opinion I like the story, it's a complex view of the relationship between body and mind that is interesting and unusual. To me, Hyde is my favourite character, because is uncontrollable and strong, nothing else matters to him. This story show me that all the people have two sides, good side and evil side.
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Vocabulary chart WORD
MEANING
SENTENCE
Lying
Mintiendo
You're lying!
Postmark
Matasellos
There wasn't a postmark
Tightly
Fuertemente
Dr Jekyll closed his mouth tightly for a moment
Trust
Confiar
Dr Jekyll seems to trust Mr Hyde
Maid
Doncella
A maid, alone in a house
Didn't apologise
No pidi贸 disculpas
He didn't apologise to the girl
Punish
Castigar
We all agreed to punish the man
Several
Varios
I came several times to the building
Towards
Hacia
She saw another old man walking towards the house
Sighed
Suspir贸
Utterson sighed
Stepped back
Retrocedi贸
The old gentleman stepped back
Swing
Balancear
He became angry and began to swing his cane in the air
Cane
Bast贸n
He became angry and began to swing his cane in the air
Ashes
Cenizas
There were ashes in the fireplace
Fireplace
Chimenea
There were ashes in the fireplace
Trial
Juicio
But perhaps there will be a trial
Envelope
Sobre
Have you envelope?
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