"The Strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Activity

Recall and Interpret

1. What story does Enfield tell when he and Utterson pass the door? What does hearing the story cause Utterson to do?

"“I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street and all the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church—till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman. All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut. I gave a few halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running. The people who had turned out were the girl’s own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent put in his appearance. Well, the child was not much the worse, more frightened, according to the Sawbones; and there you might have supposed would be an end to it. But there was one curious circumstance. I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight. So had the child’s family, which was only natural".

 
2. After their meeting, what do Enfield and Utterson both suspect about the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde? What evidence does the text give for this suspicion?

Utterson and Enfield suspects that there's something wrong in the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde, and that's why the latter would have had the suspicious cheque!!! The most crucial evidence that proves this, is that Enfield and Utterson says that they think that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll.

3. What two pieces of information does Utterson learn about Hyde's letter to Jekyll? What do you predict that Utterson will do to help his old friend, who he suspects is in serious trouble?

Utterson discovers that it had been written by the same hand! and also, it was not taken to Jekyll by a messanger, as he told to him. I think that he will help him to escape fast from there!