Author by R.L. Stevenson
Dr. Henry Jekyll feels he is battling between the good and bad within himself, thus leading his fight with Edward Hyde. He spends his life trying to repress wickedly, that is not a fitting for a man of his stature. He develops a serum in an attempt to mask this hidden evil. However, in doing so, Jekyll transforms into Hyde, a hideous creature without compassion or remorse. Jekyll has a friendly personality, but as Hyde, he becomes mysterious and violent. As time goes by, Hyde grows in power and eventually manifests whenever Jekyll shows signs of physical or moral weakness, no longer needing the serum to be released.
Stevenson never says exactly what Hyde does on his nightly forays, usually saying that it is something evil and lustful nature. Thus, in the context of the times, it is abhorrent to Victorian religious morality Hyde may have been reveling in activities such as engaging with prostitutes or burglary. However, it is Hyde's violent activities that seem to give him the most thrills, driving him to attack and murder Sir Danvers Carew without apparent reason, making him a hunted outlaw throughout England.
Eventually, the stock of ingredients from Jekyll had been preparing the potion ran low, and subsequent batches by Dr. Jekyll from renewed stocks failed to produce the transformation. Jekyll speculated that the one essential ingredient that made the original potion work (a salt) must have itself been contaminated. After sending Poole to one chemist after another to buy the salt that was running low only to find it would not work, he assumed that after the supply of all the essential ingredient that made the potion successful for his experiments. His ability to change from Hyde to Jekyll had slowly disappeared in result. Jekyll wrote that as he composed his letter, he knew that he would soon become Hyde permanent, having used the last of the salt and he wondered if Hyde will face execution for his crimes. Jekyll noted that, in either case, the end of his life He ended the letter saying, "I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end". With these words, both the document and the novella come to a close.
The original pronunciation of Jekyll was "Jeekul", which used the pronunciation of Stevenson's native Scotland. This is also the pronunciation of Gertrude Jekyll.
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