The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Storyboard
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- Slide: 1
- EXPOSITION
- Stop, sir!
- On Utterson's weekly walk with his friend and kinsman Enfield, Mr. Utterson finds himself standing in front of a dark and mysterious door on an a strange street. Enfield relates back to a night when he ran into a man who had gone into that door. He had knocked over a young girl, and caused quite a scene, he paid off her family using a check in the name of a well-established man, Jekyll, in London. Enfield relates that the man who knocked the girl over was named Edward Hyde.
- Slide: 2
- CONFLICT
- -- MR. HYDE
- With the information from Enfield, Utterson grows increasingly concerned about his friend Dr. Jekyll, who had recently changed his will to instruct that if anything happened to him, everything should be given to Edward Hyde. Utterson is worried that Jekyll is being blackmailed by Mr. Hyde. Additionally, he is increasingly alarmed by Hyde’s appearance, which seems to summon fear, disgust and hatred in anyone who sees him.
- Slide: 3
- RISING ACTION
- Late one night, a maid of Dr. Jekyll’s witnesses the brutal murder of Sir Danvers Carew by Edward Hyde. Utterson goes to Jekyll, who promises him that Hyde is gone for good. He gives Utterson a letter from Hyde, which Mr. Utterson later suspects Dr. Jekyll has forged. Jekyll’s servants are frightened by things they’ve heard and seen in Jekyll’s laboratory, so they summon Utterson. They knock down the door to the laboratory and find Hyde "dead" from poison.
- Slide: 4
- CLIMAX
- Oh my! Oh my!
- After Hyde had disappeared, Jekyll sent a desperate letter to Lanyon, begging him to get a drawer from his laboratory. Hyde comes to pick it up, mixes up the contents, and drinks the potion. He transforms into Henry Jekyll right in front of Lanyon. Lanyon is so disturbed that he dies a few weeks later. He relates all of these events to Utterson in a letter to be opened only in the death or disappearance of Dr. Jekyll.
- Slide: 5
- FALLING ACTION
- Utterson reads a letter from Dr. Jekyll, which was left to him in the laboratory, along with the new copy of Dr. Jekyll’s will, leaving everything to Utterson. It relates that all his life, Jekyll felt that there were two sides to himself. Through various experiments, he unleashes Mr. Hyde, who is pure evil and thrilling to be. Eventually, however, Hyde begins to take over Jekyll, and Jekyll begins to fear and hate him.
- Slide: 6
- RESOLUTION
- MR. - UTTERSON
- Jekyll does not transform into Hyde for a while but soon, Hyde take over again. Conquered for so long, Hyde, in a rage, murders Sir Carew. This scares Jekyll into killing Hyde off for good, but eventually, he gives into temptation again. After this, Hyde begins to take over Jekyll every few hours, and Jekyll runs out of the salt for the potion. He leaves the letter and changed his will for Utterson, knowing that Henry Jekyll is be gone forever.
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