Jekyll needed to sell salt to pay for his laboratory supplies. Hyde became violent and destroyed property because he could not find salt. It explains that he could not find the specific salt needed to make his transformation. It explains that he was frustrated with Poole for not completing the errand and obtaining salt. Jekyll's confession answer questions about his desperate search for chemical salts? You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked it was in vain and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught. I sent out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught the ebullition followed, and the first change of colour, not the second I drank it and it was without efficiency. My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low. "For God's sake," he added, "find me some of the old." can hardly be exaggerated." So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose. He now begs them to search with most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, forward it to him at once. purchased a somewhat large quantity from Messrs. He assures them that their last sample is impure and quite useless for his present purpose. Jekyll presents his compliments to Messrs. Poole felt in his pocket and handed out a crumpled note, which the lawyer, bending nearer to the candle, carefully examined. Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Strange Case of Dr. It reveals why Jekyll looked so sad and would not join the men. Utterson found and disclosed Hyde's true identity. It reveals where Jekyll obtained the chemicals to change himself. It reveals what frightened the men when they looked in the window. Jekyll's confession answer questions about his strange behavior toward Mr. Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self. Read the excerpt from chapter 10 of The Strange Case of Dr. "I should like to very much but no, no, no, it is quite impossible I dare not." Jekyll.) Come now get your hat and take a quick turn with us." "You should be out, whipping up the circulation like Mr. "You stay too much indoors," said the lawyer. "I am very low, Utterson," replied the doctor drearily, "very low.
The middle one of the three windows was half-way open and sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of The Strange Case of Dr. It demonstrates the drugs' effects on his body and the physical effects of his transformation. It contrasts the fear he feels about becoming Hyde with the peace he feels when safe at home. It explains others' reactions to Jekyll's changing personality and confusing behavior. Jekyll's letter show his internal struggle? I still hated and feared the thought of the brute that slept within me, and I had not of course forgotten the appalling dangers of the day before but I was once more at home, in my own house and close to my drugs and gratitude for my escape shone so strong in my soul that it almost rivalled the brightness of hope. I awoke in the morning shaken, weakened, but refreshed.
I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. I received Lanyon's condemnation partly in a dream it was partly in a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed. It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr.