Mr. Utterson is a lawyer, Dr. Henry Jekyll is a doctor, and Edward Hyde, who has no profession definida.Dr. Jekyll is a wealthy man, tall, handsome, and protects Edward Hyde, a criminal who is strange and assustador.Sr. Utterson is a lawyer of Dr. Henry Jekyll, and receive a doctor's will, saying that Hyde is the only herdeiro.Segundo the theories of Dr. Jekyll, every human being has two different faces is sometimes good and sometimes it's bad. The good news is that people like for example, praise from friends and the wife or girlfriend is bad and that is violent, aggressive, rude, ugly, crazy and everyone is afraid. When a person is half good and half bad, the person is considered normal, but sometimes there are people who are good than bad economies and people are more bad than good. .
With this, the scientist and physician, Dr. Henry Jekyll has devoted years of study in search of a formula that is able to show the evil nature of man and he succeeded.
At the beginning of the book Mr. Utterson, the lawyer of Dr. Henry Jekyll, walks the streets of the Quiet side of his kinsman, Mr. Richard, who he tells what happened to him involving a door and a mysterious figure. He says he witnessed the moment when a nasty looking man, who strode down the road a child coming in the opposite direction, leaving her crying on the sidewalk. The man was pursued and taken in place of the accident, the monstrous man, whose name was Hyde, said he would pay the damages caused to the girl's family. As the Sr.Utterson not believe man was with him until a strange door and was startled when he received the cheque.Depois Mr. Utterson makes a promise that it will conduct a search on Mr. Hyde anyway.
The lawyer even more confused about the last event, he receives a report of Dr. Jekyll, a respected and admired physician, favoring his will in case of loss, Dr. Hyde would be the owner. From that point, the doctor is alone in his lab, leaving all his acquaintances, while the lawyer thinks it was a kidnapping, blackmail and even murder. The worst cases are to make sense when Sir Danvers Carew, a rich old man and calm, is brutally murdered under the eyes of a maid from a high window. After a description of the girl, Dr. Hyde became the biggest suspect, is being hunted by police in the region and disappears without a trace in the same instant that Dr.Henry Jekyll reaparesse in society.