The strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde:

-Narrative process: Firts there´s a third-person narrator until the end where Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Henry Jekyll give their full statement of the strange case. All of the narrators seem to be reliable because they are highly educated lawyers and doctors and in this jobs they have to be honest and reliable.

-Characters:
All the characters in the story are sense-isolated. They have no wives, no families and no close friendships. They have servants and they have acquaintances, but that is all.
Dr. Henry Jekyll: He is an apparently respectable man who contains within him a potential for profound wickedness, released in the shape of Mr. Hyde. He is a moral and decent man but he has always been leading a double life and he is doing that because he has aimed so high. He wanted respect, honour and distinction, to be highly regarded in society, and thus felt that he had to conceal any irregularities in his life. In the last phase of the story he takes over as narrator and tells us about himself. He is seen as a respectable man engaged in a worthy profession. He has tried so hard to be good - he has led a life \"of effort, virtue and control\" - the undeveloped evil side of his nature is what is set free.
Mr. Edward Hyde: Dr. Jekyll ,in becoming Mr. Hyde, is liberating himself. He sets himself free from moral restraint and becomes beast-like, brutish , sub-human and pure evil. He shows that there´s the potential for evil within us all.
After the change he was slighter, smaller and younger than Jekyll and he had full liberty and power in Jekyll´s house. Hyde had his own room in Soho, his own clothes and even his own bank account.
His leading characteristics were complete moral insensibility and insenste readiness to evil.
Mr.Utterson: The lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and somehow lovable.
His friendships seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known longest and this united him to them. His relationship to Enfield is cool and distant and there is no real intimacy.
Mr. Richard Enfield: Utterson´s distant cousin and the well-known man about town.
He and Mr. Utterson go for walks every Sunday and people report that they don´t say a word and looked absolutely dull.
On another walk he told his friend that he had a frightening experience with a man looking like Satan who ran down a little girl. Mr. Enfield and other passer-bies stopped him and told him to pay kind of compensation for the girl´s family´s suffering. He gave them a cheque where the honourable Dr. Jekyll had put his signature. Of course Enfield didn´t trust him but on the next day the bank employee told him that the signature was not forged.
Dr. Hastie Lanyon: He was a good friend and collegue of Dr. Jekyll. Utterson, Jekyll and Lanyon were very good friends.
When Jekyll was very ill Lanyon treated him and ther he found out that Jekyll and Hyde were the same person. And this was his death.
In a letter to Uttersonwhich had to be opened after his death he told him the frightening story.
Poole: He was Dr. Jekyll´s devoted butler. When the strange actions around Jekyll´s house started he always informed the loyal friends.

-Plot:
The story \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" is about a doctor who creates a tincture which transfirmates your body and soul into your unknown evil character.
He changed himself from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde. When he was Mr. Hyde he could do all the things he cwasn´t allowed to do in his moral and decent character of the doctor.
Nobody knows about the changes in Dr. Jekyll but suddenly the \"magic\" tincture doesn´t really work any more. Over night he changes from good to evil and he can´t return the transformation.
Dr. Lanyon, his friend, find sout about the strange and wrote a letter to the lawyer Mr. Utterson . The next night Lanyon is dead and shortly after that the evil Hyde kills himself.

-Time span:
The story plays in the 19th century. The first three chapters happen about a year before all important actions. The time span seems to be compressed because everything occures from October to January or longer but it seems to be in a few days.


-Space:
The setting is London. But the ambience is without a doubt Edinburgh, the Edinburgh of the Old Town´s dark wynds and closes, where the turn of a corner could abruptly leave behind the world of surface respectability, and the lingering shades of Burke and Hare, the grave-robbers, and Deacon Brodie, cabinet maker by day, criminal by night, still flavoured the atmosphere.
There are several places where the actions take place, for example Jekyll´s house, the streets of London, Utterson´s bachelor house and the homes of other characters.


-Language:
Although the characters are highly educated the language is still easy to understand. They don´t use regional expressions and the dialogues are not complex.

-Symbolism:
There are two messages within the book: firstly to beware the hidden sin and secondly to beware tampering with nature.
Stevenson wants to show that even in an apparently respectable man there is the potential of the evil and that nearly everyone is leading a doublelife within oneself.

It is a frightening but also gripping book which can be read easily in one day.
The reader can also learn something of this book: even the best educated and politest men or women can sometimes have a day or a situation where they want to show the evil just to be good again the next time.