The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

There's a nice doctor named Dr. Jekyll who makes a special potion that turns him into a scary, mean bully called Mr. Hyde. His friend Mr. Utterson notices Hyde doing bad things like hurting people and tries to figure out the mystery with another doctor friend. It turns out Jekyll and Hyde are the same person because everyone has good and bad inside, but the bad side takes over and it ends super sadly with no one winning.

In the dimly lit, fog-enshrouded streets of Victorian London, the narrative unfolds through the perspective of Mr. Gabriel Utterson, a prudent lawyer disturbed by the peculiar terms of his client Dr. Henry Jekyll's will, which leaves everything to the shadowy figure Edward Hyde. Utterson's unease deepens after hearing from his cousin Mr. Enfield about Hyde's brutal trampling of a young girl, compensated with a check drawn from Jekyll's account, and escalates with Hyde's savage murder of the elderly MP Sir Danvers Carew using Jekyll's cane. As Utterson collaborates with the ailing Dr. Hastie Lanyon, who witnesses a horrifying transformation, the mystery intensifies, blending Gothic suspense with psychological intrigue. The novella's climax reveals Jekyll's audacious scientific experiment: a potion that physically manifests his dual nature, unleashing the primal, amoral Hyde as a means to indulge repressed vices without consequence. Initially triumphant, Jekyll loses control as Hyde's dominance grows, overriding the transformations and leading to Lanyon's death from shock and Jekyll's suicide. Stevenson's masterpiece dissects the human psyche's inherent conflict, warning of the perils of tampering with one's moral boundaries in a repressive society, where the 'respectable' facade conceals monstrous impulses.