How Does Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Prove Collusion

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Andrew Ganssle Mrs. Huhn Language Arts 30 January 2012 Collusion In the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego, Mr. Hyde, work in collusion with one another to commit crimes. This is shown numerous times in the book, and is blatantly overlooked time after time. Mr. Hyde tramples a little innocent girl in the middle of night, and is demanded by a crowd for payment for his actions. Without hesitant, a check is written by Mr. Jekyll as compensation for the actions of Hyde. Also, at the scene of the murder incident, a cane that was given to Jekyll as a gift is found as a piece of evidence. The other half of that cane was later found in Mr. Hyde’s apartment, still broken,…show more content…
The witness, a maidservant, was admiring the beauty of life itself out of a window and coincidentally witnessed the murder of Mr. Carew. She describes Mr. Carew as, “an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near along the lane” (Stevenson 21). The maidservant later describes the murderer as a, “very small gentleman, to whom at first she paid less attention to.” “Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognize in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master for whom she had conceived a dislike” (Stevenson 21). The maidservant later describes how she witness Mr. Hyde beat Mr. Carew to death with a blunt object. It took the maidservant some hours to finally call the police and wake up from shock. The blunt object or murder weapon was found to be a rare, sturdy, broken cane that was missing the other half. It was concluded that the other half must have been carried away by the murderer, Mr. Hyde. Later, when Mr. Utterson and the police conducted an investigation in Hyde’s apartment, they found the other half of the cane. The exact cane was given to Jekyll as a gift by Utterson, years ago. “Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer: broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had…show more content…
Hyde and Mr. Jekyll is a written document that blatantly points out collusion between the two. The written document is a letter left by Hyde addressed to Jekyll. Jekyll fears making any actions with the letter, due to the negativity that it could bring to his reputation and leaves it for Mr. Utterson to see. “No, I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am quite done with him. I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed” (Stevenson 27). The letter signed by Edward Hyde, and composed to Henry Jekyll, stated that Mr. Hyde had safe passage out of London, and that he will forever be gone. After reading the letter, Jekyll pleaded to Utterson to change his will, and to forget about this seedy figure. This letter sat well with Utterson until it was inspected by Mr. Guest. Mr. Guest was a penmanship expert, and after taking a look at the letter, and then a look at Jekyll’s handwriting, he concluded that they were the same. “There’s a rather singular resemblance; the two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped” (Stevenson 29). This led Utterson to the conclusion that Jekyll had forged the note for Hyde, and he didn’t know why. “What! Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!” (Stevenson

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