Jekyll's Plot line.
10.1- Tempted to separate the good and evil within him, Jekyll creates a potion with the power to do so. "For any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of Identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportune in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change." (Stevenson, page 57).
10.2- Jekyll takes a gamble and drinks the potion, transforming into Hyde for the first time. Once he examined his new younger body, he took the potion again and returned to looking as Jekyll. This is the beginning of the rising action in Jekyll's story."I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill race in my fancy, a solution to the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. (Stevenson, page 57)
10.3- Conflict; Jekyll awakes as Hyde despite having gone to sleep as Jekyll. This is a conflict in Jekyll's story because from this point on, Hyde start to gain dominance over Jekyll. This is only an introduction to the problem. " But the which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bed clothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thick shaded with a smart growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde." (Stevenson, page 61)
10-4. After his spook, Jekyll realized things were getting out of hand, so he decided to abstain. Abstain he did, but after two months, the urge for Hyde's freedom caused him to fall into a relapse. Jekyll is now loosing control over Hyde and the potion." But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praise of consciousness began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling for freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again again compounded and swallowed the transforming drought. (Stevenson, page 63)
10.5- Hyde, finally let loose, decides to take out his anger on Carew, a member of Parliament; He beats him with his cane till at last he died. Realizing what he did, Jekyll, while still in the body of Hyde fled and transformed, ashamed of what he did. "The Pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God." (Stevenson, page 64)
10.6-At last, Jekyll's story reaches climax; After attempting to abstain again, Hyde managed to overpower Jekyll's will, showing up as he pleased. Cornered and persecuted, he turns to an old friend for help, a certain Dr Lanyon, and he revealing his situation to him. Lanyons shock and disgust made Jekyll realize that rather than fearing the death, he feared Hyde more; nevertheless, he was left with no choice but to live out the remainder of his days taking the potion and living in fear until is death by the hands of Utterson. "It was no longer fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me." (Stevenson, page 68)