Narrative sequence and the whole novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mind map

Clues

• A mystery constructed from outside: Investigation delays the identity explanation
• The will makes the connection…: Will prompts a mistaken blackmail hypothesis

Escalation

• Utterson encounters Hyde: Disturbance resists precise description
• Jekyll claims control: Claimed control becomes unstable
• Carew's murder escalates the threat: Escalation makes concealment harder

Discovery

• The letter creates further…: Handwriting clue exceeds Utterson's inference
• Recovery gives way to withdrawal: Apparent recovery; sealed evidence delays revelation
• The window and the final night: Visible distress leads to laboratory discovery

Explanation

• Lanyon supplies eyewitness evidence: Witness account precedes self-explanation
• Jekyll's statement rewrites…: Retrospective confession answers and complicates
• Chronology differs from…: Events happen before readers learn their causes

Connections

• Clues → Escalation: Each clue is interpreted before the identity explanation.