Jekyll and Hyde

Can someone please explain what is going on in chapter 10. I think I've read it five times now and it still doesn't make any sense.

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aditya nair12344

here are the main points i think.
Jekyll starts by explaining that he has always felt like he had two sides one good and respectable, the other full of dark desires. Instead of trying to balance them, he wanted to separate them completely.

He creates a potion that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, allowing him to indulge in his worst impulses without guilt or consequence at first this feels liberating, as Hyde lets him act however he wants.

Jekyll finds the transformation exhilarating and begins taking the potion more frequently but over time, he starts losing control hyde becomes stronger, and Jekyll finds himself needing to take the potion to return to his normal self.

after Hyde brutally murders Sir Danvers Carew, Jekyll is horrified. He swears off becoming Hyde forever and lives a respectable life again.

Eventually, Jekyll gives in to temptation and takes the potion again but now, Hyde is even more evil than before worse, Jekyll begins transforming into Hyde without even taking the potion, meaning he no longer has control.

Jekyll becomes trapped as Hyde when he runs out of the special salt that made the potion work he realizes the original batch must have had an unknown impurity, meaning he can never make it again. Trapped as Hyde and knowing he will be caught, he writes his confession and prepares for his inevitable end.