Dr Jekyll As A Tragic Hero
Dr Jekyll as a tragic hero
Dr Henry Jekyll is a complex character in Robert Louis Stevensons novel “dr Jekyll and Mr hyde”. He shows many aspects of a tragic hero. But to link him to the aspect of a tragice hero one must first decide what a tragic hero is.
A tragic hero is normally a person with a lofty place in society with either heroic or potentially heroic qualities who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy. This character falls from grace and may bring hurt to others.
Dr Jekyll can be described as a tragic hero as in henry jekyll’s full statement of the case, Jekyll explains how he came from a well established in the community and is known from his decent charible works “I was born in the 18- to a large fortune, endowed beside with excellent parts inclines by nature—with every gauntee of an honourable and disguised future” this means he was lofty in society and was born into a wealthy family whom brought Jekyll up into the upper-middle class life from a very young age .He was also described as one of the best doctors in the country and lived in the richest part of London. He also was a very sociable person and had many friends that includes Mr utterson and Dr layon he breaks his frenship with dr layon as dr layon descirbes is scienfic experiments as “unscienfic balderash” ‘ but later on sees the success of dr jeylls experiments in dr Layons narrative when Mr Hyde turns into dr Jekyll using vivid and violent language, which later is the cause of his death.
One of dr jeylls tragic flaw is that he has an addictive personality thihs is shown when hegets addicted to the complex potion that causes him to reform into his other evil side which goes by the name Mr hyde. This later causes is downfall as at a point hyde finally and inalterably begins to dominte the Jekyll-hyde releationship when he begins to change spontatously without the potion “and this brief condescension to my evil
Dr Henry Jekyll is a complex character in Robert Louis Stevensons novel “dr Jekyll and Mr hyde”. He shows many aspects of a tragic hero. But to link him to the aspect of a tragice hero one must first decide what a tragic hero is.
A tragic hero is normally a person with a lofty place in society with either heroic or potentially heroic qualities who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy. This character falls from grace and may bring hurt to others.
Dr Jekyll can be described as a tragic hero as in henry jekyll’s full statement of the case, Jekyll explains how he came from a well established in the community and is known from his decent charible works “I was born in the 18- to a large fortune, endowed beside with excellent parts inclines by nature—with every gauntee of an honourable and disguised future” this means he was lofty in society and was born into a wealthy family whom brought Jekyll up into the upper-middle class life from a very young age .He was also described as one of the best doctors in the country and lived in the richest part of London. He also was a very sociable person and had many friends that includes Mr utterson and Dr layon he breaks his frenship with dr layon as dr layon descirbes is scienfic experiments as “unscienfic balderash” ‘ but later on sees the success of dr jeylls experiments in dr Layons narrative when Mr Hyde turns into dr Jekyll using vivid and violent language, which later is the cause of his death.
One of dr jeylls tragic flaw is that he has an addictive personality thihs is shown when hegets addicted to the complex potion that causes him to reform into his other evil side which goes by the name Mr hyde. This later causes is downfall as at a point hyde finally and inalterably begins to dominte the Jekyll-hyde releationship when he begins to change spontatously without the potion “and this brief condescension to my evil