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Well, let’s compare their way of living. Hyde lives in a dingy dirty town, the front of his house is two story’s high, of nothing but ugly brick and the door was without a knocker or bell with the carvings of a schoolboy’s knife in it. Now the inside, as described by the lady who answered the door for Mr. Newcomb and the lawyer, was very nice with the finest of silver plates and furnished with beautiful seats and dressers. On the other hand, Dr. Jekylls house was two…
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At this point in the story, Dr. Jekyll has not completely accepted Edward Hyde as being a part of him. He recognizes that Edward Hyde is “pure evil” but needs further proof that so much evil can be part of a person that is good. The story describes his transformation after drinking the potion as mental, physical, and spiritual. The spiritual part is very interesting because Dr. Jekyll in part always thought he was a fraud and even though he did walk the line of good he expected he was not truly good. I think Hyde was a manifestation of his thoughts of impurity because deep down he believed to have a good soul he must never have impure thoughts. I think this was his true…
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Utterson is a “lover of the sane and customary sides of life,” but the mystery of Hyde touches his imagination. He believes that if he can only set eyes on Hyde, the mystery will roll away. Even Jekyll himself says, “My position . . . is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” The irony is that all Stevenson has to work with is words; all that Jekyll can use to account for Hyde is words. Even Jekyll’s words are hidden, however, as if within nesting Chinese boxes, in the letter within the letter that reveals…
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Hyde was his bad side and his pure side, which everyone came to know, wasn’t what Jekyll really wanted. He wanted to let Hyde out and to do so he had to take drugs, like Sonny did. Jekyll’s surface was a proper man but his true identity was what lied beneath him and what he allowed to surface when he conjured up his potion. Letting out this carnage side made Jekyll feel alive, with no remorse of what he was doing. The aliveness he felt was the disregard of his culture and their rules, and this is where he found himself happy. The disobeying Hyde was Jekyll’s true identity and how he really wanted to feel. Have you ever one day been faced with the opportunity to break cultures rules and done it? Did you feel exhilarated? Ones identity will never change. When they figure out what the true inner person is that, whether its a naughty person or a great person is what surfaces when the person is alone or set with a straining situation. The Jekyll side is what culture wanted to see, but the true identity of Jekyll was the disobeying side of…
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The novella follows the internal struggles of a man called Mr Utterson who sees his old friend Henry Jekyll suddenly change his habits, his friends, his life. Mr Utterson seems to vainly try and uncover the connection between the reclusive Dr Jekyll and the strange, malformed, evil Mr Hyde. The final connection is revealed when their mutual friend Dr Lanyon witnesses some awful change in Dr Jekyll which causes him such horror…
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Not everyone is perfect. We all have weaknesses and character flaws. Some people drink too much; others smoking or spending too much money. Many people lead a seemingly moral and righteous life, but have secret, dark thoughts or desires. Mr. Hyde has all these flaws and he flaunted them openly. Actually, when you examine his character on a deeper level, the “respectable” Dr. Jekyll is actually and deeply flawed and immoral character. Mr. Hyde is just another part of him, his immoral subconscious, who, because he is given free reign, does the immoral things that Dr. Jekyll couldn’t do because of his reputation. The greatest flaw that Dr. Jekyll has starts with the incident in his laboratory. He experiments with chemicals and discovers another side of himself. Stevenson characterizes Dr. Jekyll as a desperate man dependent on his symbolic drug to escape the moral confines of Victorian society.…
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Stevenson says,”Yes, I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde. How was this to be explained? I asked myself; and then, with another bound of terror-how was it to be remedied?” (Stevenson 72). Jekyll could not control his transformation and was worried he would transform at a bad time and it created stress within him and his only thought was wondering how these transformations could be kept under control. Stevensons also said, “The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll. And certainly the hate that now divided them was equal on each side” (Stevenson 81). Jekyll and Hyde hated each other. Hyde was growing stronger and taking over Jekyll. Although Jekyll tried to stop it, instead he let it consume him. The creative author also writes, “The hatred of Hyde for Jekyll was of a different order. His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide” (Stevenson 82). This quote is talking about Jekyll in the novel and how he gained stress and anxiety from not being able to control his transformations caused him to commit suicide to stop the stress and tension. When an old friend of Jekyll's named Lanyon found out that Jekyll and Hyde were the same person, he became so overwhelmed with stress that he died of shock. Lanyon in Stevenson's novel said, “My life has shaken to its roots; sleep has left me;the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die, and yet I shall die incredulous” (Stevenson 63). The shock and tension from finding out new news after knowing Jekyll for so long was too much to take in and Lanyon later died in the novel. In the end of the novel Jekyll and Lanyon both die of overwhelming stress that overtakes them and controls…
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Jekyll desire to be accepted in society transforms into a wanting to dissect and separate the evil from himself and add that evil into another persona of his being; a desire that has been repressed for a long time. Dr. Jekyll’s reasoning for another being of himself to exist was because of the morbid sense of shame that he felt for the desires that lie deep within him (103). Dr. Jekyll did not want others to know of the thoughts that he had on the other side of his personality. He knew of the good and ill that was divided in him and couldn’t help it any longer than to let the ill of his spirit break free (104). Dr. Jekyll had the knowledge of the good and evil that resides in every person’s soul; no longer could he allow the desire of his other half eat away at the good that was left. Dr. Jekyll as Mr. Hyde was the only way that his desires of fulfilling the evil within him could be satisfied. Through the separate and secret creation of Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego, he still had the ability to fit into society like every other person. Mr. Hyde takes away the unacceptable behaviors that society frowns upon. A strive for perfection is sustained in these…
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Furthermore the hissing is a function of a snake, and as snakes are seen as evil and devious animals also because of Adam and eve, and temptation it fits the perfect description for Mr Hyde. Also Hyde represents the evil side of Jekyll dual personality, and Jekyll is the good side, and Hyde is known through He also strikes those who witness him as being deformed -- "colourless and dwarfish" and simian like. He is both monster and shadows another self not only for Jekyll but for all the I assume upright Victorian bachelors of the story who recognize his deformity and for who he becomes both mischievous sprite and deaths knell.…
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