Alice 's Adventures And The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

Jekyll was able to change from his personality and behavior. Mr. Utterson thought of Dr. Jekyll as a respected “intelligent, reputable” scientist and friend. He and their other friends enjoyed going to his dinner parties and spending time with him. Mr. Utterson asked about his will and Mr. Hyde even though he didn’t want to answer Dr. Jekyll was polite and calm when he answered him. Dr. Jekyll never hurt or killed anyone. As Mr. Hyde he “snarls and is rude” to Mr. Utterson and Mr. Lanyon when they speak to each other. He tramples a little girl, kills Sirs Danvers Carew and bites a taxi cab driver in the neck. All of Dr. Jekyll’s servants were scared of

Dr. Jekyll was a very kind likeable person. But he has his moments when he would have this disgusting side that would come out. He can control his temper way better than Mr. Hyde but I think something that really pushes him can be bad. Mental he was kind of crazy. Physically was a regular kind person.

1). As stated above Dr. Jekyll appears to have dissociative identity disorder and his other personality would be Mr. Hyde. In Stevenson’s book Hyde’s physical appearance is described by the other characters (such as Mr. Einfeild) as “displeasing, something downright detestable.” (Stevenson, 2006, p. 11). They also refer to him as having some form of deformity, although they seem unable to pinpoint said deformity, “He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.” (ibid). Contrarily Dr. Jekyll is regarded as the “pink of the proprieties” (Stevenson, 2006, p. 10). This shows a clear distinction between the two characters, even though they both are physically and biologically one and the same person, they are mentally two completely opposite personalities in contrast with each other. Furthermore, Stevenson’s book also shows that Dr. Jekyll unwittingly gave himself this disorder through his experiments despite being rebuffed and consequently is beyond

Despite the difference between Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, their relationship is complicated and confusing. While it is true that Dr.Jekyll appears as caring, doing charity work and enjoying a reputation as a courteous man, he in fact never gets virtue in the way Mr.Hyde takes evil. Although Dr.Jekyll undertakes his experiments with the intent of purifying his good side from his bad and vice versa, he ends up separating the bad alone, while leaving his former self, his Jekyll self, as mixed as before. Dr.Jekyll succeeds in making his darker side worse, yet as Dr.Jekyll never gets rid of his darkness.

Jekyll has a battle with Mr. Hyde because he had killed someone. “Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped on the roadway” (Stevenson 843). Soon after, Dr. Jekyll looks deadly sick and claimed that he was done with Mr. Hyde and he would no longer be heard of (Stevenson 846). Dr. Jekyll admitted to living the dual identity life as himself and Mr. Hyde. It is arguable that Jekyll was suffering from a mental illness and for long term treatment, he killed

Mentally, the two main characters Dr.jekyll and Mr.Hyde were also extensively different. since Dr.Jekyll was a scientist he thought more with reasoning and rationality and acted with caution. The author Stevenson stated in the text, “made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil.” This displays that Mr.Hyde was filled with temper and did not act very

While there are often figuratively two sides to man, Stevenson has created a literal good and evil side to Jekyll to emphasise man’s duality. Mr Hyde, while essentially is another version of Dr Jekyll, he is the complete opposite of him, in appearance and behaviour. While Dr Jekyll is the embodiment of a Victorian gentleman from the higher classes of society, Mr Hyde behaves very violently and primitively, which underlines the fact that he is from the lowest classes in society. His behaviour can be seen through the juxtaposition of when he “…trampled calmly, over the child’s body…” It emphasises Mr Hyde’s behaviour, and who he is as a person.

Mr Hyde is the regression and more primitive part of Dr Jekyll he is less evolved and this is reflected in his actions. Mr Hyde is a cruel man and a murderer; his actions are vicious and driven by rage. When Dr Jekyll metamorphoses it is not in a positive evolution, his evolution regresses and he becomes something worse not something better both psychically and mentally. “But his love of life is wonderful; I go further: I who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in myself to pity him” (p.69), Dr Jekyll who hates his regression into Hyde is also conflicted by his civilised mental state and is unable to come to a happy ending due to his conflicting personalities, he will not cut Mr Hyde off even though it is what he wishes as it is a way for him to hold on to the qualities he desires to possess even though the idea of becoming Mr Hyde now sickens him. His obsession with dividing his good and evil self only leads to Dr Jekyll being suffocated and taken over by his worst fear; no longer can it be undone.

In the novel The Strange Case of Mr.Hyde and Dr.Jekyll, the character Mr. Hyde, is the evil alter ego of Dr. Jekyll. Mr.Hyde is one who indulges in various undisclosed vices; he is the manifestation of Dr. Jekyll's personality. He is also guilty of committing atrocious acts throughout the novel. The search to determine who Edward Hyde really is constitutes the first half of the novel.

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a major theme in the story is the duality of good versus evil. In the novel, a character by the name of Dr. Jekyll believes in the dual nature of human beings, for he states, “ With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”. Dr. Jekyll was a well respected and well mannered man and eventually gets the urge to set free his “wild side” from his more friendly state that people knew. This is proven when he states, “I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my

A noteworthy theme of “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is the natural duality of human beings. Dr. Jekyll is in a constant struggle to conceal Mr. Hyde from the world because he considers him to be indecent and capable of evil. Throughout the novella we are lead to believe that Mr. Hyde is some sort of deranged killer who has fled London after murdering a man. It isn’t until the final chapter that the reader learns from a note from Dr. Jekyll that Mr. Hyde is a persona of Jekyll. Jekyll claims that he allowed himself to become Hyde when he felt unacceptable impulses. This allowed him to act, free of morals, and later return to being the respectable Dr. Jekyll. This arrangement didn’t hurt his reputation, and satisfied his darker half. Therefore, he would drink a self-created potion to become Hyde whenever he wanted to. Dr. Jekyll clearly had two personalities that were battling to be dominant. The theme of human duality is represented in the upstanding, well liked

Also, in Dr. Jekyll’s description, it says that he had a sincere and warm affection for Mr. Utterson (chapter 3, paragraph 1), but Mr. Hyde is a direct contrast from this by the way he acts in chapter 4. In chapter 4, Mr. Hyde gets infuriated by the old man Sir Danvers Carew just simply asking for directions, and beats the man to death with his cane (chapter 4, section 1, paragraph 1).

In 1837, the start of the Victorian era, Britain began experiencing massive changes in the culture of the nation and in the industrial sector. Cultural works began to move away from rationalism, and became more romanticized and more influenced by mysticism. Privacy became a hallmark of British life as well; the outer walls of citizens’ homes were transformed into a façade by which innumerable mysteries resided behind. This romanticized idea of mystery that seemed to lurk behind the doors of the common, everyday man became a prevalent theme in the works of many writers and artists throughout the time period. Robert Louis Stevenson uses this theme of not knowing the true nature of an individual, as well as the idea of duality, to develop his theme that an evil side lies within every man and that balancing both sides is vital to preservation of ones sanity.

Dr. Jekyll from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was a well-respected scientist who was surrounded by “... all intelligent, reputable men...” but despite this he went on to live two separate lives. (Stevenson 14) Dr. Jeckyll’s economic status enabled him to purchase his home from “...the heirs of a celebrated surgeon” it was clear that finances were not an issue for him (Stevenson 22). Despite being surrounded by respect from society and wealth he acquired from being a scientist, Dr. Jekyll still went on to live a secret life. His secret life was known as Mr. Hyde, who was “...particularly small and wicked-looked…” and completely unlike Dr. Jekyll. (Stevenson 19) Mr. Hyde emcompasses all of the evil personality traits that were instilled in Dr. Jekyll, he lived out these desires by turning into a different version of himself which was kept in secret. Dr. Jekyll's exigency to fulfill the evil characteristics of his personality is what fuels the actions of Mr. Hyde. When his secret was comprised Dr. Jeckyll became frenetic and went into a state of panic to turn back into his perceived normal self without the knowledge of

Dr. Jekyll is to his friends a nice quiet man;, they couldn’t ever possibly imagine from him could come an evil, mean-spirited man named Mr. Hyde. Behind even the friendliest characters lie repressed characteristics. Dr. Jekyll’s close friend, and lawyer, Mr. Utterson, at first is oblivious to the fact that Hyde is Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego.