Compare And Contrast Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Imagine having two people living in one body. One might be more powerful than the other. For Dr. Jekyll, he is a well-respected man around town, but wants a change in his life. Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll’s other half that does many crimes throughout the story. There is a mystery the entire time until the end. In the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson; Dr. Jekyll changes into Mr. Hyde by drinking a potion that he has made himself. Mr. Hyde has many traits that differ from Dr. Jekyll, including being ugly, wicked, and ape-like.

The book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a thrilling mystery written by Robert Louis Stevenson about a man who wants two lives, one good, and one evil.

We meet Mr Hyde, “a pale, dwarfish man” “of no particular age”, and we meet Dr Jekyll, a “large, well-made man of fifty” with a “large handsome face”. The way Stevenson describes them as opposites makes us think that they are infact two people, but as Stevenson builds up the clues throughout the book we realise that they are

In the novel “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde” there is a theme of good vs evil. Good being Dr. Jekyll and evil Mr Hyde they have the inner fight between themselves, because they are the same person.Robert louis Stevenson uses Diction,imagery,and details to contrast the character of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, was written revolving around two main characters, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and Mr. Edward Hyde. The story is about a doctor who experiments with ways to liberate his darker side, but the experiment allows that dark side to come out and take over his body. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are clearly two different personalities because of their physical, mental, and moral differences.

In the Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can be seen as an analogy the good and evil forces that are present in every individual. Dr. Jekyll (who is a well-respected and educated doctor) secretly creates a potion that enables him to express his vile urges without the sense of remorse. As a result of drinking the potion, he forms into a pale, deformed, and younger individual- Mr. Hyde. As Dr. Jekyll's journey of two identities continues, Dr. Jekyll becomes unable to control his transformation of Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde.

The story of Dr.Jeykll and Mr.Hyde. Is an intresting one, in that it presents two characters who are completely different. Or one in the same? Mr. Hyde is accomplished into existence by Dr.Jekyll drinking a potion and then transforming into the evil entity. But even though Mr.Hyde is pure evil, could he be the hidden thoughts or Mr.Hyde. Or is he just a discord formation of anger.

Physically they both are very different. Dr. Jekyll is about fifty years old, he is large, tall, and has no facial hair ("smooth-faced"). Mr. Hyde has gnarled hands and is very short. He acts very vigorously. Even his face looks completely different from Dr. Jekyll.

Hyde in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is also fighting to gain full control over his host. After Dr. Jekyll drinks the potion he created Mr. Hyde is constantly appearing. He wants to be the dominate side of Dr. Jekyll’s body and mind. Mr. Hyde commits horrific acts with no remorse for the people he is affecting. “Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are not that similar. They are both masculine. They have the same mind that shares experiences: “My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, pg. 114)”. They both share Dr. Jekyll’s money: “[He]…came back with the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts’s, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name I can’t mention…( The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, pg. 41)”. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde share living quarters, the servants, the laboratory and the cane: “…[Mr. Utterson] recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, pg. 61)”. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have very general likenesses, while the differences are more significant.

Dr. Jekyll is a honorable man that knows how to act in public and is well mannered. He is a doctor and a good person to be friends with and his personal beliefs are for more liberation and freedom who longs for peace and for more control so to speak. On the other hand Mr. Hyde is a self centered person and can sometimes be damaging to things around him because of his aggressive and violent nature nature. Though they both seem like two completely different people miraculously they are the same person

“These are all very strange circumstances… No, sir, that thing in the mask was never Dr. Jekyll… I give you my bible word it was Mr. Hyde” With this last quote we can see that even though both men totally differ from one another, they still are connected to some little detail that express they do are the same person. Or for some reason was that Jekyll felt the necessity to create Hyde in order to express what he felt in an evil

Completing Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, it is clear there is an odd and unusual relationship between the two main characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two characters can be seen as one person but with drastically different personalities. Dr. Jekyll is an older, well liked, respectable doctor. While, Mr. Hyde is younger, hideous, evil, and dwarf like. The different personalities represent that every man/woman have two personalities inside them.

The persona of Hyde must have existed somewhere in the depths of Jekyll’s subconscious. Even with the potion to distinguish the two physically, the desire for mischief is still present in the doctor’s psyche. He knows Hyde’s actions are wrong, but Hyde represents the insuppressible thirst for the primal pleasures that are not socially acceptable for him to have. Once Jekyll unleashes the beast that is Hyde, by creating and taking the potion, there is inner turmoil and a struggle for power. Jekyll has his moments of “moral weakness,” and lets himself fall into the indulgence of taking the potion, and eventually is not strong enough to keep Hyde from taking over completely. When Hyde commandeers their shared consciousness, Jekyll realizes how chaotic the situation has become.

Dr. Henry Jekyll in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) seems to be an enthusiastic scientist just as Shelley describes Victor Frankenstein. Though Victor Frankenstein reports his own story to Captain Walton, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is narrated by different points of view, mainly from lawyer Utterson, a close friend of Jekyll and in charge of executing Jekyll’s last will. Thus, no background of Jekyll is provided. In fact, it is only mentioned that he lives in a splendid home in 19th century London with multiple rooms and a laboratory, and that he has servants to his dispose.