In the Novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, although physically they are the same person, the two are complete opposites. Dr. Jekyll is a well known man and he looks appealing. He likes to be involved in charities and has a good reputation. Mr. Hyde on the other hand is an ugly man who is not very well liked. He is very mean and rude, which is nothing like his alternative personality in Dr. Jekyll. In how they look, how they act, and in their personalities, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are completely different. The first thing that separates them is their looks. Dr. Jekyll is a handsome man who has a sweet and innocent look about him. He is also well-groomed in that he makes sure to take care of himself and how good he looks. This makes people want to be around him. Mr. Hyde on the other hand is an ugly man. He does not try to take care of how he looks and by always having a mean look on his face, it makes him even uglier. This is one reason why people don't like him. He looks evil or angry all the time, and many people try to avoid him because of it. …show more content…
Dr. Jekyll is a good-hearted man and donates to charities. He helps as many people as he can, which makes him even more likable. He is also very neat and organized. Mr. Hyde, however, is mean and rude to people. He doesn’t want to help anyone and only worries about himself. He tends to ignore people in need and only helps himself. He is also very dirty and unorganized. His house was also very messy when people went to visit after the
Although Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde oppose each other in mainly appearance, they do share some similarities in behavior and in thought. Dr. Jekyll is already characterized as a genial host, but Mr. Hyde also has civilized interactions with others. For example, he tries to pay the family of the child he trampled. Although it was for his benefit, it can be thought of otherwise. He also manages to communicate with two other characters in the novel without doing any harm to
In the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are mentally very different. Dr. Jekyll is a man who is well liked in his community, and is regarded as a good doctor. He helps with charities, and has many friends. Jekyll is intelligent, and well spoken. Mr. Hyde is just the opposite. He is mentally unstable, has a violent streak, and is not friendly or sociable. Most people that know Dr. Jekyll are quite confused by the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde. They are so extremely different mentally that it does not seem likely that the two would be friends.
Comparing and contrasting Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is pretty easy to do because it is one man with two different lives. Both are totally different, from what they do in public and in their private life, what they look like physically and how they both react mentally. Both personalities have different life motivations, one wants to be successful in his job and the other wants to murder. The contrast between the two personalities is polar opposite of one another which makes comparing and contrasting the two relatively easy.
Dr. Jekyll wants to live two lives, so he creates a potion to create Hyde, a purely evil, dwarfish, ugly, devilish form of himself that allows him to run around and create chaos without getting caught and ruining his real reputation. Dr. Jekyll has been using Hyde to do things he never could in his own skin, but when Jekyll starts taking advantage of his his new self, Hyde starts to take over. “this incoherency of [Jekyll's] life was daily growing more unwelcome. It was on this side that [his] new power tempted [him] until [he]
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.
During the novella, Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll can be characterized as light and darkness. It is revealed at the end of the novella that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same person and they shared the same personalities. “One of your fellows who do what they call good. Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Black Mail House is what I call the place with the door, in consequence. Though even that, you know, is far from explaining all" (Chapter 1). We can already tell that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are on two different sides of the good/evil scale and that Mr. Utterson's friend has an evil side to him. "He had in his hand a heavy cane, with which he was trifling, but he answered never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill-contained impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on like a madman." (Chapter
If Hyde has been described as Hyde "savage, uncivilized, and given to passion…poorly evolved" (Shubh), then perhaps he represents the true, original nature of man, repressed by society, norms, and conscience. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde suggests that this restrained, amoral side of human nature, once given a chance to escape, cannot be controlled. Even in this 'height of western civilization', Victorian England, this tempting evil can overcome even the most virtuous of men. Jekyll is neither good nor bad, but a man whose deeply repressed urges motivated him to separate, but not remove, the evil parts of his nature. There is a misinterpretation that Hyde is an unwanted byproduct of trying to create pure good, that Jekyll is not in control as Hyde, and that Jekyll doesn't enjoy being Hyde. In fact, Jekyll loves being Hyde, he revels in the freedom that he brings him (Stevenson 54), but the problems with his dual personality starts when he has to face the consequences of his actions. Jekyll has a difficult time balancing Hyde's debaucheries and Jekyll's rational, refined side. However, Jekyll realizes too late that he has indulged in Hyde too much and has let him grow out of control. At the beginning of the novel, Hyde was the “smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll” (Stevenson 57). His more youthful appearance represents how young and free Jekyll feels as Hyde, but also symbolizes how little his personality was seen before Jekyll drank his potion. Early in the novel, Hyde is easily controlled, Jekyll can use his potion to limit how often he transforms into Hyde (Stevenson 56). However, as he starts to morph back and forth, it starts to take more and more potion to control the switches until
In the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the two main characters could not be any different. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well respected doctor, and is well established in the community. He lives in a beautiful mansion, is nicely dressed. He is known for his decency and charitable works. Jekyll did admit to having a dark side, which he was not proud of. He began to experiment with ways to release his dark side from himself. This experimentation would eventually lead to his friends and colleagues disassociating themselves from him. When a longtime friend and medical colleague, Dr. Lanyon was asked about his current relationship with Dr. Jekyll, he stated, "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly
Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Robert Hyde are two very different personalities that are meshed into one, forever changing body. Dr. Jekyll has the personality of a gentle, caring soul; while Mr. Hyde is a mean, evil and cruel troll. As the story progresses on, Dr. Jekyll begins to lose what he was once able to control—Mr. Hyde. The personality and appearance of Mr. Hyde becomes too powerful for Dr. Jekyll to control and eventually, Dr. Jekyll loses himself altogether leaving only Mr. Hyde to be found.
Looking at just the beginning descriptions of Jekyll and Hyde, a conclusion is made that Jekyll is the good because he is admired by many, and Hyde is the bad because he trampled over a young girl for no legit reason. Jekyll is described on page 12 as, “...a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness...” While Hyde is described on page 5 as, “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.” These physical descriptions automatically label who is the good man and the bad man. But taking a closer look, there is
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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.
Dr. Jekyll being an eminent doctor, with a powerful social and educational background, has an extremely sophisticated and refined appearance “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty” (44). As the quote suggests Dr. Jekyll has a majestic and renowned persona. The charity he does for the society, and his living Standards are all visible through the appearance he manifests. On the other hand, Hyde being Dr. Jekyll’s contrivance, to carry out evil purposes has an unattractive appearance and a repellent demeanor. “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable” (35). As per the quote Hyde looks very ugly. His deeds are uglier and compliances suitably to his physical self. Dr. Jekyll is
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