The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book about a lawyer, Mr. Utterson, trying to understand the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Since Mr. Utterson is interviewing people to understand Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the novel revolves around them. The two characters are completely different which makes them having a trustworthy relationship is strange for Mr. Utterson to comprehend. Like all people, the characters have mental differences, physical, differences, and moral differences.
Like all people, the characters have mental differences. Dr. Jekyll has mental stability because he always keeps his cool. Mr. Hyde on the other hand will change his demeanor instantly, he is ruthless. Dr. Jekyll is polite with a stronger vocabulary. The two character's mental finesse are complete opposites. Despite their mental differences notice their physical differences.
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In the story everyone finds Mr. Hyde difficult to look at his face. Like in the text Mr Hyde is, "pale and dwarfish, he gives an impression of deformity, and has a displeasing smile. In the novel in Chapters 1-5 the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, didn't really describe Dr. Jekyll but in the text it said he was handsome. Despite their physical differences notice their moral differences.
Like all people, the characters have moral differences. In the novel Dr. Jekyll wants best for everyone. He has a positive moral where he knows what is right and what is wrong for others including himself. This is an example of his positive moral, "Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay and free from any burthen or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor's household." Mr. Hyde's moral is do anything right for himself. When he killed Sir Danvers Carew he did it for his own self
Edward Hyde is described as a small, plainly dressed man with violent and cruel tendencies. Almost everyone who sees him describes him as being deformed in some way, but cannot give a definite reason why. When Mr. Enfield, a relative of Dr. Jekyll’s lawyer, first set eyes on Mr. Hyde, his reaction was much the same. “There is something wrong with Hyde’s appearance,” Enfield says. “I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point”(Stevenson, Ch.1,
Just as the emotions between a parent and toddler can change any second from loving to embarrassed and angry, the two main characters in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, struggle through a family-like relationship. Throughout the novel, the relationship between Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde changes from a close, family-like relationship to one of hatred toward the end of the book. Changes in the relationship between Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde can be seen in: observations by Mr. Utterson, Dr. Jekyll’s state of mind before and after the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, and Dr. Jekyll’s confession.
In the novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ Robert Louis Stevenson explores humankinds conflicting forces of Good and Evil. Through the central characters and the key theme of the duplicity of mankind Robert Louis Stevenson successfully portrays the theme of Good and Evil in the novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
In his novella "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Robert Louis Stevenson explores the dual nature of Victorian man, and his link with an age of hypocrisy. Whilst writing the story he displays the people of the time and what happens behind closed doors. In Jekyll 's suicide note he makes the following observation " I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil." The underlying moral of this novella suggests that all people consist of good and evil, and that they possess the ability to control and acknowledge the darker side of them.
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 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde it is regarded that these identities are two different persons but this is not the case, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one in the same. There is much confusion when reading this literary work by Robert Louis Stevenson; this piece is regarded as horrific and disturbing in many ways. But the biggest twist is when it is reveled to the reader that these two people are the same and that below the surface of Dr.Jekyll is an evil man who enjoys committing evil acts. Mainly that Dr. Jekyll believes he has no choice but to commit these horrid acts because he has no control over is evil side. I don’t believe this is the case, Hyde isn’t a real person and doesn’t exist, nor is he someone who commits
Dr. Jekyll was an intelligent man. His backstory declared a good family and a good upbringing. A man of exquisite dinner parties and his lavish estate. He was a brilliant man that was fascinated with the fact that every man has two sides. Yet even with all his positive attention he still held an insecurity for some of his childhood happenings. Even so he proceeded to make a potion that could bring out the evil side in a man. When he tested this out of himself he became a pure evil being. The actual Dr.Jekyll, and not his evil, counterpart, is a good person indeed. Throughout the novel it tells of the people's respect for him and his work.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a fiction novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde illustrates an investigation of what it is like living in the nineteenth century where appearances, and maintaining your standing of those who are around you is important.
Physically, Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde were total opposites when it came to stature. Dr.Jekyll was a very fragile man. He was not looked upon as an imposing force. In the story the author Stevenson mentioned, “he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice.” This exhibits that Mr.Hyde on the other hand is very striking. He is a short, sturdy, and wide man. Dr.Jekyll did not compare to Mr.Hyde in build.
Hyde's morality didn't exist as compared to Dr. Jekyll. I am not sure if Mr. Hyde even had morals. Dr. Jekyll does realize his moral differences as Mr. Hyde through his "shameful behavior" and "pleasure-seeking half" when he says, "Dr. Jekyll says that he is no more himself when he labors in the light of day at the continuance of knowledge and the relief of suffering than he is at night when he lays aside restraint and plunges into what he calls shameful behavior”. He understands how all human beings are “dual”, so he seeks a potion to separate these dual personalities in order to allow one side to seek pleasure without guilt. He discovers that once the two personalities are separated, the pleasure-seeking side dominates and the socially responsible side cannot control it." Dr. Jekyll seems to have remorse and struggle with what he has done, especially when he says, "I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin." Even Dr. Jekyll himself admits to his moral conflicts around being more wicked when he says "I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are not alike. Mr. Hyde is violent while Dr. Jekyll is calm, cool and collected. Dr. Jekyll is a man in his fifties, Mr. Hyde is much younger: “…Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, pg. 107)”. Dr. Jekyll is handsome; however, Mr. Hyde is ugly. Dr. Jekyll is good and Mr. Hyde is in Dr. Jekyll’s words, “pure evil” (pg. 108). Dr. Jekyll is a kind person who, if he bumped into someone and knocked them down, would apologize and help them up. When Mr. Hyde bumped into the little girl, he did not care and walked all over her: “…[Mr. Hyde] left her screaming on the ground (pg. 40)”. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are not alike, yet they are the
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
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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are different in many ways. One way is Dr. Jekyll is a respected doctor, well established in the community and does charity work.
For example, Dr. Jekyll is described as handsome. The story says he has a friendly and attractive apperance. While Mr. Hyde is said to be ugly and disturbing to look at. Dr. Jekyll lives in a nice house with a warm and friendly vibe. Dr. Jekyll is just more comforting to be around. Mr. Hyde on the other hand, when he is around he lives in a dark, cold cellar.