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
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
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.
At the time Stevenson was writing the novella, people were very judgmental of those who looked different. Back then, these 'deformed' people would have been shut away. These reactions from the late 1800s had a huge influence on the attitudes that Stevenson's characters had towards Hyde in the book.
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.
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 is a decent looking man, tall and somewhat distinguished looking. Mr. Hyde is a small man, who has a strange look to him. Most people who see Mr. Hyde would say that he is kind of deformed, but his description is never truly revealed. 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,
Appearances played a huge role in the novel, it was a mystery if Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are somehow related, but have 2 different characteristic traits. One clue that shed
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.
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.
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.
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
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had totally different physical traits. Physically Dr. Jekyll was known as a physician in London who was born into a wealthy family, so he is usually dressed professional and was well dressed. He is a big man, around fifty years old. His face is mostly smooth. Dr. Jekyll's personality makes him appear important in town, even when he hides happiness as a secret. Mr. Hyde appears as just the opposite. Mr. Hyde is hunched over and appears smaller so his clothes are baggy. I picture him like the hunchback of Notre Dame, only uglier. When Richard Enfield describes Mr. Hyde's physical appearance, he says there is something very bad that is hard to explain. Although Mr. Hide appears as though there is some physical abnormality,
The book portrays Hyde in like an animal; short, hairy, and like a troll with gnarled hands and a horrific face. In contrast, Jekyll is described in the most gentlemanly terms; tall, refined, polite and honorable, with long
This novel can be interpreted in many different ways; from the duality of human nature to the loss of control of many things, such as loss of judgment and moral control which plays a huge role in this novel. Dr. Jekyll has the power to have two personalities because of this concoction, and he is fully capable of control his evil side but I don’t believe he wants to completely at first. Yes there is a clear difference between the two characters Dr. Jekyll obviously has a better demeanor and doesn’t commit horrid acts when he is playing this person; however, they are one person. (NCBI) This novel is interesting in the fact the main character transformation is clearly depicted Dr. Jekyll is described as this tall handsome, middle-aged, successful man while Mr. Hyde is described as short, fat, angry man who no one liked. Jekyll and Hyde communicate by writing letters or notes to one another which helps predict what is going to happen next when the next
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde influence each other, Stevenson focuses on individual’s perspective. By illuminating on individual’s conflict and perspective, it makes reader to sympathize Dr. Jekyll’s dilemma. Because of social status, he can’t be free, but when people recognize Mr. Hyde as Dr. Jekyll, it will influence to his social status. Additionally, Victorian era time period affects to author’s perspective in the book a lot. It is unique for everyone to overcome internal conflicts, and the author portrayed it in extreme method. Stevenson ultimately claims that in reality, everyone has