Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Differences

This shows both good and evil in Henry Jekyll, he is good in the sense that he wouldn’t put his profession to shame yet evil as although it is Edward Hyde who indulges in his pleasures, it is still Dr. Jekyll’s soul who is directing these actions. In the novel, although Dr. Jekyll does represent good he is not to represent only good but also evil.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Dr.Jekyll had more of a classy, clean house while Mr. Hyde a house that was more filthy, squalid house. The difference between the two houses shows the vast personalities that they both hold as individuals. That Dr.jekyll has tip-top and sanitary personality, but Mr. Hyde has a negligent and unclean personality. Morally, Dr.Jekyll is more formal than Mr.Hyde.

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.

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

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,

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.

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

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

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.