Edward Hyde Alternate Ending

Stevenson writes ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ with the intention of showing the reader the duality of man and explores this through the juxtaposition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this novella, Stevenson also uses the environment and setting of the story to represent the contrast between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Edward Hyde and Henry Jekyll are completely startling persona yet they are a similar person. In addition, Jekyll can not control the high so Mr. Hyde overpowers Jekyll's body. Accordingly, there was no choice of picking no more. As jekyll is saying his last words, it gives the attention of an end “Henry jekyll to an end.” (Stevenson 130).

The manner in which Hyde is first presented attracts the reader’s attention and provokes momentous assumptions from the reader that Mr Hyde is

Hyde’s appearance suggests, his behavior is also vicious. One night he tramples over a child’s body leaving her screaming and a sight “hellish to see” (Stevenson 3). Another night he breaks out in rage and beats a man to death with his cane for no apparent reason. As opposed to Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde has no conscience; he feels no remorse in his actions. Mr. Hyde is the embodiment of pure evil, which is why no one could recognize that this man is actually the other half of Dr. Jekyll.

     In the end, Jekyll decides to let Hyde take over and he gives up. Hyde is able to take control over Jekyll because Jekyll had originally taken the potion for selfish reasons. Jekyll knows that there is a good chance Hyde will take over but he continues with his experiment knowing the risks. He says, “To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become at a blow and forever,

Frequently overlooked in favor of discourse on the duality of man or the dubiousness surrounding the characters’ interactions with Hyde, Jekyll’s portrayal of his transformations into Hyde in Robert Lewis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde has an indubitable parallel to symptoms of drug addiction. This allegory fits seamlessly into the narrative once the reader becomes aware of its presence. Not only does Henry Jekyll present symptoms paralleling drug addiction, his transformations into Hyde and how the other characters in the novel react to them are also typical of situation involving an addicted person. Finally, the ease with which a respectable member of the bourgeoisie lapses into such a degenerative state serves the

The light hurt Wolfgang’s eyes as he open his eyes and looked up into the sky.His eyes strained because he remembers everything, the beating and his experience at Auschwitz.

During the story Hyde’s actions compounds our first impressions of him. Stevenson never says exactly what Hyde takes pleasure in on his nightly forays but it is thought to be of things that would ruin Jekyll’s reputation if they ever came out. There is thought to be strong ties to drugs, alcohol addiction and other dangerous dealings; ‘he had once visited her (the maid’s) master and for whom she had conceived a dislike’. In the very first chapter, Mr Enfield tells his friend, Mr Utterson, a story where he witnessed a strange looking man walking along a deserted street, who ‘trampled calmly over (a) child’s body and left her screaming on the ground’ when they collided.

Throughout the course of the novel, Robert Louis Stevenson uses elaborate diction as well as a variety of syntax in order to convey the ominous and fearful tones in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll’s change into Mr. Hyde every night is a complete mystery to the other characters which causes suspicion while also demonstrating how Jekyll is retreating into isolation. Towards the end, when all is revealed, it shows that everyone has a dark side in them that wants to come out and play.

Jekyll’s outward actions may disguise his internal disarray, but it is clearly depicted in his environment. The habitations of Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde parallel the arrangement of his mind state. While Jekyll’s home is open for all to view and enter, every abode highly associated with Hyde is kept locked and off-limits. Hyde’s residence, or the nether-side of Jekyll’s, is an impenetrable fortress with no windows and which showed every sign of “prolonged and sordid negligence” (8). Jekyll’s private cabinet, which contained the chemical components for bringing about his transformation into Hyde, had a door that was “very strong, the lock excellent,” and which required “two hour’s work” by a locksmith to allow admittance (43). The most obvious representative residence is that of Jekyll’s last refuge in the inner sanctum of his scientific research building. The door had to be repeatedly axed to allow forced entry as “the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship” (38). This area proved to be the most revelatory of Jekyll’s unconscious, containing many “closets” that

While student Ryan Vullo claims “that Mr. Hyde commits suicide”, this is entirely wrong. A human brain contains two hemispheres: the left brain and the right brain. Fredric Myers notes that the left brain contains the “sinister” (135) attitude and a “lower degree of evolution” (135) while the right brain contains the “higher quailites of character” (135) such as “self-control” (135) and “has risen from the savage level” (135). With these definitions, it can be concluded that Jekyll inhabits the right brain while Hyde inhabits the left brain. Jekyll, his side of the brain, and body are known as “rational, civilized, European, and highly evolved” (Showalter 1433).

Then, Utterson watches as Mr. Hyde drinks the concoction “ and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death- there stood Henry Jekyll!” ( Stevenson 55). Jekyll wants to escape being judged by everyone, based on what he does in life, so he escapes that obstacle by using a potion to transform into Hyde, so he can do whatever

So before he was only one person (Jekyll) and through the potion he became two. Without the potion, Hyde would have never existed and Jekyll would have always lived as one full person. But with it Jekyll and Hyde lived in this world together and Hyde became too powerful for even himself to comprehend and no longer could Jekyll could contain what was once him. One of his two selfs over took his first and he killed himself through the evil the he

Being a respected doctor, Jekyll is tied of chains by his social status in the society, for instance if a child is restricted to do something, by his parents. He will eventually find a secretive way to fulfill his needs. In the same manner Jekyll finds Hyde as a solution to satisfy his simple need like drinking. “His every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another” ().As the quote demonstrates Hyde enjoys drinking, which he cannot do as Dr. Jekyll, living in an oppressed Victorian society. The small and harmful temptation like drinking leads to more serious offences. As this boosts, Jekyll’s confidence, he ends up indulging into violent acts, “With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows” (). The simile in this quote delineates Jekyll’s unexpressed desire that erupts through Hyde. His small desires manifests into bigger crimes. Stevenson uses this theory to showcase temptation the evil cause of problems in mankind.

Jekyll drank the potion the first time with negligence and pride. Hyde would come out and go about his way with evil. Nothing really would happen until Hyde learned how to control and over take Jekyll. This continued for weeks. Hyde eventually became stronger than Jekyll and began to take over also becoming more controlling.