How Did Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Change

Dr. Jekyll is the traditional “good guy” type of character. He is well liked and those around him consider him to be a reputable man. In the story, Jekyll states “I only ask you to help him for my sake” (13). Dr Jekyll is showing that he cares about Mr. Hyde and his well-being despite his tainted reputation. Dr. Jekyll cares about everyone regardless of how everyone else feels about them. Jekyll is also a selfless man. He was well known for his charity work and strong religious beliefs, as stated in the book, “…and whilst he had always been known for charity, he was now no less distinguished with religion” (22). His heavy involvement in religion and charities earned him the respect of those around him. Dr. Jekyll’s actions proved him to be a good person.

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]

Jekyll changes himself because he wants to be able to indulge in his desires without consequences. While explaining why he changes himself, he writes, “the unjust might go his way… the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path… no longer exposed to disgrace” (Stevenson, 43). Dr. Jekyll believes that if he can split himself into two identities, he will live a better life. When he splits himself, Mr. Hyde becomes the unjust and indulges in his desires and Dr. Jekyll remains the just one, who acts respectfully and maintains a title. His whole intention of the experiment was to indulge in his cravings and not taint his image.

Dr.Jekyll is aware what he has done to the people he murder because when he woke up he didn't remember what he did. The quote I chose from the book was " who made me ashamed with your cynicism, who made me long for knowledge of evil" he is trying to say that he is no longer good and he was going to stay as Mr.Hyde because he feels good as him and he is a murderer. On the other hand Dr.Jekyll is a polite gentleman and Mr.Hyde was very impolite to people. One can also infer that Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde are basically the same because Jekyll was also having evil thoughts in his mind. Dr.Jekyll saw his ablity to turn into Mr.Hyde who was a killer, a fighter, and a person who wanted to kill his friends and people he knew. Dr.Jekyll was struggling to maintain the balance between good and bad but when he saw himself as Mr.Hyde, he felt powerful, and like he could do anything because when he transformed to Mr.Hyde he wasn't struggling at all because he doesn't have any

Dr. Henry Jekyll has a strong desire to perfect himself by splitting his good qualities from his bad by separating himself into two identities.

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, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde says, “Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look around me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me” (Stevenson 864). The two personalities of Dr. Jekyll are but one; same person but with different characters that are conflicting with each other. The good, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the evil one can be represented as the id and superego based on the theory of Sigmund Freud. Dr. Jekyll behaves through his superego meaning he acts according to the standards of the society; meanwhile, Mr. Hyde represents the id, which does anything he wants without consideration for the reality of the society. In general, Dr. Jekyll can be himself when he is as Mr. Hyde.

Dr. Jekyll character appears as "a large, well made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness". However, when angry "The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and their came a blackness about his eyes". He displays himself as a strong-minded man, as he argues about his will with Mr. Utterson, however he accustoms himself to Hyde, and becomes too weak to oppose him. Mr. Utterson, after meeting Hyde for the first time, starts to feel sorry for his friend, however he does suggest that Jekyll has a dark past: "was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure".

People have various ways people perceive them. People also have different ways they define themselves. Dr.Jekyll himself has two personas, a public persona, and a private persona. Dr.Jekyll is intelligent, evil, and self-absorbed.

Mr. Edward Hyde, "The Good", is a very timid, quiet, and nice man. He knows that Dr. Jekyll is his dual personality, and he knows Jekyll commits murder when he is not in control of his body. Everyone thinks it's Hyde that commits these murders, but it's Jekyll. "Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognize in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike. 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."(page 351) This kind of behavior is odd for Hyde because this isn't Hyde. It's Jekyll, and after this he would kill the poor girl with the cane.

The timid and cordial scientist named Dr Jekyll only appears during the daytime, leaving a clue that he represents the positive side of human nature. During the afternoon,

Jekyll upholds his reputation through the creation of Hyde. As a well-established and respected man in society, Jekyll finds himself overpowered by his desires, which can easily destroy his reputation. Thus, he undergoes an experiment to split himself into two, in an attempt to isolate his two natures of good and evil. Through this, Jekyll’s darker side, Mr. Hyde is formed and acts as the outlet for Jekyll’s desires. Upon the creation of Hyde, Jekyll is slowly succumbing to his evil side and disapproves of humankind’s “curse [ ] that these incongruous faggots” (pg. 62) are bound together as good and evil in one soul. The absence of Hyde from Jekyll’s inner self allowed him to “[come] out of seclusion [and] renew relations with his friends”

The novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a science fiction/horror narrative that follows a lawyer, Mr. Utterson, who is in charge of Dr. Jekyll’s will. He after hearing horror stories about a mysterious man named Mr. Hyde, he worries about the recent change in Dr. Jekyll's will that give everything to Mr. Hyde. The story continues as Mr. Utterson begins to unravel the truth. Stevenson portrays many themes throughout the novel but one stands out which is the contrast between good and evil. Stevenson demonstrates the theme of good and evil through the characters: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Utterson, and Mr. Hyde.

After two weeks, Jekyll hosted a dinner party with his friends. At the end of it, Mr. Utterson held Dr. Jekyll back to talk about the will. Dr. Jekyll laughs at Mr. Utterson's worries. Dr. Jekyll talked to him about a strange relationship between him and Mr. Hyde. Even though he trusted Mr. Utterson, Jekyll refuses to tell him any of the details. Dr. Jekyll asks him, as his lawyer, to make sure the will became

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