Similarities Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Dr. Jekyll is benevolent and pleasant in his social interactions. He attempts to cover up his darker self by creating a courteous public persona. Everyone has a different persona when they are outside in the eyes of the public and when they are inside. Through Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll reveals his destructive side. Transforming into Mr. Hyde gives Dr. Jekyll a freedom to act and behave without caring about the public’s opinion or about the consequences of his actions. Dr. Jekyll is captured and locked up deep inside, he appears reasonably appropriate on the exterior but his inner reflections drives him towards immorality. As Dr. Jekyll privately turns into Mr. Hyde, not only is his appearance transformed, but also his behavior. This can be a similar caparison on people in today’s society. People with high status or popularity are always being watched with every move they make. If they make one small mistake, then that will look bad on

If Hyde has been described as Hyde "savage, uncivilized, and given to passion…poorly evolved" (Shubh), then perhaps he represents the true, original nature of man, repressed by society, norms, and conscience. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde suggests that this restrained, amoral side of human nature, once given a chance to escape, cannot be controlled. Even in this 'height of western civilization', Victorian England, this tempting evil can overcome even the most virtuous of men. Jekyll is neither good nor bad, but a man whose deeply repressed urges motivated him to separate, but not remove, the evil parts of his nature. There is a misinterpretation that Hyde is an unwanted byproduct of trying to create pure good, that Jekyll is not in control as Hyde, and that Jekyll doesn't enjoy being Hyde. In fact, Jekyll loves being Hyde, he revels in the freedom that he brings him (Stevenson 54), but the problems with his dual personality starts when he has to face the consequences of his actions. Jekyll has a difficult time balancing Hyde's debaucheries and Jekyll's rational, refined side. However, Jekyll realizes too late that he has indulged in Hyde too much and has let him grow out of control. At the beginning of the novel, Hyde was the “smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll” (Stevenson 57). His more youthful appearance represents how young and free Jekyll feels as Hyde, but also symbolizes how little his personality was seen before Jekyll drank his potion. Early in the novel, Hyde is easily controlled, Jekyll can use his potion to limit how often he transforms into Hyde (Stevenson 56). However, as he starts to morph back and forth, it starts to take more and more potion to control the switches until

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 order to make his point more believable, it is important that Jekyll includes a back story explaining exactly why he created Hyde to begin with. Jekyll is an intelligent, well-respected man in his community with large sums of money, yet he turns himself into Hyde, who is hated by nearly everyone upon first-glance. While this is a confusing state of events, Jekyll gives a historical precedent to facilitate his explanation. In the opening of his letter, Jekyll gives an in-depth description of the pressures he faced being born “to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow men, and thus, as might have been supposed.” (47). Being born into wealth and respect gave Jekyll no chance to escape societal pressures, which were exceptionally high during the Victorian Era. Jekyll continues by asserting that he “found it hard to reconcile with [his] imperious desire to carry [his] head high and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that [he] concealed [his] pleasures.” (48). Jekyll’s conflict between societies expectations and what he really wants to do leads him to find a solution: Hyde. When Jekyll first turns into Hyde, he is in awe because he

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,

Hyde is the pure evil other side of Dr.Jekyll. After an interest turned into an experiment, this nefarious character was born. Even though in a way he always existed, he was never extracted into his purest form. After Hyde is put into play, he commits a series of evil acts. Even going as far as killing someone for being his opposite in nature. The despriction of Mr.Hyde is a small angry man. His size most likely symbolizes his correlation with how much of Jeykll he

Physically, they looked differently. Mr. Hyde was an ugly man. According to Mr. Enfield, "he gave me one look so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running." Mr. Enfield goes on to describe him as having a deformity of some sort. Mr. Utterson also described him as being ugly. He said Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, and he also agree that he looked dwarfish. Mr. Hyde carried a displeasing smile with a husky voice. Mr. Utterson also labeled him as "the man seems hardly human; something troglodytic." He also carried a look of "Satan's signature upon his face." Lanyon, " his clothes... We're too enormously too large for him in every measure the trousers hanging on his legs... the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders." His physical appearance scared everyone he came in contact with.

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is a satirical novel. In the novel an unnamed narrator struggles with insomnia and the ability to cope with an emasculated, self-centered, materialistic society. Which eventually leads him to develop a split personality named Tyler Durden. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a man named Dr. Jekyll is able to concoct a draught to split the good and evil of a man, but they develop into separate personalities in the same body.

Degeneracy was not just confined to the lower classes, criminals, and other dregs of society, but applicable to the upper class as well. Jekyll was a well renowned doctor, but he still grew impatient of having to be morally upright all the time. He seeks to rid himself of these burdens by releasing his Other self. According to Jekyll's narration, both he and Hyde existed before the discovery of the salt that enabled them to become seperate: "I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both" (Stephenson 49).

And feels no remorse for doing the deed but he is scared of getting executed for the murder and is put in a weakened state for that. Also people think that Mr Hyde has some sort of deformed personalty or disorder affecting him. There is also a dramatic appearance deference that fits his personalty when Dr. Jekyll turns into Mr. Hyde Jekyll's clothes are to big and he has a lot of energy which could be from the transformation all in all they are the same person in one body.

The novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book was first published in 1886 in England and it brought lots of success to the author. One thing lots of people get mixed up is the similarities and differences of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Curiosity Killed the Doctor Most everyone has two distinct sides to their personality: a good side and a bad. Most of the time, the good prevails and trumps the urge to succumb to the temptations of the worse side. But what happens when the curiosity and power of the “evil” side takes control? That is where The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson can serve as a reminder not to give into the wrong side of human nature.

The two are very different physically. Dr. Jekyll is considered to be more handsome and respectable while Mr. Hyde is seen as ugly, disturbing, and disgusting. Mr. Hyde is also said to be Hairy, deformed, and very dwarfish with Dr. Jekyll being the exact opposite. They are also very different mentally. Dr. Jekyll is considered to be a genius scientist while there was not much said about Mr. Hyde's mental state but we can assume he, "wasn't very bright" by his actions in the story. And last but not least, they are both very different morally. Dr. Jekyll represents good with his kind nature and gentleman like actions,

The Other Side For generations, readers have been enchanted by the work of authors Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson, and by their books, such as Heart of Darkness and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In each novel, the reader meets characters and their “others.” In Heart of Darkness, Marlow's other is Kurtz. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll’s other is Mr. Hyde. Both Marlow and Dr. Jekyll are described as “good” men, who seem to stand above ordinary men.

Dr. Jekyll was a respected doctor and Mr. Hyde was evil. Physically, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very different because Mr. Hyde looked deformed and that made him terrifying. Hyde is called a “disgustful curiosity” and “hardly human” because he is deformed and also disabled, that causes fear of him, while no one would fear Jekyll. Mentally Jekyll was very intelligent and Mr. Hyde was crazy and couldn’t be controlled. Eventually Jekyll couldn’t prevent himself from turning into Hyde.