Similarities Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

“People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”-Francois de La Rochefoucauld. This quote, having been stated in the 1600’s, shows that there was a recognition of different aspects of one person’s personality, even before multiple personalities were studied in the medical world. In 1886, a groundbreaking novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, explored the idea of multiple personalities.

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Importance of Being Earnest, both the main characters live a double life. In the two works, Dr. Jekyll portrays himself and Mr. Hyde and Earnest is also known as Jack. Stevenson and Wilde illustrate dual identities through their main characters and the ones around them are oblivious at the beginning. The two authors depict their dual identity characters in similar and different ways. These two literary works are perfect examples of how individuals perceive someone versus how they actually are.

In Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the two main characters, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde are depicted as contrasting and opposing in personality. In the opening chapters of the novella, Mr. Hyde is portrayed as the epitome of evil, while Henry Jekyll is seen to be genial and kind. Throughout the novella, each character develops and changes; Hyde is perceived to become more evil, while Jekyll to become weaker, distancing himself from his once close friends. In the final chapter of the novella, Jekyll’s personal testimony, when Dr. Jekyll is on his deathbed, he reveals his connection to Mr. Hyde. As the characters change throughout the novella, Stevenson slowly reveals their personalities to the unsuspecting Victorian reader.

The battle between good versus evil is a classic battle, and has been shown in many different texts in many different ways. Both Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” have an overarching theme of good versus evil; however, Stevenson has his characters choose evil, unlike Poe whose character slips into it, also, Stevenson shows the duality of good versus evil in two separate bodies, while Poe has the two sides of human nature inside a single body, although, in both stories the protagonists feel remorse for their actions. The choice between the two sides is a clear difference between the two stories.

Comparing and contrasting Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is pretty easy to do because it is one man with two different lives. Both are totally different, from what they do in public and in their private life, what they look like physically and how they both react mentally. Both personalities have different life motivations, one wants to be successful in his job and the other wants to murder. The contrast between the two personalities is polar opposite of one another which makes comparing and contrasting the two relatively easy.

In this essay the two characters that are going to be compared are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very different physically. They are different mentally as well as morally. Dr. Jekyll has different personalities for when he's in public and when he's alone. On the other hand Mr. Hyde pretty much has no heart.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) shares prominent similarities with Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, written in 1966. Although The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Flowers for Algernon were written almost a century apart, they share similar themes such as identity, dual personalities, and the affect this has on the characters.

Mentally, the two main characters Dr.jekyll and Mr.Hyde were also extensively different. since Dr.Jekyll was a scientist he thought more with reasoning and rationality and acted with caution. The author Stevenson stated in the text, “made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil.” This displays that Mr.Hyde was filled with temper and did not act very

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,

Have you wondered why people are two faced? Well, According to google.com it states that two-faced means that insincere and deceitful. In this amazing book that Sir Robert Stevenson wrote called Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tell about a man that tramped a little girl then kept walking. However; in the book Mr. Jekyll commits a crime then becomes the most wanted in England. But no one knows that Mr. Jekyll is actually Mr. Hyde. To turn into the devious Mr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde creates a potion to turn himself back. But we don't live in the world of them, we see people every day, right? Yes, we do but in how many family members act one way with you then in front of other people they act completely different. Exactly what had happened in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde they are actually the same person but they have different personalities.

As a person who is part of a society, each individual’s view of man has a big impact on their lives. Which worldview should you choose as a Christian? Mary Shelley in Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde present the two views of man’s nature that an individual could have. It is interesting to see the backgrounds that these two stories came from. Mary Shelley was a writer of the romantic era, married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Both virtue and vice is within every man, and it is the balance of these two forces that make one human. The decision to house these traits in separate entities, or to detach them from oneself completely is dehumanizing. Both the protagonists of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde undergo this process when they make the decision to create separate apparitions, or doppelgangers, in order to better fit to the mold of society. As each text progresses both Dorian and Jekyll face a series of changes in both themselves and their counterparts, resulting their loss of control.

In the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, it is demonstrated that, when desire is repressed it will eventually emerge, showing the true duality of man. Sigmund Freud created theories concerning the nature of the unconscious mind, he wrote of the multiple personalities that can be studied, “In the case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the latter of the two exists without the use of the superego, a characterization trait associated with modern psychopath classification, and therefore lets instincts of freedom and temptation engulf his personality.” (Corey Lamb) When Mr. Hyde submerged from Dr. Jekyll, he showed how evil man can truly be if he does not have the superego, which is the part of the psyche that tells the mind what

At the beginning they say that Dr. Jekyll split himself in 2 if he did then they both would be physically the same, but Dr. jekyll was a polite gentlemen so slouching really wasn't an option, and Mr. Hyde was impolite so he most likely slouched making it harder for him to grow and he didn't care about his appearence {{Run-on sentence}}. As for comparing obviously before the split Dr. Jekyll must of had some evil thoughts in him also.