The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And A Beautiful Mind

John went through most if not all the symptoms of schizophrenia. John’s wife, Alicia, who was pregnant

In the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson provides insight into the inner workings of the duality that exists within humans. Dr. Jekyll is a well-respected doctor in his community while his differing personality Mr. Hyde is hideous and considered by the public as evil based on appearance. As the novel progresses Dr. Lanyon begins to investigate Mr. Hyde, he begins to realize similarities between both Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll such as their handwriting which results in the discovery that they are the same person. Dr. Jekyll is able to transform himself into Mr. Hyde by drinking a serum he has created which was intended to purify his good. Stevenson stresses the duality of good and evil that exists

Immediately after he goes through with the marriage to Jesse, but he has not let go of Polly. John continues to convince the Hutchinsons the Polly is still alive, to get money from them and also because he is too afraid to tell them she has died. The way he lied however put her sister on edge and led to an investigation of Polly’s whereabouts and John eventually gets arrested for her murder. While he is in jail he tries to commit suicide, initially it’s because he wants to out of the situation and he doesn’t want to face the damage he has caused but he also uses it to plead insanity in court. He does so when the he is called up to the stand and instead of going he “trembles violently, shakes his head and refuses to get onto his feet.”(PG) John is looking for a way out, he does not want to be questioned about the murder because he had not come to terms with it nor does he want to deal with it. He is always looking for a way out, especially when he is

The boys’ grades have slipped, Dean has been skipping practice and school, Sam has quit the debate team and withdrawn from the family, and Mary and John cycle through days of not speaking to one another and constant arguing. John has stopped taking the boys on their male bonding trips and has distanced himself from the rest of the family. He is moody and prone to explosive outbursts for no apparent reason. His performance at work is slipping and he has begun to drink more heavily. Mary has attempted to talk to John and has tried to get him to attend therapy before, but John refused stating, “real men don’t whine about their problems, they suck it up and drive on”. John was ordered to attend therapy by his commander after the Military police were called to his base housing after he and Dean got into a verbal altercation in the front yard and John pushed Dean to the

Primarily, in the beginning of the story John denies the symptons that his wife is going through. It is gathered that John and his family are from the

John is determined to get her better through his medicinal means he uses elixirs and different concoctions to get her better. Also taking her to the vacation style mansion just so she can get away

There are many different interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a whole, as well as many interpretations of Dr. Jekyll’s evil inner persona, Mr. Hyde, in the story alone. Some interpretations of the novel have debated whether Hyde is a monster or simply just a human’s dark side. Hyde proves to be the uncontrollable dark side of Jekyll that every human has in them, whether it is known or not. Hyde proves this throughout the novel because Jekyll becomes addicted to his drug and becoming Hyde, stays morally sane while Hyde does not, and tries to stop the evil.

John constantly attempts to completely control his wife’s life by forcing her to do nothing and stay in one room all day; however, this eventually works to his disadvantage when the narrator goes insane, and John loses all control. The narrator states, “Now why

One feature of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is its theme of dual personality, good versus evil. We see in the story that Dr. Jekyll struggles to keep the balance between both sides of his

Holding in this agonizing way of life, finally pushed John’s wife to snap and pay him back for taking what little bit of life that was left for her. Meanwhile even the other women are brought to agonizing within themselves for not being there to support her.

They become happily married… Almost. After a shooting incident with William Parcher and the Soviets, John begins to fear for his life. Since his behavior was becoming erratic, he was forcefully sedated and taken to a mental facility. He is told that Charles, Marcee, and William Parish were never really there. That they were all in his head. John begins electroshock therapy and months later, is allowed to return home under the pretence that he will take his pills, which he doesn’t. Soon, William Parish returns and John becomes even further mentally unstable. He puts the life of his wife and child on the line, which put strain on him. He eventually decided to not continue to take his pills against the doctors will and Alicia decided to stay with him and support him. Later in life, he returns to work at Princeton and lives out the rest of his days

Alicia is informed by Dr. Rosen that John has paranoid schizophrenia; it is revealed that Charles, Marcee, and Parcher are all part of his imagination. Alicia then explains to John about his paranoid schizophrenia, and John proceeds to take treatment. For 10 weeks, Charles is given insulin shock therapy. He is later released and given medication. He starts to become frustrated with the side effects that the medicine gives him. He secretly stops taking his medication and relapses. After an incident where John almost kills his child, Alicia flees the house. John stops her and informs her that he knows they aren’t real, because Marcee never ages. Even though he is encouraged to start his medication again, he does not, and Alicia supports him.

Alicia ill with a strange disease that the doctor does not know it is and how to treat it. So Alicia's health got worse taking her to the brink of death.

Her marriage is the real bad dream she can’t wake up from or have enough courage to say enough! John is the real reason of why she goes insane at the end of the story. His feministic ways enables her to express how she really feels in reality, so she escapes to this other world in her head.

When John’s family and friends become aware of John’s condition they try and find ways to help him but it’s impossible to force John to snap out of his psychosis. John feels invested in these delusions and they feel too real to shake, to John, his hallucinations of Parcher, Charles and Marcie feel overwhelmingly real. He struggles to differentiate what is real and what is provoked by his schizophrenia. To his wife and friends, it’s easy for them to compartmentalize that these are figments of his imagination. To John, these characters have been integral part of his life and in a way they’ve each individually given his a