ry Jekyll is a man with a deeply divided sense of his private self and public self. In his public persona, he is a benefactor, a doctor, a long-time and good friend, and a scholar. In his private persona he yearns for more liberty (defined as freedom from restraint, control, obligation, interference or restriction) to indulge in activities that would bring him reprimands or even public disgrace if his actions were to be known. Utterson describes him as being about fifty years old; a large, tall man without facial hair ("smooth-faced"). He also says Jekyll is devoted to charities and to his religion. Mr. Hyde is an individual with only one part to his nature: He is only self-serving and destructive, although there is a contradicting duality …show more content…
He is also imbued with fear of retribution because he fears being executed for the murder he committed so earnestly that he becomes as a weeping child. [This might present a bit of an inexplicable paradox between being brazenly brutal and yet tremblingly fearful if Stevenson had not introduced the duality of viciousness and fear in the incident with the little girl in the street.] Those who have seen Hyde assert that they feel a deformity to his person or nature though they can 't define a physical cause for it. Hyde inspires a raging feeling in people who have to deal with him for any reason. It 's a point of debate as to whether Stevenson is suggesting by this reaction that a Hyde-like duality lurks just below the surface of everyone 's character or whether he is suggesting that Hyde 's inhumanity inspires humanely protective rage in those who possess humanity. The incident with the little girl might suggest the latter (second) suggestion. Hyde has gnarled hands. He is so small in stature that when the transformation occurs turning Jekyll into Hyde, the clothes on Jekyll 's body overwhelm Hyde. His face is unlike Jekyll 's in all respects. He walks and acts with a vigorous speed and energy. All in all, Hyde presents a repulsive sight and
Hyde is a nasty individual who causes destruction everywhere he goes. Utterson, an astute individual who can understand people’s behavior very well, is instantly dismayed by the beast that is Hyde saying, “All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,” (Stevenson 12). Pure evil is a very strong phrase and carries a lot of weight but according to Uterrerson it is true and Hyde is worth saying it about. On top of this, it is practically impossible not to find one good quality about someone but since Hyde was so jaded, disturbing, and revolting Utterson, a great judge of character, could not find any good in his life. Hyde is the pure embodiment of what a person becomes like on drugs, he causes havoc in the lives of innocent people and also his own.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, a man having a double personality disorder that who can walk two vessels spotlights the human nature’s duality. Robert Louis Stevenson develops themes of hominid dualism amid a narrator’s “factual” tone and the narrative’s sketchy mood set to a sordid scene such as late Victorian London. The savant discovers Mr. Hyde over Enfield, who bethinks something not “like a man”, rather “like some damned Juggernaut” (Stevenson 3) trampling a girl one night. Stevenson never unfolds Hyde’s honest image, either to emulate the pedestrians’ thoughts who encounter Hyde and struggle to decode the monster’s appearance, generally speaking with a broad, horrid, distrusting, or repulsive sensation immediately in his presence, or to let the reader use their own imagination. Retaining a dreadful being’s need for secrecy, Hyde becomes the skeleton in the cupboard, preferring night for life and staying in a lush room set in a clammy, forbidding building.
Adhering to Lombroso 's beliefs is Mr. Hyde, a man who gives Enfield "a strong feeling of deformity, although [he] couldn 't specify the point" (Stevenson 5). Stevenson introduces this man to readers as someone so despicable he can run over a young girl without looking back. Based on the crowd 's and Enfield 's reactions to Mr. Hyde, his appearance is as deplorable as his behavior. This reaction emphasizes the power appearance has in creating assumptions. These people have only just met Mr. Hyde, but this singular action and his appearance are enough for the crowd to make judgments.
He does this to establish a black and white contrast between one who has the ability to withstand his desires and one who dwells on the possibilities of diving good and evil. In the beginning of the novella, he shows Utterson to be “austere with himself” (1) and substituted gin to subdue his taste for alcohol. Utterson, being much older than Jekyll is gifted with his ability to retain self-control, whereas Jekyll is more imaginative and dreams of the impossible. Essentially, Stevenson contrasts Utterson and Jekyll’s vulnerability to desires to demonstrate what others do in order to control their
in McCrystal). McCrystal explains that Hyde’s abnormal character sets him apart from societal norms. Stevenson describes Hyde’s form as incomprehensible a multitude of times, and refers to him with an “impression of deformity without any nameable malformation… I read Satan’s signature apron a face” (Stevenson 14). Hyde’s impression on society has such a great impact that he has constructed himself to resemble the devil. Jekyll creates this monster to offer himself the freedom to pursue his desires, but he never thought his inner thoughts were of this potency.
There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. 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, 1886, p. 5) The quotation above is important to the book because the initial description of Hyde given by Enfield is consistently given by others as well. As Hyde is a being of pure evil, he sets others on edge yet his creation is entirely scientific.
Mr. Hyde is the embodiment of Jekyll’s repressed homosexuality. Firstly, Hyde’s victims reflect Jekyll’s repressed feelings. The first victim is “a girl of maybe eight or ten” (Stevenson 3). His act of trampling the young girl shows his resentment toward women. This is because the Victorians try to force their views onto him and that he should be
Jekyll, is between his normal self, where he is completely sane, with a good balance between his id, ego and super-ego, he is what could be described as the average person, there is nothing special about him, he is average. Whereas Mr. Hyde is very much the opposite, he is wild, impulsive and completely mental. His id, ego and super-ego is completely out of balance, Freud would probably say that Mr. Hyde’s id is way more domi-nant than it should be. The id is described to be “the primitive and instinctive component of personality”. A person with a much more dominant id, wouldn’t care for others, they would just focus on their own needs and goals, and not care for anything or anyone standing in their way, this is also what characterize murderers and serial
if he did do this splitting of himself, there wouldn't really be any physical difference since its himself. They do act different. Dr.Jekyll is a very polite man. Mr. Hyde is not a polite person himself. This effected the appearance of these two men.
In the story “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by R.L.S three characters represent Freud’s psychoanalysis of the id, ego, and superego. Freud describes id as the devil sitting on your shoulder or the evil side. In addition, the superego is a human moral conscience. Finally, the ego is a good balance between good and evil. The characters in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde represent Freud’s psychoanalysis by each other's character have a different personality as Utterson happens to be good is he is the superego, Jekyll is the ego because he is most like a human and is both good and bad, and Hyde is like a devil and bad so he represents the Id.
However, Mr. Hyde is the complete opposite- he commits evil acts against innocent people such as the murder of Carew in the novel, which means that he is the 'evilness' in the novel. A reason why we may act like this is that of Freud’s Psychodynamic analysis theory where there are three stages- Id, Ego, and Superego.
But in this quiet personality, is a lively young playboy communication field. He was tied to his reputation achievement character, until one day his research was successful. He turned into Mr. Hyde, he is like a cage beast. He killed people, but very carefree.
Hyde seems to appear much younger than Jekyll also. Jekyll in this novella uses Hyde to get away with all the horrific things he wants to do such as murder. Jekyll are the same but at the same time they are not. Jekyll creates Hyde because he does not want to live without consequences, and he wants to hide his evil intentions.
Robert Stevenson uses his protagonist’s, Dr. Jekyll, person versus self conflict to illustrate this point. Throughout the text, the reader learns that Dr. Jekyll was born into good fortune and was well-respected in society. However, the reader learns that it was not enough for him. He craves irregularities and he seeks a way to experience both sides of his identity without harming his reputation, which leads him to immoral experiments that bring out Hyde. To be specific, Jekyll states the following, “Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame” (Stevenson 55).
Through the story we can see that this story is based on humanity and desires, it shows those sins and ugly part that lurking beneath the surface, it gives us a worldview of the early 19s: the pressure of society and Glamorous appearance but ugly inside. Hyde,just like the sound of his name, it kind of represents the heavy spect of man which the Victorians felt the need to "hide", it shows that he have to hid in the society, and the inside of human beings, as Utterson once talked about his name,he said that : "Well, if he is Mr. Hyde, I will be Mr. Seek." ( form chapter 1) Through the book, we can tell that Dr. Jekyll is a man that full of goodness, as the book describes: he is the most well know goodman in the town. In the other