Interests in math and science. Mr Hyde had developed a potion that allowed him to turn into Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll found a way to separate his good side from his darker side, by transforming himself into a monster free of consciences. But he later found that he was turning into more and more into Mr Hyde. He started turning into Mr. Hyde in random places, the transformations got worse and worse.
Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired;” (Page 93). When it says, “Jekyll was no worse”, it means that Hyde was the one who did all the physical action, but since Jekyll knew what was going on and didn't say anything it makes him as bad. Jekyll wanted to live a double life and do all the bad things he wanted to do as Hyde so he doesn't ruin his reputation. Even though Jekyll didn’t physically do anything so he wouldn’t ruin his reputation he still did something wrong. When people found out about the murder Hyde committed they blamed Jekyll.
In the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde do not share many of the same characteristics physically, mentally or morally. Their appearances are different. Morally they are opposite as well. Dual personalities is the major theme for this book such as good versus evil and right versus wrong. In this book, one can conclude that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are indeed one person but two different personalities.
Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, it is discovered that in the end Jekyll and Hyde are the exact same person. Jekyll revealed that he liked being in Hyde’s body because he was able to get away with murder. He reveals that by saying “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.” (Stevenson, 78) Jekyll is the perfect example of a Doctor who was considered to be well-respected, and passionate about his career.
In other words, the criteria for good and evil are subjective; they are determined by the moral and cultural standards of societies. Consequently, because each person perceives good and evil differently, no single point of view is the absolute truth. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the dichotomy of good versus evil torments Dr. Jekyll. Confronted by his darkness and the pressure of social expectations, Dr. Jekyll invents a potent drug that transforms himself into Mr. Hyde, his malicious
Jekyll wanted to release his inner self, but in doing so, he released a madman that murdered Sir Danver Carew. Hyde also indirectly caused another death in the novel; when Dr. Lanyon seen the transfiguration in the park and Hyde insisted that he go retrieve the ingredients for the potion to turn him back to Jekyll, he was traumatized by the whole incident. Not only did the appearance of Hyde begin to consume Jekyll, but also Jekyll began to grow weak and sick while Hyde grew stronger (Moss). Jekyll knew that Hyde was bad, but in the end, the power of Hyde and the overwhelming guilt from Hyde’s choices was too
He eventually discovered a chemical concoction that will cause him to feel and to see a separation of his two sides. Chemical concoction makes him turns into Mr. Hyde which is a man who is all bad and all evil. He also needs to perform a second experiment to make sure he can turn back to Dr. Jekyll. It is successful of switching his identity by drinking the potion. He becomes more and more obsessed with becoming Hyde.
After drinking a potion, he could change into Hyde, a person with no conscience. Soon, Jekyll is metamorphosing without taking the potion. Hyde later kills Sir Daniels Carew by beating him to death. Hyde continues to struggle with Jekyll and Jekyll continues to struggle with Hyde. In the end Dr. Jekyll must decide if he should take the life of both he and Mr. Hyde or if he should face the consequences for the evil that HE ultimately has committed.
Within the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, there stands a strange case of good versus evil. However, this story has no great villain or even a valiant hero, it has only a man fighting with his vices and dark urges and desires, which grow darker, more morbid and perverted at the novel goes on. Then, as a means to free himself of such darkness and “evil,” the man creates an antidote or rather cocktail of drugs to help him in such matter. Only problem being, the cocktail separates his psyche in two and with the two sides released from each other. The darkness the bad is allowed to grow and lash out unattended and unblocked.
Though Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ends abruptly, the final section, a letter from Dr. Jekyll, aptly concludes the story. The story is told through an outside perspective, with the strange happenings seeming a mysterious puzzle. In the final section, the disjointed events are explained and both the characters and the reader understand what transpired with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The conclusion of the story reveals the relation between the events the characters witness.
“Hyde” is just Jekyll, having transformed his body into something unrecognizable". Jekyll does not make the potion to take away all evil away from himself. He created a potion that would allow himself to express his feelings without feeling guilt and facing any consequences effecting his respectable self. Dr. Jekyll in the novella is a respected professor and well known around the town. While Hyde on the other hand is almost the complete opposite.
Dr. Jekyll is viewed as a smart man with a lot of knowledge, however, due to Jekyll not being satisfied with his life, he is determined to get more out of his live and is willing to do anything to fulfill his determination. Dr. Jekyll expresses this when he states, “[A] grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside… [t]here was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.” (Stevenson 57).
Through the character of Dr Jekyll character, we can see an unwillingness of entering the social order, which is made evident by Mr. Hyde, his direct opposite. At first he drinks the drug in order to enter into a realm that has no social mores, no laws from the father to follow. He assumes a Mr. Hyde, the new identity so as to test those boundaries. Through the “monster culture” we can establish that Dr Jekylls unconscious desire is personified in Mr. Hyde, and this will enable us to see Dr Jekyll as the illusion of reality and he was not whosever he claimed to be. He possessed unconscious desires which he had to let out.
The theme of this book is the struggle society deals with every day on whether do the right or wrong thing. Everybody struggles with their inner evil thoughts telling them to do the wrong thing and their conscience telling them to do the right thing. Dr. Jekyll deals with this struggle differently than most, he creates a new human being to try to and separate his his inner evil thoughts from his conscience. Otradovec gives his opinion on this by saying,"The divide between good and bad, as between Jekyll and Hyde respectively, should not be upheld so strictly. Jekyll is neither a good nor bad man, his only big sin is that he wants to go unpunished for everything and anything he does" (1).
Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the universal theme of the duality of human nature. In the novella, Stevenson describes a quiet and well-respected lawyer named Gabriel Utterson who becomes involved in a strange case regarding his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the unusual Mr. Hyde. Hyde’s hideous actions raise questions and concerns for Utterson but Dr. Jekyll pleads with the attorney to leave the man alone. Eventually, the author reveals the wicked Mr. Hyde as Dr. Jekyll who transforms himself into Hyde by drinking a potion he ironically created to rid man of evil. Jekyll eventually surrenders his old self to his evil counterpart.
