In The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson

Eventually due to the inaccuracy of his ‘unscientific balderdash’ (as spoken by Lanyon) something goes wrong and his changes from Jekyll to Hyde become more irrepressible, ‘My blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy. Yes I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde.’ He lacks the power or strength to stop these changes. Hyde seems to perform the metamorphosis without warning or consent. I believe this to be significant to the fact that Hyde is becoming stronger and less willing to do as dictated, and because he, the inner demon, has been exercised at such a severe extent he had become a bigger part of Jekyll and so containing the inner beast becomes harder. Stevenson writes ‘the powers of Hyde seemed to grow with the sickliness of Jekyll.’ I do not think he wrote this meaning a literal sickness but was instead talking about the mental deterioration of Jekyll. The distinction of the unplanned and unwelcome changes between Jekyll and Hyde is symbolic to the fact that as the lines forming the distinction of the personality of Hyde and Jekyll began to merge thus so did the transition.

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,

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the contrasting personas of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as revealed through the observations of Lanyon and Utterson, portray the duality of man. When Lanyon is describing Jekyll, regarding their broken friendship, he states, “He began to go wrong, wrong in mind.” Lanyon’s words indicate that Jekyll had changed, different from his well-known outgoing self. This is the first time that he mentions Jekyll’s madness and opens up the idea that Jekyll may have a different side. Mr. Utterson’s first impression of Mr. Hyde’s appearance was unpleasant.

When Utterson notices Lanyon's sickly appearance, Lanyon answers dramatically, calling himself “a doomed man.” With his outside demeanor of a man of size, Lanyon hides a deep sense of hopelessness and inevitable fate, and this contrast draws attention to his internal struggle. When Utterson confronts Jekyll about his strange behavior, Jekyll reveals the truth about his alter ego, Mr. Hyde. The narrator describes Utterson's reaction, stating, "The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend's feverish manner" (Stevenson, 1886, Chapter 6).

In the letter that he addresses to Utterson, Jekyll tries to inform Utterson of his distressing situation and how dire it is becoming. A secondary and more miniscule conflict is between Jekyll and Lanyon. The two doctors have differing opinions on the work that Jekyll chooses to pursue. This difference causes a ripple in their friendship which Lanyon elaborates on by saying “‘... it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong minded; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake’s sake as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash would have estranged Damon and Pythias’” (Stevenson, 45). In this passage, Lanyon explains to Utterson the means of why himself and Lanyon are estranged from one another. There have been a few times in my life when a friend and I had grown distant from differing interests and opinion. Specifically, I had a friend, who I still am in contact with, who changed schools and became involved with a crowd whom I thought were unsavoury because of the choices that they made and the influence that they had on my friend. She changed, what seemed like, overnight. Looking back on it now, I realize that I should not of distanced

Therefore, stated above Jekyll left all of the memorandum, not Hyde (besides Dr.Lanyon). In other words, Dr.Lanyon is the only one who didn’t assume Jekyll was humane. The reader can tell Utterson sees through Hyde, even after Jekyll speaks immensely of him, but Utterson’s perspective cannot be credible. This is because Utterson did not suspect anything at all malevolent from Jekyll. Harboring suspicion that Henry and Edward were two contradistinctive people, Utterson underestimated Jekyll’s affiliation with science.

Hyde and was repulsed but in shock.When Utterson visits Dr. Lanyon again at his sickbed, he brings up Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Lanyon is immediately repulsed and cannot stand to talk about him. Stevenson shows this to his readers this by writing, “I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll… I am quite done with that person, and I beg that you will spare me only allusion to whom I regard as dead”(Stevenson 23). Lanyon did not want to hear about Jekyll anymore because it was Jekyll who had caused him to go into shock when he saw Jekyll himself, turn into the infamous Mr. Hyde. Seeing this made Lanyon sick and he couldn’t bear it. This shows that when a certain evilness of when a person’s human nature comes into full light, people don’t want to see it, or they are not prepared. It is truly a gruesome sight and it is also part of that seer’s human nature to be repelled by that sight. It is simply not naturally part of a person’s human nature to have their dark side of their demeanor to be fully brought out of the darkness.

The outside perspective of Utterson, Jekyll’s hesitant decline, and the attempt at protecting his reputation all portray Jekyll’s internal struggle between his good and evil

Jekyll faces physical, mental, and social outcomes that in the end lead to his failure. The physical transformation between Jekyll and Hyde illustrates the birth of a new persona, with Hyde embodying a smaller, lighter, and younger form compared to Jekyll. Jekyll's letter detailing Hyde's pure malevolence underscores the mental battle to suppress one's darker inclinations. Jekyll's conflicted emotions towards Hyde, initially welcoming the novelty but later experiencing isolation and rejection, underscore the social consequences of his dual existence. Hyde's role in Jekyll's demise exemplifies Stevenson's exploration of duality and the moral implications of harboring darker tendencies, highlighting the perennial struggle between good and evil inherent in human nature.

It's a promise loaded with desperation and determination. Jekyll straightforwardly declares, "No, I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am quite done with him. I was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed. " This quote reveals Jekyll's detachment from Hyde and his concern for his own reputation, highlighting the impact of the ongoing events on his sense of only his head and himself. After taking the potion, Jekyll begins to change, and recognizes "And my soul sickened at that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it" indicating that Lanyon is seeing that the threat is taking over his mentality.

Hyde is evil and Dr. Jekyll is good. Last, when Dr. Jekyll is transforming into Mr. Hyde, Jekyll takes note and states, “I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh.” This represents that people would judge him in such a poor way just based on his looks. Following Jekyll states, “This, as I take it, is commingled out of good and evil.” This proves Jekyll’s belief that every human has different sides to them.

Alongside this, the doctor bears “every mark of capacity and kindness” for his colleagues, like Mr. Utterson. These observable qualities we see help reinforce our belief in Jekyll’s identity of being wholly good. Meanwhile, the evil Hyde represents is visibly seen through his physical appearance. Evil is often associated with being very small and disfigured as opposed to the tall and mighty good, and this idea is developed in the novella. Hyde’s dwarfish stature is often illustrated to the reader, and during Utterson’s encounter with Hyde, he remarks: “He gave me an impression of deformity without malformation.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Utterson and Hyde meet up face to face for the first time and discuss their common friend Dr. Jekyll. Utterson says, “Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation.” The author uses words like “deformity” and “dwarfish” to describe how Mr. Hyde could come off as evil and disturbing as Dr. Jekyll. After this interaction, Utterson is still in quite disbelief as he saw Mr. Hyde.

Throughout the novella there is a constant power struggle between Jekyll and Hyde, which Hyde eventually wins but Jekyll finishes by taking his and his counterpart's life. In the beginning Jekyll is in full control, all he has to do is drink the potion and "Edward Hyde would pass away like a stain of breath upon a mirror". Also another important discovery to know was that in the beginning there was only pain turning into Hyde but as committed more atrocities, Jekyll became more consumed by evil, finding it hard to become himself again. Jekyll soon comes upon the theory that Hyde is smaller in person because Jekyll's evil side has been "less exercised", but as Hyde commits more wrongs his stature becomes stronger. Two weeks before the murder of Sir Danvers, Jekyll is in bed in Sohowhen he falls back to

One of the most vital concepts incorporated into The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the representation and depiction of the duality of mankind. Jekyll works to find a solution which will separate him into his reckless, immoral persona and his respectable, Victorian self. After consumption, this potion causes him to completely transform into a man who is known as Hyde. As Hyde, he can express himself in immoral, evil ways. This not only includes moral and immoral wants but rational and irrational wants. Not only does this transformation enable him to keep his good reputation even while he does horrid, unacceptable things, but it allows him to do things which he most likely would not even