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Describe The Mouth Of Henry Jekyll

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Mouth: Henry Jekyll’s mouth says a lot of things. His mouth hints multiple emotions, displaying that there are some secrets he may be hiding at the tip of his tongue, such as his deeper darker side he wants to keep away from others. He’s more reserved with his thoughts because he does not want to ruin his main body's reputation. Description: Henry Jekyll is a man of science. As a doctor and chemist, he is respected by his peers and society. He lives to understand the true nature of the human mind’s both sides of nature - Good and evil. He’s also intrigued to find his nature and struggles with his evil urges toward people out in public. Despite all this, he tries to better himself and feels horrible for what he has done which subsequently leads …show more content…

He wants to find a body for his evil mind to perform sinful acts on others while his good side is presenting his intelligent original self. Heart: Henry’s heart is half good but evil is trying to flood it. He tries to keep neutral feelings with himself throughout the novel to try and keep the dark urges away from flooding his mind. Regardless, his evil side tries to take control of his thoughts leaving him in a vulnerable dark state. These feelings caused him to feel unsettled with his actions. Arm: Henry's weakness shows when he's being controlled by Hyde. He can't control his alter ego once he's fully transformed and it ruins him especially since he wants to change his choices after the fact he's finished with the experiment …show more content…

However, later, it becomes clear that his attempt failed and made him realize he cannot control his darker impulses from his kind side. He started evaluating the thought of him discovering an evil side for him to perform evil acts, but this ruins him later after his transformation. Potion: He is holding a strange-looking potion. He's holding this as half of the bottle remains with a deadly dosage, he must take to complete his transformation for sinister actions. This potion shows how deeply he wants to become his evil alter ego so badly to perform his disturbing impulses. Theme Statement: While facing problems with our dark impulses, tempting to create something immoral to fix our struggles with ourselves can lead to destruction psychosomatically. “I am quite done with that person.” Henry Jekyll mentions that he’s done with being controlled by his evil side towards the end of the story. Furthermore, he says this to prove to others that he regrets everything and is showing remorse, he hints later that his problems are coming to an end by taking his own life. “I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of

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