Dr Jekyll And Hyde Similarities

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People often know the “Jekyll and Hyde” disease as a person having two distinctive personalities. In the novel that was the source of the disease name The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde are one person that has two personalities. Their differences mainly appear in their personality and morality, while their similarities are point of view on style of arts, colors, and designs but also their life identities. Jekyll and Hyde are at opposite ends of the morality and personality spectrum, but have similarities in factors of artistic taste, property, identity. Hyde has differences with Jekyll in personality and education. Hyde is animal-like while Jekyll is an honorable and proper Victorian gentleman. Stevenson …show more content…

Hyde is also very different in morality than Jekyll. Hyde is violent and does crimes calmly without even thinking about others. “With ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway” (22). He violently killed Sir Danvers Carew and hurried away. Jekyll uses potions to separate two personalities, but the evil Hyde is getting stronger and is taking over. Even though Jekyll promised that Utterson will not see Hyde, Hyde still constantly return. When Jekyll tries to be a good self and forget Hyde for a year, Hyde returns with rage and finally kills Carew. Those two different sides of people also have similarities, however. Jekyll and Hyde are the same person after all. They both have the house keys, access to bank accounts, and they both have a weird impression of agreement and fighting towards each other. Jekyll understands that he created his evil alter ego to completely store his evil side in another body so he can live freely. The grotesque Mr. Hyde speaks rudely but still does understand what Jekyll is doing (sometimes he refuses to stay inside and want to bust out). They also have a similar understanding about