Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Analysis

The doppelgangers are now completely in control of Jekyll and Dorian’s lives, inhibiting their abilities to live life normally. On one pleasant day, Jekyll found himself sitting on a park bench, content with just observing the scenery. He suddenly began to “feel a change in the temper of [his] thoughts” and when he looked down, “[he] was once more Edward Hyde” (Stevenson 78). In broad daylight, without taking the potion, Jekyll managed to transform into Hyde; showing the deterioration in his strength and the increase in Hyde’s. Out of fear of being caught and harming others, Jekyll locks himself in his laboratory and seeks a solution for his particular ‘ailment’. In the lab, Jekyll deteriorates further, having to take a “double dose to recall

When Utterson finally manages to break into the laboratory where Jekyll had shut himself in, he finds a disastrous scene, in the middle of which lies the body of Hyde. Although Utterson was not aware, Hyde’s body lying there instead of Jekyll’s shows Hyde was so strong that he surfaced once again in Jekyll’s last moment. After Dorian pays a visit to the country, he thinks that he is making changes for the better. Telling Lord Henry blatantly tells him that he is “still the same” (Wilde 203). Dorian is offended at this notion and attempts to defend his ‘reformation’ but Lord Henry is adamant in Dorian’s lack of personal

He thinks that “perhaps if his life became pure, he would be able to expel every sign of evil passion from the face” of the painting (Wilde 208). He then ventures to the schoolroom where Basil’s final masterpiece resides. In revealing the picture, Dorian is devastated to find that “he could see no change…” except that it looked “more loathsome…than before” (Wilde 208). He concludes that the painting is the last remaining piece of evidence in Basil’s murder. He would destroy it to “…kill the past, and when that was dead he would be free” of all the sins he committed and be able to start his life anew. He takes a knife and slashes at the painting, not knowing that it is a physical representation of his soul, inadvertently killing himself. His servants find the body of an old man that was “withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage”, identified as Dorian Gray by the rings on his hand. The painting looked over his body, reverted to its original pristine and innocent appearance. In the end, both Dorian and Jekyll found themselves dead in the form of what they hated the most, their