Stevenson employs the narrative to explore the physical, psychological, and social effects of addiction, as well as the social response. The story, then, serves as an attempt to humanize and understand addiction. Though the word ‘addiction’ itself does not appear in Stevenson’s novel, his description of Jekyll and his dealings with Hyde,
In those who are themselves human, compassionate and thoughtful, Hyde raises some red flags. Even Jekyll fairly quickly recognizes the nature of Hyde: “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me [Jekyll] and raged… My devil [Hyde]… came out roaring” (Stevenson 84). However unlike Utterson and Enfield, Jekyll is taken by the “lust for evil.” Even a man as good as Jekyll can be swayed by the dark side.
Jekyll is seen performing scientific practice, attempting to achieve a goal which can be argued to exceed his mental capacity. Dr. Jekyll wished to remove his dark side, tampering with the duality of man. He expressed hatred towards is his darker side. It shows this in the quote “many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as i was guilty of;... I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.”
The death of Dr Jekyll is not as violent, his corpse is found with a “crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels” suggesting the intake of arsenic. Although the body was found “sorely contorted
Jekyll, the reader knows an exact moment, when everything went irretrievably wrong. It was a moment when Jekyll took a potion for the first time to become Hyde. It was emancipation in the fullest sense of this word. Edward Hyde is much younger than Jekyll, who is in his 50s and full of regrets about missed opportunities and unfruitful, boring life. Jekyll initially loved being Hyde because he regained the foolhardiness of the youth with concurrent to it senses of endless possibilities and some kind of invincibility.
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Dr. Jekyll is suffering from this mental disorder often called split personality. For many years Dr. Jekyll has suffered from this order fighting the evil until he couldn’t fight it anymore. Later on Dr. Jekyll turns into this short, young, and remorseless guy. He had begun to get a thrill from his violent
“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.
At the end of the book, the last chapter is told in Jekyll’s perspective in which he describes the development of his second personality, Hyde. The potion was first created to get his evil self away from his good self. When he willingly created the drink, it showed he was experimenting with the effects of the drug on his body and the amount of certain substances for his ultimate high (page 44). Although his intentions of using the drug were good, he began to slip into denial with his life long friend, Mr. Utterson. When Jekyll wrote his will to a man of the name to Hyde, as his lawyer and friend, Utterson was concerned and began to search for this man, but multiple times in the book, Jekyll reassures Utterson that everything is under control and to not doubt him.
However, they were one person. At his youth, During the day, he lived a life of giving precedence as a doctor, but the night was a dissolute life. One day, Dr. Jekyll thought. That can’t be both, and it was necessary to give up one of their two parts.
The show starts off with two men, John Utterson, Jekyll’s lawyer and childhood friend, and Sir Danvers Carew, father of Jekyll’s fiancée, Emma. They momentarily narrate of how Dr. Jekyll affected their lives. It continues to show Jekyll experimenting to find a cure to save the life of his father, and later, when allegedly discovering it, being turned down to experiment on a live patient, due to morality issues. In between these scenes takes place a passive-like confrontation
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.
ry Jekyll is a man with a deeply divided sense of his private self and public self. In his public persona, he is a benefactor, a doctor, a long-time and good friend, and a scholar. In his private persona he yearns for more liberty (defined as freedom from restraint, control, obligation, interference or restriction) to indulge in activities that would bring him reprimands or even public disgrace if his actions were to be known. Utterson describes him as being about fifty years old; a large, tall man without facial hair ("smooth-faced"). He also says Jekyll is devoted to charities and to his religion.
We all can agree that Dr.Jekyll has problems. But the main problem he has is a personality disorder. There are many personality disorders that exist today, as to which one Dr.Jekyll has is the question everyone asks. Personality disorders range from, something as simple as, paranoid personality disorder to, something major like, schizophrenia. As to which one I believe he has is, schizoaffective disorder.
