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Duality In Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

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Duality is a change of emotion within, seen through physical change, and can be many different personalities contained in one body. Duality can be found in anything, but in the case of literature and life we can see when there is a duality in someone's life it shows a positive and negative side of their personality. This is seen in my life when I’m calm and collected playing soccer versus when I’m frustrated. This is also seen in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when Dr. Jekyll is collected and friendly versus when he is Mr. Hyde and has a more evil and impulsive personality. In my life as an athlete I experience duality that reveals two sides of my personality being serious and responsible, but the actions of others sometimes …show more content…

“Sorry coach, it is just that we lost a tournament everyone was so excited about, and now everyone is ignoring that and continuing our season like that never happened. We are back to messing around in practice, and it shows through our bad touches and passes.” Coach sighs and responds, “I understand your frustration, and I feel it too, but let me worry about the team and you focus on keeping yourself contained. We need you to stay level-headed, so our whole team won’t fall …show more content…

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the duality between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shows a difference between an evil personality versus a good personality within the body of Dr. Jekyll. One example of the personality change is evident when Dr. Jekyll cuts off Mr. Hyde and his friends notice once, “the dark influence of Mr. Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.” (Pg. 36-37) Dr. Jekyll was under the influence of a friend, Mr. Hyde which made his whole personality change, but once this figure was removed from his life he returned to his happy and friendly self. Then a sharp change occurred and everything went back to the way he acted when he was with Mr. Hyde, evil, dark, and disconnected. Dr. Jekyll later in his statement admitted he had two personalities saying, “Although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll.” Dr. Jekyll is writing to Utterson about how he is full of these two personalities with one being evil and one being who he used to be, but both are contained in one

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Interests in math and science. Mr Hyde had developed a potion that allowed him to turn into Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll found a way to separate his good side from his darker side, by transforming himself into a monster free of consciences. But he later found that he was turning into more and more into Mr Hyde. He started turning into Mr. Hyde in random places, the transformations got worse and worse.

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Robert Lewis Stevenson introduces the concept of duality in Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by comparing the differences in Hyde and Jekyll, inherently good vs purely evil, and the internal struggle one has; How does one person have two natures, the good and the evil, but in one? Throughout Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde it becomes evident the battle one has with oneself, including the fight between good and evil, right and wrong, remorse and immoral. Utterson is a prominent character in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. At the start of the book he is described as not too curious of a man, who keeps to himself, mostly.

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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.

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Duality exists not only in human nature, but also in the world around us. Duality is everywhere, but sometimes it can be hard to notice it while others may be obvious. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde it was easy to point out the duality because it was a physical element. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, it was harder because some of the dualities were not physical objects while some were physical. Duality is the two sides of a concept.

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Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, it is discovered that in the end Jekyll and Hyde are the exact same person. Jekyll revealed that he liked being in Hyde’s body because he was able to get away with murder. He reveals that by saying “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.” (Stevenson, 78) Jekyll is the perfect example of a Doctor who was considered to be well-respected, and passionate about his career.

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He is deeply troubled by his own actions and the impact they have on his soul. He seeks to find a way to reconcile his good and evil sides, but ultimately fails. Jekyll's statement, "man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point" (Chapter 10), highlights his struggle to reconcile his dual nature. Jekyll's character is a reflection of the conflict between his desire to be good and his inability to control his darker

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“I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dualism is a fundamental component of the human psyche in detail, the personality duality that results in possessing two dissociated characters chiefly good one conversely evil one. The famous novel of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” illustrates personality disorder throughout the decent Dr. Henry Jekyll who portrays the good side seeking a medicine that separates the sinister part away, subsequently he conducts experiments

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The duality not only is showed through their actions , but also revealed through the world between science and supernatural . Science generally clarifies the present reality by methods for investigation and perception . Researchers are typically contemptuous of the extraordinary , so Lanyon has stayed clear form Jekyll for a long time on account of his “fanciful” and “wrong minded” thoughts and examinations.

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In the novel, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson explores the complexity of human nature. He uses characters and events in the novel to present his stance on the major theme: “man is not truly one, but truly two” (125). Branching from this major theme are many more specific views on the idea that human nature is divided into good and evil. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two very different people who occupy the same body. Human beings struggle with good and evil and Stevenson goes to the extreme to to show this relationship.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consists of reputation, good vs evil and damage control. In other words, Utterson tirelessly works to prevent his best friend Dr. Jekyll from being dragged into the horrid affairs of Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jekyll goes through the greatest of lengths to prevent his Hyde identity from being discovered, in order to avoid anyone knowing of his somewhat questionable scientific work and morally despicable behavior. Much of the novel is based on the characters ' reputations, how they have to maintain a good public image, as they are upper class people. The novel takes place in Victorian England and the main characters are all male members of upper class London.

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Dr Jekyll is his content side, which represents good and Mr Hyde is his evil side, which represents self indulgence and madness. In this book we can see the duality of one person, represented in alter egos. This suggests the question, is there really a good person, or is there a person who can control their

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Stevenson’s tells a story of Dr Jekyll, the embodiment of a trustworthy and noble gentleman, who has another distinct identity within him that is

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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" brings the double personality theme, but, the story itself is about the mystery behind Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's connection. The whole story goes around Mr. Utterson - a decent lawyer - trying to find out what is wrong with his dear friend, Henry Jekyll, and what is his relationship with the devilish man, also known as Mr. Hyde. On the end of the story, the reader finds out that Mr. Hyde is Jekyll's evil side: the doctor was fascinated by the duality of human nature and decided to do some experiments to separate his two sides, the good one and the evil one. Henry Jekyll wanted to do things that he couldn't because of his reputation and social morals, therefore, the best and only way of doing what he really wanted to was to have another side that no one knew. On the other hand, he didn't know how evil his other side could be: Mr. Hyde was purely evil and Dr. Jekyll wasn't purely good.

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