Examples Of Violent Events In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novella that deals with numerous violent events. The three most violent events include the trampled girl, Carew’s murder, and the death of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. These three episodes show and say a lot about the duality of man. The first most violent event to take place in the novella is the incident that results in a young girl being trampled. The quote, “ ‘I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where the was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street, and all the folks asleep-street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church-till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and beings to long for the sight of a policeman. All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As the novella progresses, Jekyll desires to transform into Hyde more and more. One night, two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, Jekyll falls asleep and wakes up as Hyde. This unsettles Jekyll, and he begins to feel that he has to make a choice between the two. Jekyll then decides he will continue his normal life, but his decision does not last long. Two months later, after days of longing to be Hyde, Jekyll decides to take the transformative potion. Jekyll turns into Hyde and then beats Sir Danvers Carew to a death. Horrified of his actions, Hyde breaks into Jekyll’s lab, takes the potion, and resumes a life as Jekyll. As the story goes on, he runs out of potions and Hyde grows more powerful and ultimately defeats Jekyll. This is explained brilliantly by the quote, “Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end” (Stevenson