Research Papers On Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Nicolette Pitinii Mr. Williams Ap Lit and Comp 24 May 2024 Nicolette Pitinii’s Research Paper As Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s story reaches a dramatic conclusion, “Dr Jekyll’s authentic emotions are brought to light by proclaiming “‘With every day and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and intellectual, I thus drew steadily to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but Robert Lewis Stevenson explores the labyrinth of Dr. Jekyll’s human mind in the novel The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, vividly illustrating the suppression of primal desires that can lead to the emergence of a dangerous alter ego. Throughout the novel, Stevenson portrays Dr Jekyll

Hyde illustrates indicators of Marten's study when he disappears from the police as if he had never existed (Stevenson 22). The interpersonal indifference he has with everyone in society allows him to detach himself from the police after committing his violent crimes. The introduction of Hyde detaching himself from reality explores the novel's theme of Hyde's isolation based on his unstrained pursuit of pleasure and power. Additional reasoning supports Hyde’s illness further by Marten’s study that “the significant deficit in schizoid disorders is the person's intrinsic incapacity to experience the joyful and pleasurable aspects of life” (Martens 3). Individuals around Mr. Hyde say, “‘Then you must know, as well as the rest of us, that there was something queer about that gentleman, something that gave a man a turn- I do not know rightly how to say it beyond this: that you felt it in your marrow-kind cold and thin” (Stevenson 31). Martens' observation that individuals who suffer from schizoid cannot experience joy explains Hyde’s lack of positive social interactions with others. The violent behaviors and eventual isolation that Hyde depicts quickly correlates with the ongoing theme of isolation portrayed in the