Similarities Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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Shawn Escalada Mrs. Moore English IntH B 9 21 March 2024 The Duality of Man in Literature In the novels The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde aren’t just authors, but people who believe that individuals hold both good and evil within them. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Utterson is a lawyer who goes on an investigation to find out more about Mr. Hyde because he discovers that his close friend, Dr. Jekyll, has written his will for his property to transfer to Mr. Hyde. As the investigation continues, Mr. Utterson begins to learn more about the tight relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, finding out that they are the same person. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, …show more content…

The imagery displayed in the story helps portray the old changes the portrait faced. When Dorian found out that the portrait of himself had been modified unexpectedly, he felt shocked. The picture of Dorian changed because he wished for the picture to age instead of himself, allowing the portrait to become older as Dorian became more uglier on the inside. Since Dorian sees Sibyl’s terrible acting, he loses all the love he had for her, causing his evil nature to say that he wishes to never see her again. However, Dorian’s unkind words toward Sibyl create tension between the two, and Sibyl ends up killing herself, so Dorian’s portrait begins to change. Dorian’s evil side creates a long-lasting ugly change in his portrait, because his unkind actions were the reason why Sibyl died. Along with that, Dorian attempts to destroy the painting in hopes of living in tranquility. When Dorian looks around his room and finds the knife that he stabbed Basil with, he believes that destroying the painting, “would kill this monstrous soul-life, and without its hideous warnings, he would be at peace,” (20). After finding his good nature to become a newly changed man, Dorian