In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth challenges her husband by saying, “When you durst do it, then you were a man and, to be more than what you were, you would.” (1.7) By insulting his masculinity, she makes Macbeth feel defensive and manipulates him into killing King Duncan to prove his strength. In the works Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde, and Part Time Indian, people trick others in order to obtain what they want. However, the characters who have used deception or manipulation ultimately experience consequences ranging from mild to severe. When people deceive or manipulate others, they ultimately don’t just hide the truth, but hide their true form in order to conceal something much larger. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both use deception to benefit themselves, each suffering terrible results. First, Lady Macbeth …show more content…
Utterson’s distant cousin, refuses to tell Utterson that Jekyll was the name on the check. He did not want his friend Utterson, to think anything wrong about Jekyll. Another example of deception is Dr. Jekyll himself. He does not reveal his secret even to his best friends until after his death. In order to cover up his secret, he either makes it seem that everything is fine or he pretends to be ill. Even though Mr. Utterson was always suspicious, he had no clue the extent of the secret that his best friend was keeping from him.
The lie of not knowing who Mr. Hyde is spans the entire book. Dr. Jekyll lies about not knowing Hyde, leads to giving Utterson, a very good friend to Jekyll, a big shock when he finds out that his best friend had been deceiving him the whole time. Also the shock of the lie, kills Dr. Lanyon, another dear friend of Jekyll.
Another example of Jekyll using deceit is when he tells Utterson “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde.” This lie effects Dr. Jekyll because it gives him false hope that he can stop turning into Hyde, but really he is not in control
For this reason I’ll be explaining Jekyll’s mental health. Jekyll has as what we now call Multiple Personality Disorder; “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 be rightly said to be either, it was only because I was radically both,” Stevenson 57.) The disease was first discovered by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot. He would ask patients symptoms that he found common in MPD. Many patients know about their alternate personality but refuse to acknowledge it’s existence. In some cases they may even refer to it as a separate person entirely. In this case Jekyll is very much aware of his alternate personality, going as to so far as to willingly change into him. However despite this he also categorizes Hyde into a separate being. For example when Hyde does something unappealing or distasteful he blames it on a separate person. Consciously though he is aware that he is Hyde and Hyde is him. (MD, Arnold Lieber. "Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder." PsyCom.net - Mental Health Treatment Resource Since 1986. Vertical Health LLC, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2016).
The previous chapter before the two confessions is reasonably remarkable. Poole, Dr. Jekyll’s butler, provides another portrayal. He offers many comparisons between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (“My master (…) is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf.” (p.38)). The affirmations of the poor butler are all correct except perhaps the most important: This “thing” that is in the cabinet is in fact Dr. Jekyll.
Jekyll. Hyde commits acts of murder and assault yet can be seen as Dr. Jekyll’s id or deep desires. By trying to separate good and bad . Dr. Jekyll passed scientific and social borders to isolate his personality. In doing so, he lost control of who he wanted to be. As a last resort he created a poisonous potion that Hyde drank and died through act of suicide. Dr. Jekyll although not working with anyone took matters in his own hands which makes him seem like an outlaw hero. He did not turn himself into the police when he had control. However, Dr. Jekyll seems to have qualities of a official hero in his maturity in handling the situation. He knows how evil his alter ego is, so he isolates himself from others as a safety precaution. Jekyll tries to live a normal life, but is unable to. His status as a well distinguished doctor and sociability skills with his
Jekyll’s addiction. This type of behavior is commonly used by addicts to avoid facing the uncomfortable reality of their problem. Jekyll's denial first comes up at his dinner party when Utterson comments that he is becoming increasingly informed about Hyde. “ ‘ Jekyll says’ to put your good heart at rest, I will tell you one thing the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde” (Stevenson 24). This quote suggests that it comes from a person who has a drug problem. The illusion of self-control maintain and increases the addict's dependence on his intoxicating substance or behavior, as long as he can develop a fantasy that his addiction can be arrested and his true self is dismissed for his behavior. "It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty, ‘Jekyll protests’ ”(Stevenson 64). Jekyll denied that he was not doing this. It was hyde who did all and not him. His response is similar to the addicts today who claim that they can stop using the drug and that there will be no harm. “To the extent that the addict cannot comprehend his behavior in terms divorced from the rhetoric of personal and moral failure, the addict likely will refuse to admit that he cannot govern his condition”. It is a type of denial that is used by Stevenson to show dr jekyll
Dr. Jekyll finally reveals himself in the Chapter 10 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Jekyll at first, happy with his appearance after trying the poison, he then regret about it and write to Mr. Utterson a letter before his suicide. In this letter, not only Stevenson has perfectly sketch the human nature between good and evil, but he also present the sophisticate thoughts of a person struggling with themselves by using accurate-inaccurate description in Jekyll's confession. And because Jekyll is the narrator, the unreliability of the narrator is also discussed.
I looked down; my clothes hung from lessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde.” (73). This is an example of how Jekyll’s evil side just immediately takes over and causes his side to be unbalanced. The second example is when Jekyll implies, “And hence I think it came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll.”(64).
Jekyll is respectable man with a very good career. He is a doctor that is highly regarded in his community for what he does as far as charity and his manners. As young man growing up, he was secretly involved in weird behaviors that made him a bit questionable. Dr. Jekyll finds his other side to be quite bothersome and he decides to experiment so he could try a separate the good from the evil. He creates potions and other things that really do not help. After so many attempts of trying to restrain his evil side, he brings forth Hyde through his failed experimentation. Therefore, he only accentuates his evil self to come forth. Hyde is an extremely ugly creature that no one could stand the sight of. He is deformed, violent, and very evil. Throughout the story, he fights against Jekyll to take over his life eventually causing Jekyll to murder one of his good friends, Mr.
Within the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde you will find the theme duality is used quite frequently by each character. Both Mr. Utterson and Dr. Jekyll come across dilemmas in the third, fourth, and fifth chapters. These dilemmas foreshadow the rest of the story and develop the character's behavior and motives. In the first two chapters, Mr. Utterson hears the first story of Mr. Hyde that negatively influences his perspective on his friend Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is also mentioned in Dr. Jekyll's will which concerns Mr. Utterson; he tries to question Dr. Jekyll, but Dr. Jekyll appears to avoid any conversations about Mr. Hyde.
Dr. Henry Jekyll is the main character in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This character is a wonderful example of the duality of the human nature in a person. Dr. Jekyll has always been known as a kind-hearted doctor, but he has another side as well. This other side of him is Mr. Edward Hyde, who is a cruel, disturbing and inhumane person.
In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hyde becomes Jekyll's demonic, monstrous alter ego. Certainly Stevenson presents him immediately as this from the outset. Hissing as he speaks, Hyde has "a kind of black sneering coolness . . . like Satan". He also strikes those who witness him as being "pale and dwarfish" and simian like. The Strange Case unfolds with the search by the men to uncover the secret of Hyde. As the narrator, Utterson, says, "If he be Mr. Hyde . . . I shall be Mr. Seek". Utterson begins his quest with a cursory search for his own demons. Fearing for Jekyll because the good doctor has so strangely altered his will in favor of Hyde, Utterson examines his own conscience, "and the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while in his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there" (SC, 42). Like so many eminent Victorians, Utterson lives a mildly double life and feels mildly apprehensive about it. An ugly dwarf like Hyde may jump out from his own boxed self, but for him such art unlikely creature is still envisioned as a toy. Although, from the beginning Hyde fills him with a distaste for life (SC, 40, not until the final, fatal night, after he storms the cabinet, can Utterson conceive of the enormity of Jekyll's second self. Only then does he realize that "he was looking on the body of a self-dcstroyer" (SC, 70); Jekyll and Hyde are one in death as they must have been in life.
murderous actions and statements. Hyde has no sense of morals or guilt. Dr. Jekyll states, “...that
Many mysterious events occur throughout this novel. Stevenson foreshadows the imminent end of Dr. Jekyll in the very beginning. As Utterson reads the will of Dr. Jekyll, he is perplexed by the statement that “in the case of Dr. Jekyll’s disappearance” (6), all of his money will go to Mr. Hyde. This questionable intent of Dr. Jekyll leads the reader to assume that there is something for complex connecting Mr. Hyde with Dr. Jekyll. Utterson not only tries to protect Dr. Jekyll from Mr. Hyde, but Utterson wishes to solve Jekyll’s entire problem. In the first description of Mr. Utterson, the reader learns that he is “inclined to help rather than to reprove” (1). This simple description implies that Utterson will be helping to solve a problem in this novel, though it is not identified whose problem he will try to solve. This also foreshadows a problem in the book; Utterson leads the reader to believe that a horrid situation will arise between Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is driven purely by the temptations of evil; the urges that Dr. Jekyll is unable to act on. This temptation causes Mr. Hyde to murder Sir Carew with the wal...
This is Jekyll’s butler who has served and grown close to him for over twenty years.
In the play ‘’Macbeth’’ by William Shakespeare Macbeth struggles with his conscience and the fear of eternal domination if he assassinates King Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s conflict arises when Macbeth’s courage begins to falter. Lady Macbeth is has a cruel, venomous, evil personality in which no man can escape from her wrath and raging power. Lady Macbeth is like a black widow who utilizes aggressive and ruthless tactics to persuade Macbeth to commit the assassination. This cruel minded woman utilizes the power of manipulation and reverse psychology to get what she desires.
Jekyll is given as a respected man raised in a wealthy family. During the era, people are meant to be well-mannered and polite without any sign or thinking of violence and crime; however, Dr. Jekyll secretly has a desire to perform evil. Conflicted with the ideal of society, he has repressed his emotion through many years and eventually he decided to conceal his pressure as he said, “And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.” (48) From this quote, Dr. Jekyll discloses that he’s not desired to be cheerful, as many do, and decides to fake his pressure in front of the public eyes. After many years, he then realizes he was only hiding his true emotion. Eventually, to resolve his situation, he is inspired to create a potion that could transform himself to Mr. Hyde that could free him from the struggle between protecting his reputation and following his emotion and