This character plays a successful doctor who is the “good” side of his two characters. He is the protagonist in the novella. This character is the malicious side that Jekyll becomes once he drinks a homemade chemical mixture. He is the antagonist in the novella. This character is a lawyer and good friend of Dr. Jekyll. This character is a doctor and friends with Jekyll and Utterson. This is Jekyll’s butler who has served and grown close to him for over twenty years. Enfield is a relative and friend of Mr. Utterson. They walk together although not much conversation is spoken. This character is a clerk to Utterson. Carew is one of Utterson’s clientele. He is respected by his community and is indirectly related to important crimes that take place throughout …show more content…
He helps Jekyll receive the proper chemicals to “transform” into Hyde. He is the only person that has witnessed this transformation. He dies before he can tell of this supernatural event but wrote it down. He is significant because he is the closest source to Jekyll when Utterson is investigating. Poole calls for Utterson when he notices that Jekyll’s voice has changed and his habits have separated him from all servants. He is important because he told Utterson the story of him witnessing Hyde trample a young and leave her crying. He helped the family of the girl receive compensation of the girls’ injuries from Hyde. The check from Hyde was one signed under Dr. Jekyll. His story was the impetus to Utterson’s interest in Hyde. Guest is asked to inspect the handwriting of Hyde and notices similarities between Hyde’s penmanship and Jekyll’s. They’re nearly identical. This character is important because he is killed by Hyde after Hyde loses his temper and beats him with a cane. This shows how dangerous Hyde actually is. Sophisticated, emotional, miserable(specific times),
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.
...hat he can finally recognize the severity of his weakness to his drug. Dr. Jekyll's plight, therefore, could be an exploration of the destructive behavior brought on by addiction, and an underlying moral message is embedded in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - the implication that addiction will inevitably lead to evilness and the destruction of productive lives.
To conclude the way that Stevenson has described Hyde and what Jekyll has done in most parts he has related it to the devil which in Victorian times was considered very dangerous, even though today he’s not considered that powerful it would still make a big impact. Stevenson has been successful in using many elements of a shocker/thriller to write a novella with a much deeper moral significance because every aspect of the story relates back to the Victorian morals of 1837 till 1901 and for a 21st century reader some parts of the novella will make them think what is really happening around them now and whether it is right or not!
Mr Hyde is the evil side of Dr Jekyll, but he is restrained from being
Another pattern that the author shows as being important is fear. Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield were walking together and saw Dr. Jekyll in his house. They were talking to him when all of a sudden he started to change into Mr. Hyde. Seeing this they glared at each other, both were pale and had an answering of horror in their eyes. "I am afraid, I think there has been foul play." Poole says this when he goes and talks to Mr. Utterson about Dr. Jekyll. Also, when Mr. Utterson and Poole go talk to Dr. Jekyll, ask for him, but find out that Mr. Hyde is inside- they swing an axe at his door. They hear a "dismal screech, as of mere animal terror." A different way fear is shown is when Lanyon saw Mr. Hyde turn into Dr. Jekyll. "O God and O God again and again." Lanyon said this after what he saw.
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.
The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a confusing and perplexing one. R.L. Stevenson uses the devices of foreshadow and irony to subtly cast hints to the reader as to who Mr. Hyde is and where the plot will move. Stevenson foreshadows the events of the book through his delicate hints with objects and words. Irony is demonstrated through the names of characters, the names display to the reader how the character will fit into the novel. These two literary devices engage the readers; they employ a sense of mystery while leading the readers to the answer without them realizing the depth of each indirect detail.
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).
Dr. Jekyll was responsible for the murder and death of Dr. Hyde because he was still “there” enough take the poison and sacrifice himself to end it all. The text shows that Jekyll kept trying to fix what he had done, and felt very ashamed of Hyde’s actions. This proves that Dr. Jekyll is responsible for the death of Mr. Hyde, because if he hadn’t still been “there,” while being in the form of Hyde, he would not have remembered the evil acts of Hyde. He also tried to fix his mistakes, but still didn’t stop when he had
In conclusion, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, represent many themes of duality in human nature. This is represented by the characters of Henry Jekyll, Edward Hyde, Hastie Lanyon, and John Utterson.
When Jekyll first turns into Hyde, he feels delighted at his newfound freedom. He states: "... And yet when I looked upon /that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, /rather of a leap of welcome..."(131). Now he could be respected as a scientist and explore his darker passions. Stevenson shows duality of human nature through society.
This guilt drives him to have “clasped hands to God…tears and prayers to smother down the crowd of hideous images and sounds that his memory swarmed against him” (Stevenson 57). As a whole, the text demonstrates that Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego, Mr. Hyde, is the mastermind of pure malevolence who participates in activities that Dr. Jekyll cannot Jekyll experiences. For instance, Dr. Jekyll’s physical appearance begins to decline as he stops taking the draught. The text describes Dr. Jekyll’s physical characteristics as “looking deadly sick” when his is usually a “large well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness” (Stevenson 19-25). Not only does Dr. Jekyll’s health begin to decline, but also his behavior changes as well.
Henry Jekyll’s innermost vices, but since he held himself to an extremely high standard of moral excellence, he needed to find another way of releasing. He creates Hyde as his way of getting these primal urges out. During this time period, the focus on reputation and credibility was huge, and this is how men were judged. He had many urges that he was internally repressing, as a result of existing in the Victorian era, which was well known for how incredibly stuffy and repressed it was. Jekyll was widely respected in the community as a doctor and he had many friends, so it is understandable that he didn’t want to lose his reputation, which came first for men of his social standing in this time period. He went to great lengths to create and cover for Hyde, including renting a place for Hyde to live, and making a bank account for his alter ego. The creation of Hyde turns out to be way more sinister than Jekyll initially imagined. Hyde’s own name is a pun, as he is the part of Jekyll that he must keep hidden away for fear of
Jekyll’s thought process was destroyed with these horrific pangs of mean wishes upon others. Lanyon, an old colleague of Jekyll, did not agree with Jekyll’s scientific works. Lanyon was more of a realist, while Jekyll performed more abstract procedures. Jekyll was cured from the possible stress that he might not live his life out to the fullest, so he created Hyde and did whatever he wanted. Hyde created a barrier Jekyll could pass and become however evil he desired.
Dr. Jekyll’s first evil side is shown through Mr. Hyde when he “trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground” (Stevenson 8). When Hyde was walking home and ran into her around the corner, he did not even care that she was hurt on the ground. Mr. Utterson, the witness, said that “[Hyde] was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but