What Is Inhumane In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

As the reader completes the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll’s lack of common sense and ethics becomes vividly clear. It is transparent that the idea of creating a separate identity without control is unreasonably absurd. For example, it is comparable to a drunk who listens to his own advice as, “he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility”(Stevenson 86). This would include scientists who possess the capability and knowledge to fulfill their heinous experiments such as Dr. Jekyll who undertakes the risk and regretfully realizes what he has accomplished as he claims it, “made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility

Jekyll became painfully aware of the inhumane characteristics his creation contained. Continuing, in regards to the murder of Sir Carew Danvers, Dr. Jekyll addresses the nature of his creation known as Mr. Hyde and declares, “at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation”(86). Mr. Hyde’s personality is not comparable to the average citizen during this time period. Dr. Jekyll discusses the nature of Mr. Hyde stating that his mentality lacks moral incentives and fails to distinguish between right and wrong. The result of Dr. Jekyll’s science experiment caused a series of unfortunate events that would guide him to his own demise. Dr. Jekyll states that he removed his, “balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptations”(86). By accepting his temptation, it consumed his personality by not just altering his identity, but by replacing it with the mindset of Mr. Hyde. Thus, the transformation of a respectable scientist into a despised murderer serves as evidence to the idea that science is Dr. Jekyll’s primary motivation rather than human