What Is The Character Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde

In Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll expresses his transition into evil when he states, “My good self and my evil sel were fighting for my mind and body and my evil self was winning” ( 63). In The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Hyde people learn that their life is very valuable. Dr.Jekyll is a respected scientist that enjoys the concept of separating himself into a different person. Dr.Jekyll changes physically, mentally, battles his split personality, and crosses over into and finishes his transition from man to evil.

.The upbringing of Dr.Jekyll reveals that he was becoming well rounded scientist and a member of society. In Jekyll’s statement to Utterson he says, “ I was born in the year 18- to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen, and thus, as might has been supposed with every guaranteed if honorable and

Jekyll suffers through his consequences of his inability to control his opposing sides, which results into his other side Hyde. Jekyll describes his devastating of Hyde’s control over his life when he says, “ A moment before I had been safe of all men’s respect, wealthy, beloved- the cloth laying for me in the dining-room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a know murder, thrall to the gallows” (81). As a result, Jekyll comes to an understanding that he has lost his ability to control his transformation from Jekyll to Hyde. As Jekyll’s life is coming to an end, he writes a letter to Utterson: “ I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end” (86). After understanding hyde’s nature, Jekyll knows that his life as the normal scientist is over. Stevenson’s Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde tells a story about a man who decides to live his life as two humans at once. Jekyll later suffers his consequences when his dominant side takes over leaving them both