Defining the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde :: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Essays

Defining the Life of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The central point of this essay is to define the life of Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the transformation he went through in becoming Edward Hyde. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a physician in London. He is very well respected and is currently experimenting the dual temper of mankind. Edward Hyde is a manifestation of Dr. Jekylls somebodyality. He is accused of committing immorality acts throughout the novel. The first-year scene consists of Mr. Richard Enfields and Mr. Utterson walking along a street in London. Mr. Enfield has a recollection of a previous incident in which he witnessed an extremely unpleasant man trampling upon a small screaming girlfriend while this man was running somewhere. A large crowd had equanimous around and they saw the man, Edward Hyde. The crowd forced the man to give bills to this girl for trampling over her. Hyde did not run over her for both reason. He just did it out of spite and evil. He represents all the evil in the world. The reaction of early(a)s to him is one of horror because while looking at him, others feel a desire to strike out at him and shoot down him. His physical appearance brings out the worst evil in other people. Since Hyde represents evil, he is symbolically represented as being much small than Dr. Jekyll. I believe Dr. Jekyll created Hyde because he had a theory that man has a good side and a bad side. While investigating this, he developed a potion that could release the evil in a mortal in the form of a totally different person. Then this person could commit any evil act it wanted, and then drink the potion to devolve back to normal. The only problem with this is the fact that he drank this potion so many times that he was no longer able to control this process. He was unable to transform back into Dr. Jekyll. Another example of Hydes evil is in the killing of Sir Danvers Carew. Sir Danvers appears to have been killed for no apparent reason. The murder of Sir Danv ers was seen by a maid who was working nearby. She states that Hyde meet with a man in the street. after the two exchanged words, Mr. Hyde lifted his heavy walking stick and clubbed the aged man to death.