Jekyll and Hyde Essay Introduction and Para 1

I am going to write an look for on Robert Louis Stevensons supernatural apologue, the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which was the inspiration for stacks of modern movies sharpening dual nature of mankind e. g. The Hulk, Two character and The Nutty Professor to name a few. The story is told mostly in third person by Mr Utterson the lawyer, it is ab break through the scientist Dr Jekyll and his friend, the hated Mr Hyde. Utterson suspects that Hyde whitethorn be bribing Jekyll when Jekyll changes his pass on to one where in the event of his death altogether(prenominal) his money and his house will be given to Hyde.However when Hyde disappears later brutally murdering the highly respected Sir Danvers Carew, Utterson is pleased, but when Jekyll starts acting weird and will not leave the confines of his cabinet Utterson becomes worried and after Jekyll becomes a recluse and starts making strange demands in a voice that is not his own, Jekylls butler and Utterson break d own the doctors entrance to find Hyde lying dead on the floor from apparent suicide. The story is later explained in the novella through the testimony of Dr Lanyon, in which he reveals that he witnessed a transformation of Hyde to Jekyll and then explained in more detail by Jekyll.It turns out that Hyde was the result of one of Dr Jekylls experiments, where by imbibing the transforming draught he becomes the hated character who was the complete opposite of his uncouth self. Over time Jekyll found himself transforming without even drinking the potion, and when the do drugs ran out he became trapped as Hyde. Upon drinking the very last of the drug Jekyll writes, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. I thought this book was very interesting and would recommend it to all. This novel is all about the dual nature of mankind.Stevenson believed that every person had a well-grounded and bad side to them. The book says a lot about straightlaced hostel as they were al l meant to be very good deal but really lots of them were corrupt inside. The characters inside this novel show his theory about this very well. For example Jekyll is a well respected man, who was born to a large fortune and fond of respect of the sagacious and good among my fellow men with every guarantee of an honourable and opulent future. Like most plurality in Victorian society Dr Jekyll was obsessed with respect and he also had an evil side to him.He hated doing evil things such as gambling and drinking so much that he decided to make a potion to split his genius in two. When he first became Hyde, the evil side of his personality he felt younger, lighter and happier in body which is because his evil side would not be as developed as his good side as he has make more good than evil in his life. He enjoyed being Hyde because he could do evil things without consequence or people finding out, or so he thought. He felt he did not need to feel guilty about the things he had do ne as they technically werent him.