Who or what is Edward Hyde? Essay -- English Literature

Who or what is Edward Hyde?Due to the Victorian background of this book we argon led to believeEdward Hyde is a completely different character to enthalpy Jekyll but wesoon start to find out that they are really one person, but withjust a slight physical and mental change. virtually readers in Victorian times would take interpreted the story as astruggle between good and mephistophelean, with Jekyll being the hardworking,normal guy and Hyde being the twisted, evil person. This wasemphasised by the Christian belief of humans having a divided soul. Ifyour soul had been good, on judgement day you would be saved intoheaven where as if it was bad you would be damned to hell. During 1859Darwin was showing his ideas of humans descending from apes or simplerforms of life this confused and scared many Victorians, they were knowlonger unique they were break in of one species among many.Stevensons own experiences may in like manner help us to tell who or whatEdward Hyde is. Stevenson grew up in Edinburgh, which in itself hadtwo faces. There was the up and orgasm new town which was there-generated modern part of town and the old city, which was coveredwith disease and poverty. Stevenson also lived a double life by day hewould be studying in the new town, but by night he would go out tothe old town until late at night. This could be interpreted as thecharacter Jekyll in the story actually being like Stevenson. Jekyllwould work in his lab by day but at night he would go out to the townsof Soho.There are many connections between Jekyll and Hyde. On firstappearance we learn that Hyde is a short, ugly and not like any otherordinary man, he also seems strong and unstoppable. People reacted toHyde with a stro... ...feel any slight bit of emotion. Alsoaudibly shattered implies the shear force of Mr Hyde and even thoughhe is able to hear the shattering of the bones inside the body itstill doesnt make him stop, he continues with the beating just so heis able to get his kick o ut of seeing individual in pain.Having understood the need for scientific experimentation, do weassume all experiments are necessary? In the case of Jekyll I think he undeniable to find out the unknown, so he could be satisfied by his evilside, which he had locked up for years. If the experiments had beenmore closely controlled in the beginning this could have been a betterending. I think that taking potions (drugs) to dabble with mans dualnature is never a recommended path. The best method of release isalways the congenital way, let the inner good and evil show itself whenit is necessary.