Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

This is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson which talks about this lawyer from London called Gabriel John Utterson who investigates the strange case his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll(Dr Jekyll) and misanthropic Mr. Edward Hyde who in the story is called Mr. Hyde.
The book is known for the presence of a split personality, split in the way that within the same person there is both, an apparently good and an evil side, each being different from the other. The book’s impact has made its title into a phrase "Jekyll and Hyde", meaning that a person who is greatly different in moral character from one occasion to the others.

I am going to give you a brief summary for this book. This goes as a lawyer called Utterson, upon hearing from his relative, Richard Enfield, about a sinister who trampled a young girl like a damned juggernaut who then disappears into a door on the street. He then re-emerges to pay off her relatives with a cheque. Lanyon( Utterson's friend) and Jekyll both gave Utterson a letter before Lanyon’s death. The first reveals that Lanyon’s death is caused by the shock of seeing Mr. Hyde drink a potion and as a result, change into Dr. Jekyll. The second letter explains that Jekyll, hoping to separate his good side from his darker side, discovered a way to transform himself only for a period o time into a creature free of conscience, this being Mr. Hyde. At first, Jekyll was delighted in becoming Hyde and rejoiced for the freedom that the creature possessed. However, he found that he was turning into Hyde even his sleep, without taking the potion. At this point of time, Jekyll decided to stop becoming Hyde. One night, the urge gripped him so hard that he immediately rushed out and violently killed Sir Danvers Carew. Horrified, Jekyll tried harder to stop the transformations, and for a time he proved successful. At a park, he considers how good a person he has become as a result of his deeds (in comparison to others), believing he was redeemed. However, before he completes his line of thought, he looks down at his hands and realizes that he has suddenly once again become Mr. Hyde. His ability to change back from Hyde into Jekyll slowly vanished after numerous reasons and was thinking to kill himself or being caught by the police, then that was the end of Dr Jekyll.

My favourite character is Mr Utterson for his intelligence to solve crimes and investigating matters.

From this Story, the main thing we can learn is the way Stevenson carry out his ideas and writing by mostly pairing evil and respectable together as a contrast to their split personalities. Through this book, Stevenson speaks about the respectability and banality of an evil safety lodged in a civil society which cannot be casted out.