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

Who or what is Edward Hyde?Due to the Victorian ambit of this book we be led to believeEdward Hyde is a completely assorted character to Henry Jekyll but wesoon start to find prohibited that they are actually unmatched person, but withjust a lean physical and mental change.Some readers in Victorian times would start bug out interpreted the story as astruggle between good and evil, 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 perceptiveness day you would be saved intoheaven where as if it was bad you would be damned to hell. During 1859Darwin was drawing his ideas of humans descending from apes or simplerforms of life this worried and scared m some(prenominal) Victorians, they were knowlonger unique they were part of one species among many.St dismantlesons own experiences may also help us to tell who or whatEdward Hyde is. Steve nson grew up in Edinburgh, which in itself hadtwo faces. There was the up and coming 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 study 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 laboratory by day but at night he would go out to the townsof Soho.There are many connections between Jekyll and Hyde. On maidenappearance 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 indoors the body itstill doesnt make him stop, he continues with the beating just so heis ab le to get his kick out of seeing someone in pain.Having understood the need for scientific experimentation, do weassume all experiments are necessary? In the case of Jekyll I think he unavoidable 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 start out this could have been a betterending. I think that taking potions (drugs) to coggle with mans dualnature is never a recommended path. The best method of departure isalways the natural way, let the inner good and evil show itself whenit is necessary.