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In the novel, Stevenson creates a hero in Dr. Jekyll, who aware of the evil in his own being, and sick of the duplicity in his life, succeeds by way of his experiments on himself in freeing the pure evil part of his being as Mr. Hyde, so that each can indulge in a life unfettered by the demands of the other.As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the kind-hearted Dr. Jekyll and the evil Mr. Hyde are one and the same, with the friendly doctor having developed a powerful serum to transform himself into an evil, wretched person in order to indulge in his vices without guilt or fear of detection.While it is true that Jekyll largely appears as moral and decent, engaging in charity work and enjoying a reputation as a courteous and genial man, he in fact never fully embodies virtue in the way that Hyde embodies evil.

Was Dr Jekyll the nice one : Viewed on a simple level, Dr Jekyll is a good man, much admired in his profession. Mr Hyde, meanwhile, is evil. He is a murderer; a monster who tramples upon a small girl simply because she happens to be in his way.

What kind of person was Dr. Jekyll

Dr Jekyll is a well-respected and intelligent scientist. He is a wealthy man and lives in a house with his butler, Poole.

Does Jekyll hate Hyde : Jekyll hates Hyde for the ascendancy that Hyde has over him, and Hyde hates Jekyll both because of Jekyll's hatred, but more importantly because Hyde knows that Jekyll can destroy him (Hyde) by committing suicide as Jekyll.

Jekyll is a well-respected gentleman, so he has to keep his sins and desires well-hidden and secret from the rest of society. The repressive society Jekyll lives in was likely to convince him that “man is not truly one, but truly two”.

Edward Hyde is a part of Dr. Henry Jekyll. He is, as Dr. Jekyll himself puts it, "the evil side of [Jekyll's] nature" brought into existence by a mysterious drink created in Jekyll's laboratory (Stevenson 55).

What kind of person is Jekyll

Dr Jekyll is a well-respected and intelligent scientist. He is a wealthy man and lives in a house with his butler, Poole. To the rear of his house, with a separate entrance onto a side street, he has his own laboratory.Jekyll hates Hyde for the ascendancy that Hyde has over him, and Hyde hates Jekyll both because of Jekyll's hatred, but more importantly because Hyde knows that Jekyll can destroy him (Hyde) by committing suicide as Jekyll.Jekyll is a well-respected gentleman, so he has to keep his sins and desires well-hidden and secret from the rest of society. The repressive society Jekyll lives in was likely to convince him that “man is not truly one, but truly two”.

Throughout the book, Jekyll's two different sides are used to show that man is consistently selfish and will usually think of himself before others. Even though Jekyll has a good side and an evil side, both sides of him are selfish.

Was Dr. Jekyll bipolar : Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. Correspondingly, the modern definition and symptoms of the disease, now known as bipolar disorder, matches what Dr. Jekyll describes in his point of view within the novel.

Is Jekyll and Hyde LGBT : Indeed, in critical accounts of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Hyde is often interpreted as representing the repressed homosexuality of the doctor, rendered villainous by the recent Labouchere Amendment which outlawed “acts of gross indecency” between men.

Is Dr Jekyll selfish

Throughout the book, Jekyll's two different sides are used to show that man is consistently selfish and will usually think of himself before others. Even though Jekyll has a good side and an evil side, both sides of him are selfish.

Remember Hyde is pure evil; Jekyll is the same old mixture of good and evil (otherwise he would never be tempted to transform into Hyde.) We could say he is not a person in his own right as he is the evil side of Jekyll's personality.Dr Jekyll is respected due to his wealth, reputation as a charitable man and his discoveries in science. The doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent reputable men, and all judges of good wine.

Is Jekyll and Hyde about homosexuality : Indeed, in critical accounts of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Hyde is often interpreted as representing the repressed homosexuality of the doctor, rendered villainous by the recent Labouchere Amendment which outlawed “acts of gross indecency” between men.