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

Who or what is Edward Hyde?Due to the Victorian background of this book we be guide to believeEdward Hyde is a completely different character to Henry Jekyll notwithstanding wesoon start to find out that they are actually angiotensin converting enzyme person, just withjust a slight physical and mental change. slightly readers in Victorian times would have interpreted the story as astruggle between good and evil, with Jekyll macrocosm the hardworking,normal guy and Hyde beingness the twisted, evil person. This wasemphasised by the Christian belief of serviceman having a divided soul. Ifyour soul had been good, on judgement day you would be relieve 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 banglonger unique they were part of one species among many.Stevensons own experiences may also help us to tell who or what Edward Hyde is. Stevenson grew up in Edinburgh, which in itself hadtwo faces. There was the up and coming new township 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 unstopp equal. People reacted toHyde with a stro... ...feel any slight dapple 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 fake him stop, he continues with the b eating just so heis able to overreach his kick out of seeing someone in pain.Having understood the need for scientific experimentation, do weassume all experiments are necessary? In the wooing of Jekyll I think heneeded 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 meliorateending. I think that taking potions (drugs) to dabble with mans dualnature is never a recommended path. The best method of release isalways the natural way, let the inner good and evil show itself whenit is necessary.