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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll is a calm dedicated scientist. He is good man, who is comtited to his

work. He has a hiden life full of awful deeds. After feeling like he is consitantily fighting

with his self decided to create a postion. This postion makes him transform into Mr.Hyde.

Mr. Hyde is a short, mean, horrifing, monstures, cruel, bully; in other words the evil side

of Dr .Jekyll. "and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly

over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground." (chapter 1) is what Mr.

Utterson said when telling Mr. Enfield what horrible thing he had Mr. Hyde had done on

day infront of the building they were walking by.

At the time Dr. Jekyll took this potion he felt more powerful and free. He enjoyed

taking it to release his evil more spontaneous side, but at the same time he didn't like that

he was doing so much evil. Sometimes he tried fixing the mean things his other

personality had done when being Mr.Hyde. One of the horrible things Dr. Jekyll did when

Mr. Hyde is to kill Danvers Carew. "Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she

was surprised to recognise in him a certain Mr. Hyde,.....And then all of a sudden he

broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and

carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.... Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds

and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his

victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly

shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway." The narrator described how the maid

whittnesd the murder, in chapter 4. but soon Dr.Jeykell would lose control of the

tranformations.

Dr. Jekyll is tries to keep it a secret that he is both himself and Mr. Hyde. Mr.

Utterson is tries to figure out what Mr.Hydes inttentions are towards

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