Jekyll And Mr Hyde Repression

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways,” testifies physiologist Sigmund Fried. In the novella, The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, the author Robert Louis Stevenson portrays an example of how repression of desire leads to destruction. The setting is in victorian England where the expression of emotion is taboo. This hinders the repression of Jekyll’s feelings; making Hyde more powerful with every waking moment.The two main characters in this book are called Jekyll and Hyde and they are the same person. Jekyll is a scientist and is under the impression that humans are binary. He believes that there is a good and an evil side in every man. He separated these qualities of himself,