Similarities Between Jekyll And Hyde

When Jekyll experiences improper urges he uses Hyde as an outlet to protect his reputability, resulting in a blurred line between illusion and reality, as well as a shattered self-perception. Jekyll created Hyde as an experiment to try and contribute to the scientific community of the Victorian Era. But once he discovers that he can use Hyde as channel into the feelings he has repressed, he loses his sense of self, only finding it again when he realizes that Hyde has gone too far. Jekyll holds in his feelings to ensure that he is achieving the level of propriety that is expected in Victorian times, choosing to bottle up his desires, and Hyde becomes his scapegoat. But after acting on his desires, Jekyll realizes that there must be some evil in him, and it devastates his self-perception, calling into question who he once thought Henry Jekyll was.
In The Carew Murder Case, Hyde beats and murders Mr. Carew using a cane. It is broken in the middle with the brute force used, and Hyde proceeds to take one half with him, and leave the other with his victim. “The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough wood, had broken in the middle under the dress on this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter — the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.” The cane is identified by Mr. Utterson as a gift he once gave to Doctor Jekyll, so it is strange to see it in the hands of Hyde. The cane becomes a metaphor for Henry Jekyll and the double life he is now living. Half of him is Jekyll; driven, scientific, and proper. The other half is Hyde; evil, dangerous, and impulsive. So when Hyde takes half of the cane with him after his brutal actions, it allows readers to feel that maybe he is taking a part of Henry Jekyll with him