The Curiosity In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Curiosity can drive a person to accomplish tasks that normally he or she would not do. Curiosity can drive whoever to accomplish his or her goals. In the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Utterson is driven by curiosity to find out the truth about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Towards the end of the book he becomes a detective to try and discover that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are one person. In the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mr. Utterson discovers objects and obtains clues, which drives his curiosity to find out the truth behind the supposedly two men.
Mr. Utterson is very curious when he finds Dr. Jekyll’s cane in his laboratory that supposedly Mr. Hyde used as a murder weapon. He recognizes this on page 24, “name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no …show more content…
Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are one. After all the evidence he concludes that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one. Proof of this is “Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire. I have no doubt you are perfectly right, he said at last, getting to his feet” (Stevenson 21). He had trouble coming to reality that the two men are one because Mr. Utterson has been a friend with Dr. Jekyll for the longest of time. He is scared to believe that they are one because of the horrible things Mr. Hyde has done. One more example of why Mr. Utterson curiosity leads him to the outcome was on page 14, “And still the figure had no face by which he might know it… almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde. If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined” (Stevenson 14). Mr. Utterson is very shocked when he found out that the two men were one. All of the bad things that Mr. Hyde had done mean that Dr. Jekyll had also done. The reason why Mr. Utterson curiosity drove him was because he wanted to find the full
Mr. Utterson is very curious when he finds Dr. Jekyll’s cane in his laboratory that supposedly Mr. Hyde used as a murder weapon. He recognizes this on page 24, “name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no …show more content…
Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are one. After all the evidence he concludes that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one. Proof of this is “Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire. I have no doubt you are perfectly right, he said at last, getting to his feet” (Stevenson 21). He had trouble coming to reality that the two men are one because Mr. Utterson has been a friend with Dr. Jekyll for the longest of time. He is scared to believe that they are one because of the horrible things Mr. Hyde has done. One more example of why Mr. Utterson curiosity leads him to the outcome was on page 14, “And still the figure had no face by which he might know it… almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde. If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined” (Stevenson 14). Mr. Utterson is very shocked when he found out that the two men were one. All of the bad things that Mr. Hyde had done mean that Dr. Jekyll had also done. The reason why Mr. Utterson curiosity drove him was because he wanted to find the full