Best of Both Worlds

Best of Both Worlds

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Reading the book, I was totally hooked. How could someone consciously tackle a little girl and not express any remorse? I thought, okay, Mr. Hyde, one of the two main characters, has psychological issues. Then Dr. Jekyll, a scholar and an awesome guy, the other one of the two main characters left his will to Mr. Hyde. Okay, weird. Right? Dr. Jekyll represents good and Mr. Hyde represents evil. Someone being pure good and pure evil. Except Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, together make up one person. This was especially genius to me because Dr. Jekyll (the original) could act on his urges as Mr. Hyde without experiencing the ramifications of his actions, Jekyll would have an awesome reputation and someone could only dream about living the best of both worlds.

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We all experience urges. Whether it’s the urge to splurge on a shopping spree or the sudden urge to strangle someone, we all have urges. It must have been extremely convenient to be able to act on your urges as someone else. Mr. Hyde was this for Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll, in all his brilliance, made himself two people.

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Everyone wondered why Jekyll cared about Hyde. His close friends were concerned. “This document had long been the lawyer’s eyesore. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lawyer of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest” (Stevenson page 12). Dr. Jekyll’s close friend Mr. Utterson addressed that he was bothered by the fact that he was going to leave his fortune to some a mean, ugly man (Mr. Hyde). I would be too, but this raised the question, who is he?

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Mr. Utterson was the perfect contrast between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson was one in the same, Jekyll and Hyde were two in the same. Utterson was both good and evil, he begun letting his past affect him, “the thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the compassion of his drive, he was conscious of some tough of that terror of the law and the law’s officer’s which may at times assail the most honest.”

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Mr. Utterson is like us, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are like their own species. This really helped the plot develop having someone us readers could relate to. I loved this story and it made me appreciate both my good and evil side. I wouldn’t learn without my evil side and that’s what makes me a good person. 

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Work Cited

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories. Fine Creative Media, 2004.