The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

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“I have had a shock,” he said, “and I shall never recover. It is a question of weeks. Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it. I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.”

Dramatic...but also MOOD

and the record of a series of experiments that had led (like too many of Jekyll’s investigations) to no end of practical usefulness.

Harsh

It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature.

In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.

I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were...

from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both;

have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll.