Strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
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Re: Strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
I've read it not so long ago alongside with Dracula and Frankenstein (I was doing my MA then and was looking at good and evil in literature).
May be because of my age, life experience, motherhood, I looked at all the monsters from a very peculiar angle. I felt sorry for them.
Who are we to call them monsters?
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For me, it may be a cross from both. Hyde is Jekyll's alter ego. Alter ego is present in people with split personality disorder. However, in Jekyll's case, his alter ego is stimulated with the use of chemicals (the reason why he is somehow related to hulk by most reviews).
It is however different from regular plots where often the good character overtakes the bad one. Since, jekyll himself is the protagonist and antagonist (Hyde), in the end, both characters die leaving the story to be narrated by poor Mr. Utterson who is left to entertain the readers with a closure.
It is a book worth reading if you have patience and curiosity to know how the evil Hyde could be related to the gentleman, Dr Jekyll. Could it be social status and professional requirements that creates alter personality to humans?
The author has tackled one modern day issue right before time..
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