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Why does Dr Jekyll want to change into another person?
Jekyll takes the potion to turn into his alter personality which to him is a much better person where he feel like he can be free and not have to worry about hiding himself cause he is either embarrassed or ashamed that he will do something that he can’t control. He is almost transformed into a new person.
Why does Jekyll turn himself into Hyde?
At first, why does Jekyll periodically turn himself into Hyde? He enjoys being a separate person and being bad/evil. How does Jekyll deal with Hyde in the end? He kills himself which means he kills Hyde.
What are the main reasons that Jekyll tries to cast off his Hyde nature forever?
What are the main reasons that Jekyll tries to cast off his Hyde nature forever? Hyde is taking over and Jekyll is changing without using the potion. Hyde is growing in stature; Jekyll is shrinking, showing his evil side is growing. Jekyll longs for his former boring life where he has friends and is loved.
Why do you think Jekyll wanted to reveal his transformation to Dr Lanyon?
Why did Jekyll want to reveal his transformation to Dr. Lanyon? He needed someone to get the ingredients for the potion. He confides in Lanyon because he is a scientist and will understand more than the average person.
Why do Jekyll and Hyde hate each other?
After this point, Jekyll and Hyde developed a strange relationship. They hated each other. Jekyll hated Hyde because of his pure evil and his power over him. He also had the feeling of horror that Hyde would probably do more horrible things, and that is when he thought of a way that can stop Hyde – committing suicide.
How does Jekyll attitude toward his dual personality?
How does Jekyll’s attitude toward his dual personality change as he uses the drug more often? Jekyll says that because he was from a wealthy family and because of his good education, he gained the respect of all who knew him. He said that he was sometimes too spirited which annoyed him but others admired.
What inspired Jekyll to create the potion what was its purpose?
Utterson leads the police to Hyde’s home. Lanyon’s and Jekyll’s documents reveal that Jekyll had secretly developed a potion to allow him to separate the good and evil aspects of his personality. He was thereby able at will to change into his increasingly dominant evil counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
What is the moral of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
The moral message of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is that man’s soul is paired with both elements of good and evil. These basic elements cannot be separated because man is defined by the conflict within his inner nature and how he deals with this duality.
How does Dr Jekyll explain his fascination with Hyde?
He found a way for him to finally live normally, and that is why he was fascinated by Hyde because for once in his life he didn’t feel the need to hide his ways he was free to express himself and break free of the restraints.
How does Dr Jekyll describe his transformation?
He feels freed from former “bonds of obligation”—in other words, freed from conscience and superego. He also quickly realizes he is smaller. He has shrunken, he surmises, because the evil him is less developed than the good. The transformation shows both his awareness that he has become evil as Mr.