the truth about dr jekyll and mr hyde

The truth about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novel by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1886.

Plot

Jekyll confesses that he worked on a kind of potion to free the double nature (the good and the evil); however, his ambition has failed to control the mutation: Hyde is taking over and the transformations are happening more and more frequently, so much so that he accidentally kills a friend of jekyll.Dr. Jekyll discovers that the potion is now ineffective on him, so he is destined to transform into Hyde in a definite way. The only solution is to physically eliminate oneself, to put an end to the torment.

The split personality

the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can be defined as "alter ego", in fact although Jekyll disapproves of Hyde's evil, he is deeply attracted to his 'dark side', which gives visibility to an aspect that Jekyll and the whole Victorian society have always tried to hide or suppress.

The narrative

Robert Louis Stevenson in this novel tries to separate evil from good, and takes up some aspects of the Gothic tradition. It takes inspiration from Shelley's Frankenstein, but offers a more accurate analysis of the psychological and moral nature of man.