...and Mr Hyde

Hi beauties! Sara has already introduced you to “The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. Now, it’s up to me to “continue the story”, showing you a little more of Hyde…Mr Hyde.

Mr Hyde was the result of the drug that Dr Jekyll created to free himself from the limitations of the Victorian society…Basically, Hyde was the other half of Jekyll, the obscure one, that he needed to hide from society. Tired of hiding Hide (liked it? :P), Dr Jekyll drinks the drug and, at first, he feels younger, free, happier! But soon he will see that Hyde is more powerful than he thought and the situation gets out of control, as Jekyll constantly turns into Hyde (and vice-versa), even without noticing!

Hyde is seen as the “devil”. He was a extraordinary looking man: Ugly, smaller and younger than Jekyll - « Evil besides (…) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. ». People tried not to look at his figure with fear of temptation, because they saw in him the evil side of themselves (Btw, hasn’t this ever happened to you? Haven’t you looked at someone once, that made you feel uncomfortable and you didn’t know why? It has happened to me once or twice…so AWKWARD!).

Well, movin’on…Dr Jekyll realizes he had created a monster - « That child of hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. » - and gets disgusted with his own creation, which was even capable of killing someone (Bad boy, Hyde!)! Dr Jekyll starts hating Hyde and tries to kill him (Too late, dear Dr, I’m sorry!).

As he can’t kill  Hyde, Jekyll kills himself…and our sweet Hyde? Well, it’s up to you to imagined what happened!

     To finish, I would just like you to catch the main reasons that made me write this text. (No, it wasn’t just because it was an OBLIGATION imposed by my teacher! I really want to make a point!). The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may (and should!) be applied to real life:

Mr Hyde

      1. We all know some “Hydes” in our lives! (Whether is that not so awesome friend that talks about you in your back; or even ourselves!)

     2. Sometimes, we need to show the the “Hyde” inside of us to others, if we don’t want to be bruised!

<    3. (Finally), we should NEVER let our “Hyde” control our “Jekyll”. Otherwise, we’ll reach a point when we’ll feel the need of cutting out one of them!

Now, I say goodbye, hoping that you’ve learned something with my extremely genius text! Jk…

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Dr Jekyll...

Hello my pumpkins! Today I’m gonna talk about “The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (and you think…”what is this?!” Don’t worry… I’ll tell you in a minute!). “This” is a story that focus on a man that lived during the victorian age - a dual period, when, on the one hand people were rich (Like, ONE DAY, I’ll be!!), with manners and high in status (bright side); and, on the other hand, there were people livin’in misery, with many difficulties (dark side) -, and that man is Dr Jekyll.

   Dr Jekyll was a gentleman, a man of honor, «an honest man», but, as everyone else, he had wishes, dreams and pleasures which he had to keep to himself. All this «countenance» made him unhappy and he dealt with a frivolous duplicity - « I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me.» . 

              

  To free his other side, the supposed happier one, the one able to really live and allowed to have some pleasures, Dr. Jekyll creates a drug that transforms him in that other man that, in fact, is also him – Mr. Hyde. Delighted and tempted with the discovery of how would that man be, Dr Jekyll ignores all the «suggestions of alarm» (overdose, for example) and drinks the drug. When he drinks it, the other side of him (Hyde, of course!), is revealed and all the pleasures of Jekyll (considered «undignified» by himself) «turn toward the monstrous» in the hands of Edward Hyde, «a man of stone».

              

  Soon, Jekyll is confronted with two main problems:

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

       1. His conscience, that makes him try to undo Hyde’s deviant actions;

       2.   He also feels guilty, ‘cause he was the one that created Hyde.

For two months, Dr Jekyll is ONLY Dr Jekyll (Now is the time when we all think: “Ohh, now comes the happy ending!”. Don’t get so excited, it’s not (NOT AT ALL!) that happy.). After those two months, the “devil” «came out roaring» and committed a murder. At this time, Jekyll realized that his creation had overcome him, but Hyde didn’t understand why is creator hated him, and  so, he tried to kill him ( like Jekyll tried to do with him ) butit didn't work, 'cause at the same time, the relation between them involved too much sense of pity and passion (these two are SO contradictory!!).

In the end, Dr Jekyll kills himself and the death of Hyde is still a mistery. (So, we basically can conclude that the good one end up dead and the bad one may be promenading in this world…or under your bed! – muahahah!!). Bye bye and..SWEET DREAMS!!

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