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!!

                                                                                   XOXO, Oh My Gossip!       
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