{"id":1001,"date":"2017-11-20T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:38:12","slug":"is-dr-jekyll-hyding-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/11\/20\/is-dr-jekyll-hyding-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Dr. Jekyll “Hyding” Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opinions of Mr. Hyde, as seen through other characters in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/em> by Robert Louis Stevenson, have not been particularly positive. For example, Mr. Utterson declares \u201cI never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why\u201d (Stevenson, 5) and later believes, \u201cthe man seems hardly human!\u201d (Stevenson, 10). However, Dr. Jekyll\u2019s views on Mr. Hyde are especially interesting and revealing.<\/p>\n

When Mr. Utterson first mentions Mr. Hyde to his friend, \u201cthe large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes\u201d (Stevenson, 13). Someone tends to \u201cgrow pale\u201d when he\/she becomes scared, stressed or sickened. In many cases, this paleness results from a feeling of anxiety. Therefore, before even responding to Mr. Utterson\u2019s claim, the reader has an indictment of how Dr. Jekyll will reply.<\/p>\n

Even with the new \u201cabominable\u201d (Stevenson, 13) information Utterson has uncovered about Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll refuses to speak more on the subject. He tells the lawyer, \u201cThis is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop\u201d (Stevenson, 13). Most people tend to love hearing about gossip, especially when the subject isn\u2019t themselves. However, Dr. Jekyll appears to want nothing to do with it and consistently asks to move onto a new topic. This raises the impression that perhaps Dr. Jekyll already knows what Mr. Utterson is about to tell him. Furthermore, what if the doctor\u2019s lack of curiosity is because he\u2019s actually hiding something?<\/p>\n

This idea would go along with Dr. Jekyll\u2019s mention of \u201cmy position is very strange\u2014a very strange one\u201d (Stevenson, 13). He goes on to tell the lawyer that \u201cIt is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking\u201d (Stevenson, 13); which has the reader thinking about whether the doctor\u2019s \u201caffair\u201d is one that Mr. Utterson must see for himself in order to believe.<\/p>\n

Once again, Dr. Jekyll urges Mr. Utterson that \u201cthis is a private matter, and I beg of you let it sleep\u201d (Stevenson, 13), before finally telling him, \u201cI do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in\u201d (Stevenson, 13) Mr. Hyde. Connected to the last point, perhaps people cannot see Mr. Hyde the same way as the doctor does because he is withholding the truth. Dr. Jekyll has seen something in Mr. Hyde that no one else has, an interesting point considering these two characters have yet to be in the same place at the same time in our novel so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opinions of Mr. Hyde, as seen through other characters in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, have not been particularly positive. For example, Mr. Utterson declares \u201cI never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why\u201d (Stevenson, 5) and later believes, \u201cthe man … Continue reading Is Dr. Jekyll “Hyding” Something?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}