Differences Between Jekyll And Hyde

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Later, after this ungraceful transformation, when Dr. Jekyll is explaining all these ill-doings, he says that he made and drank a potion that was supposed to separate him from his evil. He explains that he was trying to separate himself from Mr. Hyde and then once separated, kill Hyde so he would be free of his evil. This failed though, and he just turned into the purely evil Hyde and Hyde was set free into the world. After letting Hyde be free for such a long time, Jekyll starts to fear him and “locks him up” inside of himself. He clarifies that by using this statement: “I was still cursed with my duality of purpose…, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence. Not that I dreamed of resuscitating

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