Internal Conflict In Jekyll And Hyde

One internal conflict is Jekyll’s ability to perceive that what Hyde is doing is also somewhat his own fault. Because Jekyll had created Hyde, he must feel guilty every time Hyde commits a felony. The murder of Carew, being because of his own accord, was a very remorseful event. Jekyll saw that he had killed a highly respected man for no good reason other than his own ambition to be a youthful Hyde again. After the involuntary transformations and the massacre of Carew, Jekyll knew he must put an end to his addiction with becoming Hyde. This internal conflict could not have been resolved because he could never undo what Hyde had done. The guilt and fear that it might happen again, especially when Jekyll cannot use an antidote, forced him to …show more content…
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The First case of foreshadowing is in chapter two when Lanyon is describing Jekyll’s work to be “scientifically balderdash”. This is a clue that what Dr. Jekyll experiments with is truly unbelievable to the common man. This can only be recognized later in the book when the reader discovers the secret of Dr. Jekyll. Before that event, the reader may agree with Dr. Lanyon because there is no other proof of how Jekyll’s work is false or even what Jekyll’s work is. Even at the end, Lanyon cannot accept what is happening to Jekyll and that leads to his unpreventable …show more content…
It takes place when Mr. Enfield is inspecting the check given to the family for one hundred pounds. He says, “I gave the check myself, and said I had every reason to believe it was a forgery. Not a bit of it. The cheque was genuine.” This foreshadows that Hyde is in fact another person somehow. The reader may assume that the “Hyde” character is someone in disguise but the reader could not have known it would be Jekyll because his name had not appeared yet in the book. In chapter two, the book makes a connection between Jekyll and Hyde in Jekyll’s will, which then the reader could assume a shared identity. Again, the reader does not fully know until the confessions at the end in the letters from Lanyon and