There is violence every single day that is caused by humans. Humans are naturally violent creatures. Humans love being violent or watching violence. In the fiction novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Hyde was a very violent person, he used violence in a very very wrong way. In today’s society we can use violence based on your profession; when this novella takes place — in the Victorian Era — they had no jobs/sports to put your violence to good use, Hyde used his violence to put innocent people in harm. Mr. Hyde obtains pleasure from committing these acts of violence. Even, the transformation between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not smooth, but rather violent. Mr. Hyde’s personality from the third
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He does these horrible acts because he gains pleasure from his violent crimes. Hyde is addicted to the feeling he gets after one of his crimes; “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg” (49). Mr. Hyde explains his feeling in his body he gets after committing a violent crime. The pleasure he receives from these acts are like a drug to him, which drives him to commit more violent crimes. Hyde went as far as murdering an old man to get his “high” from committing these acts; “And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman took a step back, with the air of one very much surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and …show more content…
Even when he would change personalities and become Dr. Jekyll, the process would be violent. Hyde always had something violent involving him, “The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death” (44). Mr. Hyde’s process when he turned into Dr. Jekyll was not smooth but it was violent and not a pleasant thing to see. Wherever Hyde is in this book there is always violence involved, Dr. Jekyll on the other hand, was never involved in a violent act except for when he changed into Hyde. Jekyll describes the process as tearing him, “The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to god” (50). Jekyll and Hyde are the same person so Jekyll decided to commit suicide to kill himself and Hyde for the safety of other innocent people. Jekyll protected other innocent civilians form being harmed by Hyde. Hyde was a natural violent person and Jekyll decided to fight violence with violence so he killed himself. Humans are naturally violent
He does these horrible acts because he gains pleasure from his violent crimes. Hyde is addicted to the feeling he gets after one of his crimes; “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg” (49). Mr. Hyde explains his feeling in his body he gets after committing a violent crime. The pleasure he receives from these acts are like a drug to him, which drives him to commit more violent crimes. Hyde went as far as murdering an old man to get his “high” from committing these acts; “And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman took a step back, with the air of one very much surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and …show more content…
Even when he would change personalities and become Dr. Jekyll, the process would be violent. Hyde always had something violent involving him, “The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death” (44). Mr. Hyde’s process when he turned into Dr. Jekyll was not smooth but it was violent and not a pleasant thing to see. Wherever Hyde is in this book there is always violence involved, Dr. Jekyll on the other hand, was never involved in a violent act except for when he changed into Hyde. Jekyll describes the process as tearing him, “The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to god” (50). Jekyll and Hyde are the same person so Jekyll decided to commit suicide to kill himself and Hyde for the safety of other innocent people. Jekyll protected other innocent civilians form being harmed by Hyde. Hyde was a natural violent person and Jekyll decided to fight violence with violence so he killed himself. Humans are naturally violent