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4.2.2 The Internal Conflict of Dr. Jekyll as Mr. Hyde
Mr. Edward Hyde is the representation of Dr. Jekyll’s hidden personality. At first Hyde only appeared if Jekyll was using the drugs that he create. He feels
more young and more happy when he became Hyde. “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body” Stevenson, 1998:51. By being Hyde, Jekyll could express all of
pleasures that he wants without worried about the norms in society. Actually Dr. Jekyll had been realized that there is an evil side on Hyde’s
character, but he feels he could found much pleasures on these new character.
I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil;
and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like a wine. I streched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these
sensations; and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature. Stevenson, 1998:51
H yde’s evil is really proved as he did some of bad things, eventhough he
did a criminal act, he kills Sir Danvers Carew. It is makes him as one of the most wanted person in London. It also caused Dr. Jekyll in trouble, because Mr.
Utterson, the lawyer of Sir Danvers Carew, forces him to give an informations about Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll seems unlike to see Mr. Hyde appears anymore as he had much trouble from Hyde’s behave. He stopped to use the drugs, then he did some
good things in his sosial environment. But the evil seems not disappear for a long time. In a morning, when Dr. Jekyll woke up, he had really surprised because he
had awakened in the body of Edward Hyde.
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I must have stared upon it for near half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror woke up in my
breast as sudden and startling as the crash of cymbals; and bounding from my bed I rushed to the mirror. At the sight that
met my eyes, my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy. Yes, I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had
awakened Edward Hyde. How was this to be explained? I asked myself; and then, with another bound of terror-how was it to be
remedied? It was well on in the morning; the servants were up; all my drugs were in the cabinet-a long journey down two pairs
of stairs, through the back passage, across the open court and through the anatomical theatre, from where I was then standing
horror-struck. It might indeed be possible to cover my face; but of what use was that, when I was unable to conceal the alteration
in my stature? Stevenson, 1998:55
It looks like Dr. Jekyll whose already becomes Hyde really nervous on that morning, because he woke up in the body of Edward Hyde while he is still in
the Jekyll’s room. He is afraid if his servant knows his appearance, moreover his drugs are far from his room now. He thinks how to get those drugs without being
known by his servant. Then he realized that Hyde had been given by Dr. Jekyll; the freedom in this house, so that the servants maybe not really curious about the
coming and going of Hyde.
And then with an overpowering sweetness of relief, it came back upon my mind that the servants were already used to the coming
and going of my second self.” Stevenson, 1998:55
These unpredictable transformation is really make Dr. Jekyll worried. Usually Hyde will be appears if he used the drugs, but then without using that
drugs, Hyde could appears suddenly. That morning is the first time he experienced that unpredictable transformation, and it is happens again in several times. It make
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Dr. Jekyll getting tired on his duality of life. He feels he should choose one of his character. Actually he prefers to choose the old doctor, Henry Jekyll.
Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes; and bade a resolute
farewell to the liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in the
disguise of Hyde. I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho,
nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet. Stevenson, 1998:57
But Hyde grows stronger in Jekyll’s body that already became more
weak than before. Hyde struggle to dominates Jeky ll’s body as Jekyll feel being
tortured by Hyde’s side.
I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral
weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught. Stevenson, 1998:57
Hyde seems to be able to take over the Jekyll’s body as he could transformed naturaly into Hyde while Jekyll needs to use the drugs to transformed
him back. Finally Jekyll surrender on Hyde, he could not transformed Hyde into Jekyll again because he is out of drugs, he cuold not make it anymore because he
has no more a specific salt as the material to make that drugs. But it did not means that Hyde will be have that body forever, Jekyll’s body is too weak to survive, he
dies in his laboratory, in the appearance of Hyde.
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4.2.3 The External Conflict of Dr. Jekyll
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