Evil in the “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert L. Stevenson Essay

In the unexampled Robert L. Stevenson defined the genius of savage through with(predicate) the person of Mr. Hyde. He employ his character to symbolize evil at its perfect(a)st and truest form (Edward Hyde, al virtuosoness, in the ranks of hu worldly concernitykind, was pure evil scissure 10 p 2 one was all t grey evil chap 10 p 3). In the first chapter (Story of the Door), Stevenson started to externalize the idea of evil as one characterized with intentions and acts that are always meant to appall and destroy. He even gave it an unpleasant physical form which mirrors the ugliness of its constitution. Mr. Enfield, the full cousin of Mr.Utterson, remarked on this characteristic and quality of evil when he witnessed the cruel way of Mr. Hyde as he coldly trampled on a girls body he happened to ran over on one of the street corners of capital of the United Kingdom (for the man trampled calmly over the childs body and remaining her screaming on the ground p 14). Evil was a lso presented by Stevenson as monstrous and terrifying through the words and description of Mr. Enfield (It wasnt like a man it was like some damned juggernaut He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like rivulet p 14).Although Stevenson gave explicit reference to the hideousness of evil in the sweet employment it ugly, hellish and other such touch ons, he still touches on the ambiguity of evil which marks it eerily frightening-something that is felt through the senses but is someway lacking with definiteness and steely finality (He is not blowsy to describe. in that location is something wrong with his appearance something displeasing, something d ingestright detestable. I never apothegm a man I so disliked, and yet I incomparable know why.He must be deformed somewhere he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldnt specify the point. Hes an extraordinary- looking man, and yet I really ses s name nothing out of the way. No, sir I can make no march on of it I cant describe him. And its not ask of memory for I declare I can see him this secondment p 17Mr. Enfield gave this observation to Mr. Utterson after universe asked by the latter(prenominal) to describe Mr. Hyde). This vagueness surrounding the nature of evil is echoed by Mr. Utterson after having had the fortune to see Mr.Hyde in person (There must be something else There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a stinky soul that thus transpires through p 26). Mr. Hyde is identified as a symbol of evil through dastardly acts implemented without clear intentions (ex. revenge) and the slightest severalise of remorse and guilt. He carried out his evil ways with gleeful throw overboard and thoughtlessness. When Hyde murdered Sir Danvers Carew, Dr.Jekyll wr ote in a torrent of confession towards the end of the novel that Hyde killed in a state of frenzy like a man whose reason has long been lost (With a transport of glee, I mauled the irresistible body, tasting delight from ein truth blow and it was not till fatigue duty had begun to succeed that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of tenor p 88). The evil nature of man as conceived by Stevenson is one that is predisposed to the undignified (The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my camouflage were, as I have said, undignified p 82) lures and pleasures of the world.Mr. Hyde, in achievement of the secret desires of Dr. Jekyll, carried the doctors hidden dark, carnal pleasures to malevolent, sinister train Dr. Jekyll could no longer control (This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous his every act and thought centred on self drinki ng pleasure with bestial avidity from any stage of torture to another relentless like a man of sway p 82).The evil that resides in Mr. Hyde is responded to in the novel with terror, aversion and horror. Mr. Stevenson wants to commence the message that in its purest form mans evil nature is despicable and thus should be treated with due derision and horror. end-to-end the novel as the characters-Mr. Enfield, Mr. Utterson, Mr. Lanyon, and Poole- come face to face with the evil bodily that is Mr.Hyde, they felt nothing for him and what he represented except repulsion and wickedness (This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred p 69 there was something abnormal and misbegotten i n the very essence of the creature that now faced me something seizing, surprising and revolting chap 72- these were the personal reactions of Dr.Lanyon upon beholding Mr. Hyde in person Did I ever utter you that I once saw him, and shared your feeling of repulsion? p 46-this was a query posed by Mr. Utterson to Mr. Enfield). Through the outgrowth of Mr. Hyde in the novel from the body and person of Dr. Jekyll, Stevenson seemed to be making the bold command that evil lurks and lays hidden in each man.Stevenson proposed further that it is the character of evil to prey on the weaker, baser side of man, waiting and eager to pounce as soon as man entertains the idea of succumbing to the call and temptation of his darker nature just as Dr. Jekyll gave in to the lures and lurid passion of Mr. Hyde (my evil, kept invoke by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion p 77). In his confession, Dr. Jekyll admitted that every time his good side weakens, Mr.Hyde comes out roaring, becoming increasingly stronger (The power of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll and at every second of weakness, and in the confidences of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life p 79 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 p 94).Crystallized evil is characterized by Stevenson in the person of Mr. Hyde as one that does not heed the voice of reason and one that is more demonic than the received evil contained in Dr. Jekyll (I knew myself, at the first pinch of this new life, to be more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil p 78).