![]() ![]() ![]() You might know him better from his romantic pirate novel, Treasure Island. Hyde was written in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Before we get into all the heavy and dense material, let’s first see what we are dealing with as a book. I use the phrase “chemical dependency” because it is never stated in the novel just exactly what Jekyll is ingesting (always speak in the present tense when discussing a novel). Hyde illustrates a moralistic attitude to addiction” (Mathiasen 492). The story, or the novel the tale comes from was not just about a mad scientist it was about watching a man of high aristocratic stature become consumed by the power of chemical addiction or “The story of Dr Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. This is correct in saying but the entire story and its multifaceted elements are missing. ![]() Hyde at its most basic level an educated man creates a potion that transforms him into a creature that terrorizes London’s nighttime streets. “My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring” (Stevenson 79). ![]()
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