Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike”. Hyde, but of those who did, not a single person had anything good to say about him. There were very few people who knew of Mr. Hyde is pure evil, he is all of the bad parts of Jekyll bottled up he was a mad man who did whatever he wanted, and he embodies all that was socially unacceptable in the Victorian Society. This trench he physiologically gives him the ability to only feel guilt when he is physically Jekyll, Hyde does whatever he wants with no remorse. He believes there is strictly a good side and a bad side in him that is separated by a trench.

Jekyll talks about the dual nature of man “… that man is not truly one, but truly two”. Jekyll felt immense guilt for his temptations but having a separate person to blame those temptations on, Hyde gave him a sense of relief. Concealing these feelings and temptations at such a young age caused Jekyll to have a split personality, “…I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life”. It is the basis for many adaptations to the screen, most notably in 1931 starring Fredric March and in 1941 featuring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner.Repression played a huge part in Jekyll’s life, he constantly felt the need to push his feelings and temptations down for fear of how someone might view him if they found out what he was thinking. Hyde, I think it is because we fear our own secret selves' (Jack Williamson). When we recoil in terror from the selfish savagery of Mr. 'When we thrill to the shock and horror of the story, I think it is because we all, at least to some degree, have been torn by internal conflict. 'It is a Faustian moral fable which takes the form of a tale of mystery and horror… is the prototype of all stories of multiple personality, transformation and possession… The psychological power of the writing, including Jekyll's agonies, is patent' (Clute & Nicholls, 1165). 'Published as a 'shilling shocker,' a form at that time in fashion, it became instantly popular was quoted from a thousand pulpits was translated into German, French and Danish and the names of its two chief characters have passed into the common stock of proverbial allusion' (DNB). Leaping to life out of a 'fine bogey dream' from which the author's wife abruptly awakened him, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde proved 'immediately and lastingly Stevenson's most famous story' (Baugh et al., 1499). 'If Dracula leaves one with the sensation of having been struck down by a massive, 400-page wall of horror, then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden, mortal jab of an ice pick' (Stephen King). First editions in the original wrappers are rare.

Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. Octavo, original wrappers, advertisements. $7,500.00 Item Number: 110275įirst edition, first issue with the publication date on the upper wrapper altered by hand of Stevenson’s classic book.

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