Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Research Paper

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Drug addiction is one of the many difficulties people struggle with and like any other addictions or bad habits, it is very hard to break. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll has created a potion that will turn him into Mr. Hyde and is in a way, a drug. Dr. Jekyll starts to realize the side effects of the drug on his health and his actions. Dr. Henry Jekyll starts to feel these effects in his reasoning, his thought process, and his daily interactions with other people conveying that there will always be consequences for your actions. The continuous use of the drug starts to affect Dr. Jekyll’s ability to reason. In chapter three, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson are eating dinner and Dr. Jekyll says that at the “moment [he] choose, [he] can be rid of Mr. Hyde” (Stevenson 13). It is common for drug addicts to start to say that they can quit at any moment, but they are in denial. Dr. Jekyll is now thinking to himself that he can continue taking the drug and he will be able to stop any …show more content…
In chapter ten, in Jekyll’s letter, he says that “there was something strange in [his] sensations, something indescribably new and, from its novelty, incredibly sweet” (Stevenson 44). Previously, he stated that the drug had the potential to kill him. Dr. Jekyll knows how incredible this drug makes him feel and he does not want to give that up, even if that means giving up his life as well. Also in chapter ten, while Dr. Jekyll is at the park, he had a “vainglorious thought” (Stevenson 50) and transformed into Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde’s thoughts are taking over the way that Jekyll thinks by converting the kind and caring thoughts into evil and devilish thoughts. Hyde is interfering with Jekyll’s calm and collective thoughts with his evil and destructive thoughts. Dr. Jekyll is starting to not be capable of his own thoughts and not being able to make appropriate