Character/Theme

Though The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde has a variety of personas that catches the readers attention I was most drawn to Dr. Jekyll, the remarkably intelligent scientist.But why not chose Mr.Utterson, the lawyer who cant decipher an answer to a mystery if it slapped him in the face or Mr.Hyde a rather repulsive character who we are more eager to learn about each day. Well here is why I went with my decision, since the beginning of the time  Dr.Jekyll was introduced to me in this novel I have always questioned his personality and odd nature. I soon learned that Dr.Jekyll lived a life of solitude and did not like to engage in conference but yet the way Mr.Utterson said he used to be did not measure up to how he was now, if not he became the complete opposite. As I continued to acquire more knowledge on this mysterious character I discovered that he had a tie to this so called Mr.Hyde almost an apprentice of some sort who was described as a deformed unimaginable human being. As time went on Mr.Hyde was caught to have man slaughtered Sir Danvers Carew and vanished from the small english town. It was at this point in the story that I was able to see Dr.Jekyll in the disposition Mr.Utterson had described him in, a well respected man of high stature who loved to spend leisure time with close friends. I found it very abnormal for a person to have such change in attitude after the disappearance of such a hated man. This led me to having scary predictions on the relationship between Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. I felt that Dr.Jekyll's obsession of science led to the relationship between him and Mr.Hyde and his peculiar mood changes in the novel. In the end I understood the message Stevenson was trying to convey to his audience, though science is a wonderful and exciting topic it can lead to a negative change in a person and end up ruining their close connections with not only their friends but the world and reality as a whole.