Are they supposed to be the same person? Mary mentions how her father had a strange way of walking, and the maids and servants talk about Mr. Hyde’s strange way of walking. Mary also mentions how her father would drink, and turn into a totally different person. Just like when Dr. Jekyll drinks the potion he turns into a totally different person.Did anyone else notice it?
"Now where was I..."- Memento
There was definately supposed to be a connection between the two, but they are also definately different people. i think it was mostly the concept of " it was like he carried another person inside of him and the drinking brought it out". The original Jekyll and hyde story is all about human duality and i think the comparison between hyde and her father was just to show that hyde wasn't an anomaly
shareNot the same person, just some foreshadowing and rounding out the story by drawing the characters closer. From the outside, we could see Mary's father's drunken behavior and shuffling as the simple result of alcoholism. Dr Jekyll proposes, and Mary has a feeling, that there is more to it than that; that people have an inner evil that "comes out", resulting in an almost seperate personality...a personality which is stunted or "crippled" by it's own darkness. With the foreshadowed comparison between Hyde and Mary's father, we see the good/evil interaction as more complex than what we could have originally took it for..in other words, evil of this sort isn't limited to strange potions and midnight murders, it is all around in the most "ordinary" of ways.
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I was hoping Hyde would kill the father
then eat his liver
Everyday I learn something new!
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To add to that, it is interesting to note that Hyde killed a rat in the brothel rather viciously, which could possibly be seen as retaliation for what was done to Mary. I also thought it would have been very interesting to see him go after the father.
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The original story is really a parable against drinking. People noticed that under alcohol people could seem completely different. Stevenson thought, why not write a story where that actually happens.
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