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Jekyll & Hyde - duality 3

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Through the whole of the story Jekyll sets out to achieve one goal: to try and separate his good and evil sides. He wants to prove that his friend, Dr Lanyon, and could be called his rival when forgetting their friendship, is wrong. In the final chapter of the book, titled: Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case', refers to his life and the creation of Hyde. He talks about Hyde as if he were another person, having nothing to do with himself at all: '...I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde'. The more important point to be made here is the idea that Jekyll wants to be famous. Examples would be the ways in which he refers to Hyde as being a discovery ('had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit'), and his over confident guess that others will follow in...

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