hide-bound is an old term (derived from a dry animal hide) meaning someone who is inflexible or ultraconservative; an interesting pun on "Hyde" coming from Dr. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from the other. This new edition gives the classic tale of depraved murder and unrelenting horror its most complete and illuminating presentation yet.

However, Hyde's handwriting is similar to Jekyll's own, leading Utterson to conclude that Jekyll forged the note to protect Hyde.

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In this case, the two personalities in Dr Jekyll are apparently good and evil, with completely opposite levels of morality.he asked; and when his companion had replied in the affirmative, "It is connected in my mind," added he, "with a very odd story.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.Acts 16:26, when God causes an earthquake at the prison in Philippi, where Paul and Silas are held, "immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bands were loosed. according to the OED "a visible but unsubstantial appearance, an image caused by reflexion as in a mirror", the OED then quotes the above passage by Stevenson as an example. e. the use of terms implying kinship, sheltering and garments) makes it plausible that, in a work interspersed with elements of the “penny dreadful” and the police novel, Stevenson might also have been carrying an ethico-cognitive study, and intentionally testing the limits of individual moral responsibility; his novella seems to have reached the conclusion that one cannot escape one’s own conscience.