Q: “And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life. The hatred of Hyde for Jekyll was of a different order. His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was himself regarded.”

C: When I read this quote it totally gave me chills. That death of self. Jekyll’s base desires were so strong that he became unrecognizable. While Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, share the same consciousness towards the end they are almost described as two different people. It is not like Hyde had no remorse at all, he knew after he killed that man that he had made a mistake and decided that to make sure Jekyll never got hurt that he would end them. When Jekyll would fall asleep and wake up as Hyde I can’t imagine how terrifying that would be. In a way, we all enjoy our anonymity online imagine if we just lost that. Everyone would know where we lived and everything we said the world watches us but we can still pretend. I am not sure what else to say about this quote, I just really love it.

Q: While Hyde and therefore Jekyll needs to be held responsible for their actions, do you think Hyde feels any remorse for killing the man as I stated?