Carmen H. Response 6

Overall the Novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is nothing but endless suspense throughout. Its incredibly chilling and has many more Gothic features than any other novel from the course so far. One of the most interesting and scary parts of the novel is in page 69, when Mr. Hyde is conversing with, whom we later learn is, Sir Danvers Carew, but then without warning a horrific scene is presented, “And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the road-way” (Stevenson 69). There are so many violence coming from that little dude. Mind-boggling, shocking, psychopathic, inhumane, absurd act of cruelty. And to think that we, humans, all have that one side that always want to unleash our inner fury, our rage, our distress, but we never let that get to us, because we, the sane, are not raised so evil. This brings us to a very controversial question of “What is Sanity?” Is sanity associated with pure good. Or is it associated with norms that will justify us to qualify within a specific society? Does this describes Mr. Hyde as insane, because he is not particularly popular, and yet he is a being that commit acts of murder with no conditional judgment of any kind? There is absolutely no rationalization that will justify his deeds, but except the action upon a reaction. He does this things based on what he feels, his first instinct. Our own unconscious evil that lingers within our shadows.