In the end of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll express his feelings about his redemption while he was confessing in a letter to Mr. Utterson. Dr. Jekyll was confessing about his experiment, the creation of Hyde, and Hyde’s crimes which were also his. Dr. Jekyll is redeeming about the creation of Hyde, his other half. At the end he wanted to reverse the transformation from Hyde to Jekyll but wasn’t able to because the drugs were killing him and making Hyde stronger. Jekyll tried to get rid of Hyde, however, Hyde was getting stronger and Jekyll couldn’t control the transition between the transformations of the two characters. Jekyll feels guilty that his other half is evil and that he is capable of really unforgettable things such as the the death of Sir Danvers who Hyde killed with a wooden stick and the little girl he walk over in the street. Jekyll confesses of how he had to lived a dual life with two different houses and with two different bodies, and very different characters. At one point Jekyll realized that he needed to choose on of his half. And at the end he chose his original self even if he was old and his other half was younger. Therefore, he chose himself because Hyde was pure evil, a very angry man who people didn’t give much attention, someone who was alone without friends who didn’t exist while he was Jekyll a man with a fine figure and many friends, someone well known. Jekyll feels guilty because whatever Hyde did he did too because at the end they were the same person. Hyde did things that his other half would have never done like being a murderer or treating people badly by being rude and angry with so much rage.
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