Topic > Character Analysis of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1018

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Hyde is "pure evil". At the beginning of the film, Mary Poppins measures herself with a tape measure and it reads "Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way" (Mary Poppins). This separates Mary Poppins from the other characters in the film. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson shows Mr. Hyde as "pure evil." When Mr. Utterson visits Dr. Jekyll, he says, “I read Satan's signature on a face, it is on that of your new friend” (Stevenson 18). Mr. Utterson compares Mr. Hyde to Satan, showing that he is certainly “pure evil.” Stevenson used hellish imagery to describe Mr. Hyde. In Dr. Jekyll's complete statement, Dr. Jekyll states, "All human beings, as we meet them, are separate from good and evil: and Edward Hyde was pure evil" (Stevenson 84). Unlike the others, Mr. Hyde is “pure evil.” Even in the Complete Declaration of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll describes Mr. Hyde as “utterly evil” (Stevenson 85). All this evidence shows how evil and malevolent Mr. Hyde is. Also, Mr. Hyde and Mary Poppins are complete