Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde

While reading the book Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde I noticed that there are quite some

controversial issues in this novel. Here you have a man who has a problem that only he

and two of his friends knows about. However, his friends did not find out for sure about

the speculations they were having until it was too late. Once Utterson and Lanyon found

out about Jekyll it was too late because Jekyll was already addicted to his experiment.

As if it was a drug, Dr. Jekyll would continuously drink a potion that turned him

into the evil Mr. Hyde. The experiment started out as a hopeful experiment that maybe if

he found a way to alter a good ego to a bad one, he could do it in reverse. It seems as if

Jekyll had the right intentions, but his experiment got out of control. At one point in the

book when the altered ego was brought up to the doctor he turned pale in color. “ I have

been learning something of young Hyde.” “ The large handsome face of Dr. J...