“He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.”

Book: Hyde's a normal looking guy who gives off unsettling vibes.

Every adaptation ever: Got it. Giant green monster or actual prehistoric being.

"The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue... changed to a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green." —The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Thinking about how Utterson cared so much for a friend, to the point of having nightmares about him possibly being hurt, to the point of staking out the home of someone he thought might cause his friend harm, reading his friend’s final letter in which he tells him just how much he hid from Utterson, how ashamed of himself he was and yet how indulgent he was in those shames once he found a way to do it without anyone knowing it was him. Thinking about how Utterson realized the man he was about to attack, who he thought may have harmed or killed his friend, was the very friend he was so worried about. Thinking about Utterson realizing his friend was a murderer, was guilty of all the things Hyde did over the course of the story, realizing a man he trusted and cared for so deeply hid so much from him. Thinking about Utterson wondering why Jekyll didn’t tell him anything, what he may have done or said that made Jekyll unable to trust him with that information. Thinking about Utterson realizing all the things he said about Hyde in front of Jekyll, he was saying about Jekyll to his face.

Henriel shippers will casually just write the most devastating and life altering things like it's nothing like guys stop please I'm in shambles rn what is wrong with y'all.../pos

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Yeah that last post? That was about these sorry

Beaming them into your skull sorry I felt brave today

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ROUND ONE: 02/06/2023 - 02/13/2023.

Was anyone going to tell me, a person who didn't attend English-speaking high school and didn't have to read "Strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde", that what was going on WASN'T two ppl living in one head????

I was getting around reading the book bc it a classic, but I was procrastinating bc I THOUGHT I knew the plot. But recently I was made aware by the Internet that apparently Jekyll and Hyde are "the same person" as in IT'S THE SAME DUDE CHANGING HOW HIS FLESH LOOKS SO HE CAN INDULGE IN SOCIALLY-FROWNED-UP-ON ACTIVITIES

I thought I couldn't get this book spoiled to me any more, but here I am. Absolutely mind-blown that this ISN'T a split personality situation. Pop culture has lied to me (and I'm not surprised)

I'm beginning to think Mr. Hyde might be problematic.

Can you expand on The Invisible Man being a riff on Jekyll and Hyde?

It's not by any means conclusive as to how much inspiration he drew, but in 1896, Wells wrote to his agent James Brand Pinker that he wanted to send off a story of "25,000 to 30,000 words for bookstalls," describing it as:

"[...] either a not too horrible horror--nothing repulsive you may be assured--or a fantastic humoresque as the idea might direct. A Jekyll & Hyde if I can--but I make no promises [...]"

While I suppose it could be the case that Wells was only thinking of Jekyll & Hyde in terms of length, the fact that the title came up in the drafting process convinces me at least that there's a meaningful connection--especially given that both stories involve a man taking on a chemical experiment that splinters him off from human society, chilling transformations before a mirror, and the climactic beating death of an old man.

Edward Hyde

Henry Jekyll really took “be gay do crime” to a whole new level

"Mostly Mr. Hyde" is about my depression and anger management issues, which sometimes cause me to emotionally lash out at my loved ones. I recently started therapy so I can learn better ways to cope. I'm trying to be less negative and more in control. However, I also know that I should give myself credit for the good I do each day - and you should too.

"I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde."

"His terror of the gallows drove him continually to com mit 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. Hence the apelike tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father; and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin. But his love of life is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him."

to me these are one of the most beautiful passages from the book, to see jekyll describing hyde in a way that makes him look like a divine creature, just for a moment, but it's so bewildering to me and the second passage where jekyll talks about how hyde's love of life is wonderful and that after all he still found it in his heart to pity him. it really leaves me wonderstruck, there are so many things i wanna say about this book and even more things to discover about it and im so glad to have been a part of the jekyll and hyde weekly it really was an amazing experience to read my favourite book again with other people and seeing different opinions and points of view. thank you all <3