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Alexx Kay ([personal profile] alexxkay) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2025-11-23 05:15 am (UTC)

...Jekyll murder people on his own account: you're just not getting back to Stevenson from there)

I feel like most adaptations of the story overlook how morally compromised Stevenson's Jekyll is. His creation of Hyde is quite deliberate. He's not trying to destroy the evil parts of his personality, he is creating a persona out of those parts which can do those things and *not feel guilt*. My read is that Jekyll is fully as capable of direct evil action as Hyde is, he just feels guilty when he does.

I mean, Sister Hyde is miles away from RLS on so many other axes... but I don't think a homicidal Jekyll is inherently disqualifying.

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