Dr. Jekyll
Hidden monster within
Dr.
Jekyll is the respectable half of a split personality, from Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a scientist whose potion releases his evil alter ego, Mr.
Hyde.
The name invokes hidden duality—someone decent on the surface concealing a darker self: He's a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Usually appears in the paired phrase.
- potionEnchanted liquid mixture
- experimentSystematic investigation procedure
- alter egoA secondary persona
- dark sideHidden negative aspect
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
Robert Louis Stevenson · good and evil · novella · Victorian London · darkness · duality · conscience · gentleman · gaslight · transformation · respectable · ethics · guilty conscience · madness · double life · hidden self · character · fog
- Stevenson CharactersLong John Silver, Jim Hawkins, Mr. Hyde, Captain Flint, Poole
- literary charactersSherlock Holmes, Scout Finch, Elizabeth Bennet, Macbeth, Huck Finn
- Mad Scientistmad scientist, secret lab, lab coat, laboratory, evil genius
- Mad Scientistsmad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Moreau, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein
- StevensonTreasure Island, Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, Mr. Hyde, Hispaniola
- Victorian literatureDickens, Charles Dickens, Victorian novel, Victorian literature, Victorian novels
dual nature/alter ego
Dr. JekyllMr. Hyde
Transformed evil persona
Edward Hyde · Hyde · the monster · monster · beast