Mr Hyde
Inner monster unleashed
Mr Hyde is the evil alter ego of Dr Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, a respectable physician who transforms into a murderous creature through a potion of his own invention.
The name has become shorthand for a person's hidden dark side or violent nature: When he drinks, his Mr Hyde comes out.
Someone with unpredictable mood swings might be called a Jekyll and Hyde.
- evilProfound moral wickedness
- dualityTwofold nature
- dual naturePossessing two inherent aspects
- split personalityFragmented identity disorder
- transformationThorough change in form
monster · Victorian · Victorian London · potion · alter ego · dark side · inner demon · darkness · Stevenson · penny dreadful · split · sinister · London · fog · cane · murderer · laboratory · repression
- Horror IconsFreddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Chucky
- literary villainsIago, Lady Macbeth, Moriarty, Voldemort, Dracula
- transformationchange, metamorphosis, morphing, shape-shifting, shapeshifting
- Victorian fictionJane Eyre, gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- silent film charactersNosferatu, Maria, Quasimodo, Zorro, Phantom of the Opera
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
moral character
Mr Hydesaint
Canonized holy person
angel · Good Samaritan · innocent · humanitarian · guardian angel