#Dr.Jekill&Mr.Hyde

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Dr.Jekill and Mr.Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Marvel Classics Comics - Cover by Gil Kane

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The Strange new Case of Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde

In the original Story Dr. Jekill was the enbodiment of a good man. He was a Doctor, he was nice to evrybody, he was hard working. he was everything, but human. perfect for the Victorian times.

I mean look at Hyde and how he is portrait as in the Books, he shows the evil side , but think how this would be done today. He would be shown as a mass murderer and even more. but in the Books he is just not good looking and mean. The climax of the story is that he kills one, just one man. Which yes, is terrible, but not over the top ike modern Hollywood movies. He is more what hapens when a broken man suddently does everything without fearing consequences.

And then the wonderful Comic Artist Sabrina Cotugno  did a reboot in her fantastic Comic : The glass scientist .

The interessting Thing is the modern view on these Figures Dr.Jekill and Mr.Hyde, because we as a society have come quite a way since the victorian times ( I can’t believe it too ).

In her Comic we see the downside of being Dr.Jekill, we see a broken man who wants nothing more that to be good, but is crushed under his own expectations, somebody who is longing for freedom. The reason why Hyde exist. What im trying to say is that the Comic, better than every movie adaptation, grasps the core of the Story. That it isn’t about Good or Bad. Neither Dr. jekill nor Hyde is good. It is about Freedom and Society.

It is more about what you are willing to do to fit in Society or what you think you have to do and this pressure of perfection, which is, with Burnout being quite a “popular” illness, a modern problem. It is also the modern conflict of how you want to live your life, because many want to live the life of Hyde or Think that Hyde is the good one. In the Comic he doesn’t kill anybody because he is evil ( even when he says he is) but because of an accident.

He is the Freedome that many want today, to travel ,to party without thinking of tomorrow etc. which isn’t seen as bad today, to go even further. many would say that Hyde had made the right decisions, because life is about enyoing life and not your achivements.

It is about what counts in the end.

What im trying to say in my..rambling is that the glass scientist or the strange case of Dr.Jekill and Mr.Hyde is an old but also a quite modern Story.

The only thing that Changes is the interpretation.