Defining the Life of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The focus of this essay is to define the life of Dr. Henry Jekyll and the transformation he underwent in becoming Edward Hyde . Dr. Henry Jekyll is a doctor in London. He is highly respected and is currently experiencing the dual nature of humanity. Edward Hyde is a manifestation of Dr. Jekyll's personality. He is accused of committing evil acts throughout the novel. The first scene consists of Mr Richard Enfield and Mr Utterson walking along a street in London. Mr. Enfield has a memory of a previous incident in which he saw an extremely unpleasant man trample on a screaming little girl while this man was running somewhere. A large crowd had gathered around and they saw the man, Edward Hyde. The crowd forced the man to give money to the girl for trampling on her. Hyde didn't run her over for any reason. He did it simply out of spite and malice. It represents all the evil in the world. The reaction of others towards him is one of horror because, looking at him, the others feel the desire to hit him and kill him. His physical appearance brings out the worst evil in other people. Since Hyde represents evil, he is symbolically represented as much smaller than Doctor Jekyll. I believe Dr. Jekyll created Hyde because he had a theory that man has a good side and a bad side. While investigating this, he developed a potion that could release the evil in a person in the form of a totally different person. So this person could commit any evil act they wanted and then drink the potion to return to normal. The only problem is the fact that he drank this potion so many times that he was no longer able to control this process. He failed to transform back into Doctor Jekyll. Another example of Hyde's wickedness is the killing of Sir Danvers Carew. It appears that Sir Danvers was killed for no apparent reason. Sir Danvers' murder was seen by a maid working nearby. He states that Hyde meets a man on the street. After the exchange of words, Mr. Hyde raised his heavy walking stick and struck the old man to death.