The Curiousness of the Bad-Nature of Persons

 Author's Note to General Public: This is a response to the question of my thoughts so far in the first three chapters of the book, "Jekyll and Hyde"; which is, by the way, an interesting story, which may seem confusing at first -- but I am told that it becomes more intriguing.

 To be wholly good would mean getting rid of all evilness.  If there is but a stink of some distasteful emotion or feeling or act or personality, we try to rid ourselves of the stench because there is something inside of us all that long to be good, and to not do bad things. 

Mr. Utterson is introduced in the book “Jekyll and Hyde” as being a very proper man, doing all the right things for he had the demeanor “in a similar catholicity of good-nature” (38).   He is the absolute appearance of a good and trusted man, and his friends tell him “’I would trust you before any man alive [even] myself’” (57).  Among others, he is one to be trusted and he is very sure of himself; he is also quite alarmed at the taste of evil and bad. 

When a Mr. Hyde enters the scene, Mr. Utterson’s calm, normal, and contented journey of life, takes a left turn.  Deformity threw him off in displeasure, for he had escaped those feelings and actions for so long, and had left them in such a formidable and forgotten attic that the new appearance of such a “creature” stirred up new emotion which he could not figure out to be good, or as something which belonged in the sound town he lived in.  This Mr. Hyde is seen as having “something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable” (43).  So long had it been that the “doors” of their town had been darkened with such a man, and Mr. Utterson, the lawyer, had difficulty accepting such an appearance, “I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why” (43).                                                                                                                   

Morals makes up our instinctual thoughts, and when a man who interrupts the moral connection, there is a disturbance on which awakens the soul, and that brings Utterson to full alert.  When distracting morals catch a person’s thoughts, they become curious, just like Mr. Utterson wondering about Mr. Hyde. Perhaps he will in the future want to understand Hyde and the answers he receives may bring him into a new life in which he doesn't belong; for he is a very proper and put-together man.