“I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil…“ Jekyll realizes the realities of his darker side when he transforms into Hyde, showing the struggle between maintaining appearances and acknowledging reality.
Motif of doors
Emphasizes the gap between appearance and reality
Outside the door
"smooth-faced man of around 50"
Inside the door
"damned juggernaut" with a "displeasing smile" and an "impression of deformity"
Stevenson uses the door
To convey the message that even the most 'respectable' gentlemen have an evil side to them
Jekyll and Hyde
Duality of man when Jekyll takes the potion and turns into Hyde, the less respectable part of Jekyll
Suggests that the more the Edwardian gentleman of the Edwardian era try to suppress their 'evil' side, the more it provokes it to release
doors become a metaphor of transition in the novel
