ave a very hard time getting rid of the Mr. Hyde in him. He assures Utterson, “the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde. I give you my hand upon that” (57). He thinks that every time he drinks the potion, Hyde will go away, but it’s not that easy. Every time Hyde emerges, he becomes stronger and starts to take control over Jekyll and his body. Hyde’s capacity for evil increases. Hyde then murders Sir Dancers during the full moon, the time when evil beings commit their most heinous crimes. As soon as Jekyll regains control over his body, he realizes what Hyde has done and fully rejects Hyde, the evil persona. The symbolism that once Jekyll has rejected Hyde, he changes completely because he has purged himself of some “disease” that has been eating away at him. His sickness also symbolizes his sick conscience that is shocked that such a horrible murder has been committed by him. An old friend of Dr. Jekyll’s, Dr. Lanyon, was Jekyll’s confidant. Even though Dr. Lanyon has disapproved of Dr. Jekyll on professional grounds, that Jekyll’s metaphysical speculations about human behavior transcend the true limits of physical medicine, that his ideas were too “fanciful”. At the time when Jekyll was in need of help getting control over Hyde, he asked Lanyon to retrieve ingredients for the potion and to meet him at about midnight at Lanyon’s house. Hyde appeared and Lanyon had no idea that it was really Jekyll. Before Hyde drinks the potion, he taunts Lanyon by questioning, “Will you be wise? Will you be guided? Will you suffer me to take this glass in my hand and to go forth from your house without further parley? Or has the greed of curiosity too much command of you? Think before you answer, for it shall be done as you decide. As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of counted as a kind of riches of the so...
