Dr. Jekyll's Strange Case in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

This thesis discusses about Dr. Jekyll’s strange case in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde novel. The writer analyzes this novel because because this novel has an actual issues about scientific experiments, discoveries and technology that can affect humans, become better or worse, and also the writer wants to know what the strange case that happen in Dr. Jekyll is. The method of the research is descriptive qualitative. To know the strange case of Dr. Jekyll the writer should know the character and characterization of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde first. So the writer uses new criticism theory that focused on character, characterizatio, and the plot of the story. To conduct this study, the writer takes the data from the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Furthermore, the researcher uses book and online sources in order to get more information in doing analysis. The results of this study indicated that the strange case of Dr. Jekyll is multiple personality. In addition, Dr. Jekyll tried to separate the good side and the bad side that was inside him. He had made research for years, and as a result he created two concoctions, the one that first transformed him into Mr. Hyde, an evil, ugly, dwarf, very arrogant and inhumane. While, the other concoction was used to turn itself back into Dr. Jekyll as a good person, handsome, tall, white, and smooth-faced man of fifty. The multiple personality of Dr. This Jekyll was revealed by himself to his best friend named Lanyon. But in the end the bad side of Dr. Jekyll is more dominating himself, and he belief that his experiments have failed to make him suffer and decide to end his life by suicide.