What is Hyde afraid of most that causes him to willingly turn back into Jekyll?

He fears the gallows and so he must dash back into Jekyll's body for safety, but he does so resentfully, and he takes out his raging hate by scribbling blasphemies in the margins of my books.
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What is Mr Hyde afraid of?

We know that Hyde is afraid of death (and probably the Hell that, according to Victorian England, awaits him) and that the threat of suicide is Jekyll's only weapon against him.
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What makes Hyde become Jekyll?

Lanyon's and Jekyll's documents reveal that Jekyll had secretly developed a potion to allow him to separate the good and evil aspects of his personality. He was thereby able at will to change into his increasingly dominant evil counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
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What does Hyde do while he waits to change back into Jekyll?

He takes the potion and transforms back into Dr. Jekyll. He therefore does not succeed in creating someone wholly good and someone wholly evil, but rather himself and a wholly evil version of himself. He makes various arrangements for his new self: a house, a housekeeper, a new will, etc.
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What does he fear Hyde may be motivated to do?

What does Utterson fear Hyde might do? Why? He fears that he might murder Jekyll to get the inheritance.
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What does Utterson fear Hyde might?

What does Utterson fear Hyde might do? Why? Utterson is afraid that Hyde might kill Jekyll because "if this Hyde suspects the existence of the will, he may grow impatient to inherit."
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What keeps Mr. Hyde from committing suicide?

what keeps hyde from committing suicide? it was the unspoken impurity that led to his success of the potion. the impure salts is no mere accident; there must be an existence of an undefined grey area.
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How does Hyde show his hatred to Jekyll?

Hyde show his hatred of Dr. Jekyll? Hyde writes, in Jekyll's handwriting, "blasphemies" in Jekyll's books, burns his letters and destroys the portrait of his father.
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What are the main reasons that Jekyll tries to cast off his Hyde nature forever why does Jekyll's lower nature come to dominate him?

What are the main reasons that Jekyll tries to cast off his Hyde nature forever? Hyde is taking over and Jekyll is changing without using the potion. Hyde is growing in stature; Jekyll is shrinking, showing his evil side is growing. Jekyll longs for his former boring life where he has friends and is loved.
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What happened to Mr. Hyde at the end?

In season six, Mr. Hyde strikes up an allegiance with Regina Mills' Evil Queen side. It's revealed that Jekyll's serum failed to remove his capacity for evil and he is killed by Captain Hook which causes Hyde to die as well as a side effect of the serum.
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When he came to himself at Lanyon's house what fear replaces Jekyll's fear of the gallows?

When he came to himself at Lanyon's house, what fear replaces Jekyll's "fear of the gallows"? The horror of being Hyde.
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What motivates Dr. Jekyll's experiment?

He says that he was motivated by dark urges such as ambition and pride when he first drank the liquid and that these allowed for the emergence of Hyde. He seems to imply that, had he entered the experiment with pure motives, an angelic being would have emerged.
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Why is Mr Hyde scary?

Hyde is so terrifying to readers because he is "deformed" — visibly disfigured and physically impaired. She points to Stevenson's dehumanization of Hyde as "hardly human" and a "disgustful curiosity" — he is not so much a person as something to be feared and hated through the lens of his disfigurement.
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What evil things did Hyde do?

Hyde murders Carew and tramples on a little girl causing her legs to break. ... with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows. The use of the simile 'ape-like fury' describes Hyde as an animal capable of rages, not a human.
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Is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde scary?

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931). But that one is hard to top. It is still very scary.
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Why did Dr. Jekyll want to get rid of Mr. Hyde?

Jekyll And Mr Hyde Duality

Jekyll is a respected man, but out of his intentions to stay good comes an intense evil. He wanted to keep his good name, yet find a way to unleash his evil side. When Mr. Hyde is created it is with good intensions, but soon the evil becomes overwhelming and begins to control Mr.
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How did Edward Hyde feel as he killed Sir Danvers?

As the novel progresses, Hyde's evil becomes more and more pronounced. He bludgeons Sir Danvers Carew to death for absolutely no reason other than the fact that Sir Danvers appeared to be a good and kindly man — and pure evil detests pure goodness.
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What happens at the end of Jekyll and Hyde?

Jekyll tries to control his alter ego, Hyde, and for a while, Jekyll has the power. However, towards the end of the novel, Hyde takes over and this results in their deaths.
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How is Hyde presented as an inhumane and disturbed character?

Throughout the novel, Mr Hyde is presented as an animalistic figure that lacks empathy for others when committing brutal acts of violence. When attacking the old gentleman, Hyde's “ape-like fury” as he tramples his victim creates a separation from humanity, entering the barbaric during this criminal act.
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Is Dr. Jekyll responsible for Mr. Hyde's actions?

For it is Jekyll who brings Hyde into being, clearly knowing that he embodies pure evil. Jekyll therefore bears responsibility for Hyde's actions. Indeed, his willingness to convince himself otherwise suggests, again, that the darker half of the man has the upper hand, even when he is Jekyll and not Hyde.
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Why does he reversed his initial choice and once again become Hyde?

Why does Jekyll reverse his initial choice and once again become Hyde? Because he never got rid of the house in SoHo, he had to destroy papers and clothes, and just the facf that it has been so long since he was Hyde.
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When Jekyll tells Utterson that Hyde's will never be seen again?

5: When Jekyll tells Utterson that Hyde will never be seen again, do you think he means it? No, because he's an addict.
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What is repression in Jekyll and Hyde?

In the final chapter of the novel, Jekyll describes the unintended effect of repression. Jekyll compares his position to a drunkard's, saying that both himself as Hyde, and a person who is intoxicated, are reduced to a state of animalistic impulses. Neither are in possession of reason.
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Why does Hyde become angry with Utterson?

He gives Utterson “a number of a street in Soho.” 14. Why does Hyde become angry with Utterson? Utterson tells Hyde that they have a mutual friend – Dr. Jekyll – but Hyde does not believe Utterson and accuses him of lying.
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How is Hyde presented as a terrifying character?

One of the most effective ways Stevenson uses to illustrate Mr Hyde as a frightening outsider is through his behaviour. Before Mr Hyde lets Mr Utterson into his home, Mr Hyde `snarled aloud into a savage laugh and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
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