“It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself and alas! six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire, the pangs returned, and the drug had to be re-administered.” “and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.” The negative effects of drugs and the associated shame and secrecy. Never having read the book before, the thing I was most struck with was its apparent concern with drug addiction. You know before reading it that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, it has entered our language. Other reviews have dwelt on themes of duality etc and others still correctly state that the impact of this book is lessened by how much of its plot is already in the collective consciousness of readers.
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