Friday, February 15, 2019

It is about drugs?





The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is fascinating, atmospheric, and has long been used as an early modern story testing the hypothesis of scientific psychology and its categories of split personalities.

But it seems this book could also be about drug use.  Jekyll turns to Hyde after using a drug, and craves it repeatedly.  Eventually, it kills him. Is this an early tale of how addicted people are fundamentally different on drugs, how their lives are all about the drug, and nothing else?

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