| 词汇 | doctor jekyll and mr hyde |
| 词源 | Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Dr. Jekyll, a physician, discovers a drug that creates in him a per- sonality that absorbs all his evil instincts. This personality, which he calls Mr. Hyde, is repulsive in appearance and gradu- ally gains control of him until he finally commits a horrible murder. Jekyll can rid himself of Hyde only by committing sui- cide. Stevenson, who wrote the novel in three days locked in his study after he had had a dream about the story, based the main character on an Edinburgh cabinetmaker and deacon named William Brodie (1741–88), who was a “double being,” by day a respected businessman and by night the leader of a gang of burglars. Brodie was finally hanged for his crimes, but Steven- son, who was raised in Edinburgh, knew his story well and in fact wrote a play entitled Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life when he was only 15. This was the germ of the idea for the later work. |
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