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Jekyll and Hyde
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Widely used names for the contrasting sides of a single personality, deriving from Robert Louis *Stevenson's psychological horror story The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Jekyll is fascinated by the good and evil aspects of his own nature, and develops a drug which will isolate the evil part of himself as the repulsive Mr Hyde. But Hyde acquires an almost independent demonic career and eventually commits a murder, while Jekyll finds it harder and harder to escape back to his own full identity. On the verge of his secret being discovered, he commits suicide.
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