![]() ![]() ![]() In this setting the novel seems to hint at the insufficiency or even obsolescence of science. The laboratory is the main setting of the mysterious events in the story, but far from being a place of science and medicine, the lab is deserted and strange, more Gothic than a place of science. Jekyll permanently removed from his educated, medical self. ![]() Hyde-is something beyond reason, which shocks and overwhelms the sensitive intellectual dispositions of the other characters and leaves Dr. This inclusion of a spiritual side to Jekyll’s philosophy shows his to be a mind unlike those of the lawyers and doctors of his society, who restrict themselves to traditional reason. Jekyll confesses at the end of the novel that he has been fascinated by the duality of man and has taken to both chemical and mystical methods to try to get to the truth. Hyde creates a tension between the world of reason and science and the world of the supernatural, and seems to suggest the limits of reason in its inability to understand or cope with the supernatural phenomena that take place. ![]()
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