Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)

Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alternative personality, Mr Edward Hyde, is a fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Fictional character biography

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a "large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty with something of a slyish cast", who occasionally feels he is battling between the good and evil within himself, thus leading to the struggle between his dual personalities of Jekyll and Edward Hyde. He has spent a great part of his life trying to repress evil urges that were not fitting for a man of his stature. He creates a serum, or potion, in an attempt to mask this hidden evil within his personality. However, in doing so, Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hyde, a hideous, evil creature without compassion or remorse. Jekyll has many friends and has a friendly personality, but as Hyde, he becomes mysterious and violent. As time goes by, Hyde grows in power. After taking the potion repetitively, he no longer relies upon it to unleash his inner demon i.e., his alter ego. Eventually, Hyde grows to be stronger than Jekyll.

Minor characters in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Criminalists

Holly Gribbs (Chandra West, season 1); a CSI Level I.

Michael Keppler (Liev Schreiber, season 7); a CSI Level III Assistant Supervisor.

Ronnie Lake (Jessica Lucas, season 8); a CSI Level I.

Sean Yeager (Matthew Davis, season 14); a CSI Level III.

Dawn Banks (Sherry Stringfield, season 14); a CSI Level III.

Lab Technicians

Mandy Webster (Sheeri Rappaport, seasons 1–2; 6–12); a fingerprint technician.

Mia Dickerson (Aisha Tyler, season 5); a DNA technician.

Archie Johnson (Archie Kao), seasons 2–12); an A/V technician.

Ronnie Litre (Eric Stonestreet, seasons 1–5); a Q.D. technician.

Charlotte Meridian (Susan Gibney, seasons 1–2); a Fingerprint technician.

Bobby Dawson (Gerald McCullouch, seasons 1–10); a ballistics expert.

Judie Tremont (Victoria Prescott, seasons 3–8); a receptionist.

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Jenna Williams (Judith Scott, season 1); a Medical Examiner.

Consultant Specialists

Teri Miller (Pamela Gidley, seasons 1–3); a forensic anthropologist.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.

There have been many audio recordings of the novella, with some of the more famous readers including Tom Baker, Roger Rees, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quayle, Martin Jarvis, Tim Pigott-Smith, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Gene Lockhart.

Inspiration and writing

Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how personalities can affect a human and how to incorporate the interplay of good and evil into a story. While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about Deacon Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. E. Henley and was produced for the first time in 1882. In early 1884 he wrote the short story "Markheim", which he revised in 1884 for publication in a Christmas annual. One night in late September or early October 1885, possibly while he was still revising "Markheim," Stevenson had a dream, and upon wakening had the intuition for two or three scenes that would appear in the story. Biographer Graham Balfour quoted Stevenson's wife Fanny Stevenson: