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Dr. Jekyll was an innocent man who could not free himself from his obsession with his evil counterpart, Mr. Hyde. In the world today, there are millions of people like this fictional character who are consumed and controlled by a certain action, feeling, or substance. These habitual compulsions range from anything to surfing the web to potent narcotics. In Stevenson’s classic novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” he takes us on a journey through the stages of addiction, revealing the mental processes, causes, and effects of the extraordinarily common, yet potentially dangerous syndrome of addiction.

Addiction is usually considered a horrible word, reserved only for those who are constantly enslaved in the power of mind-altering drugs. However, it has been a part of all of our lives at one time or another and is commonly overlooked by most people. Watching television, the toy we always wanted and could not get enough of, and the infatuation of our first love are just a few examples. Anything that alters our behavior or mental processes and causes compulsive thinking or action can be considered an addiction. Curiosity, boredom, lonelin

He [Dr. Jekyll] came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been known for his charities, he was now no less distinguished for his religion. He was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good… for more than two months the doctor was at peace. (Stevenson 22)

I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, triple the amount… All things therefore seemed to point to this: that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse. (Stevenson 48)

The last stage is exactly as named, disastrous. The will and personality of the normal person are absorbed into the controlling mentality of a full-blown addict. Every thought or emotion triggers and obsessive reaction. This stage is most commonly attributed to drug abuse, but there have been many cases where one has been addicted to the television or the internet, so much so that their compulsive activities run for days on end. Everything goes wrong in this stage. Violence, paranoia, seizures, homelessness, family loss, and death are only some of the negative effects that haunt the abuser. Dr. Jekyll went through this as he confined himself to his laboratory because of his internal conflict and Hyde’s violent murder of a doctor. Dr. Jekyll had an extreme self hatred as he described that “no one had ever suffered such torments, let that suffice; and yet even to these habit brought… a certain acquiescence of despair… the last calamity which has now befallen… has finally severed me from my own face and nature” (Stevenson 54). The potion no longer had any effect on him, and controlled by his addictive self, he was forced to live in complete isolation from society. Like Jekyll, the fourth stage addict no longer gets a euphoric feeling from the action, but needs it just to feel normal. “There are only two ways out of this stage of the addiction - intervention or suicide,” according to Th

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