... and lowering on a street in which it stands out among thriving, well-kept, and prosperous commercial structures. With its decaying facade and air of neglect, the laboratory quite neatly symbolizes the corrupt and perverse Hyde. Correspondingly, the respectable, prosperous-looking main house symbolizes the respectable, upright Jekyll. ... 88) Thus, finally, Jekyll does end his own life, knowing that to destroy hyde, he must also destroy himself, just as Dorian, in The picture of Dorian Gray, had to destroy the picture to be at peace. " ( the knife) it would kill the past, and when that w...

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