... careless; this is my true hour of death Here then I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end ( Stevenson: 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 was ... dead he would be free. I would kill the monstrous soul-life, and, without its hideous warnings, he would be at peace. He seized the thing, and stabbed the picture with it- (Wilde: 255) Doubtless, the novel shows tha...

• Word Count: 2274
• Approx Pages: 9