Victor becomes fascinated by the mystery of the creation of life and begins to study how the human body is built and how it falls apart. After several years of tireless work, he masters all that his professors yet had to teach him. This is not enough for him so he goes one step further: discovering the secret of life. Frankenstein never meant to create a hideous monster from his experiment, which explains the reason he is so horrified and shocked at the sight of the Creature. The creation of the monster is a grotesque act, far removed from the triumph of scientific knowledge which Victor has hoped for; .
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while Jekyll creates Hyde with intention for devil from the very beginning. This shows the interest of both scientists in good and bad personalities of human kind.
Second, neither Hyde nor the Monster looks completely human. There is something about the two that makes people fear and reject them. While the Monster's ugliness consists only in his physical appearance, Hyde's attaches more to his soul than to his body. Hyde is hideous, wicked and therefore represents evil. He is a strange, offensive man who looks faintly pre-human. There is something that makes him look and seem very ugly and unpleasant, but no one seems to know what that is. The first time Stevenson describes Hyde is through Mr. Enfield who says that the man "appeared so overwhelmingly ugly that the crowd immediately despised him." He admits that he "never saw a man I so disliked, and I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I could not specify the point." Hyde's strange appearance is compared to a "troglodyte" and very often with Satan. Utterson says to himself, meaning to direct it to Dr. Jekyll that " if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is that of your new friend." Hyde is also described as being "wicked - looking" and is well known for his "haunting sense of unexpressed deformity.
