Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-27586321-20150318044818/@comment-2011995-20150318124948

No, Hyde is a case of being made of evil in must depictions, where he is played as the evil side of Jekyll, but the original story, Hyde and Jekyll are one in the same. Hyde was more or less a disguise of Jekyll's created by the potion to indulge his subconscious desires.

Hence the name Hyde; Jekyll is using him to hide his guilt. He doesn't loose control or black out as Hyde - he remembers everything he does as Hyde because he is in control. Hyde is just a name Jekyll gives his repressed depravity.

In the story, Jekyll confesses and explains that freedom is why he makes the potion, and it's why he continues to imbibe it. He even takes responsibility for Hyde's actions by offing himself.

In the musical he says Hyde makes him feel "twice as alive and tenfold more wicked, which intoxicates and delights me like wine." Jekyll kept the potion because he's addicted to the freedom Hyde gives him, and doesn't do anything about it until he realizes his actions go past the point of unforgivable.