Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Psychological reading

religion.
             From an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun
             .... I had learned to dwell with pleasure.... on the thought of separate identities".
             In the chapter titled, "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case" Dr.
             Jekyll's addiction is brought to light. First as Jekyll's reacts to the initial dose his
             response resembles a first time users of heroin or opium. As he ingest his first
             dose, he describes the feelings as the drug enters his body , "there was something
             strange,... something indescribably new, ... incredibly sweet. I felt younger,
             lighter, happier in body". This new feeling, "delighted me like wine". Jekyll
             boasts, as he describes a skewed sense of reality often associated with cocaine
             use, "I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none
             could come near to me... Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes....
             I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could thus
             plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability and in a moment....
             spring headlong into the sea of liberty!&quo
             ...

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