Dr. Jekyll

 In “The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde", the character I feel the most close too is Dr. Jekyll. This character is very mysterious and seems like he is hiding many things. Throughout the whole novel so far,he seems to be hiding many important details that people are wondering. Throughout each chapter, he would go from being a nice man and be very friendly but at other times it would be the opposite. Dr. Jekyll has quite a personality because his mood changes all the time. I feel that Stevenson is trying to say that when things change in society then mood can change. 

"Story of the Door" Reaction

        In the story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde many moments caught my attention but this one in particular really made me think. The moment in the chapter “Story of the Door” is when Mr. Enfield tells the story about the door to Mr. Utterson. This isn’t a kind of story that you would hear everyday, it was strange in a way and you could not help but read it again because it was that strange. The story that he told was about a little girl who was outside in the middle of the night and a guy ran into her and knocked her down. A way that I can connect to this, in a way, is that during school, I would see people getting pushed around and then the person who did it would just walk away and act like nothing ever happened. 
          I feel bad for both the victim and the attacker in some sort of a way because I feel its horrible that the person who raised the man didn’t show him how to be polite and considerate of others. I also am shocked about the girl because she is only 8 years old and she shouldn’t be out in the middle of the street anyway. Lastly, what I would like to say is that when the parents were talking about what happened, they didn’t even mention that she was by herself at 3 a.m. All they cared about was manors and how people never really put them to good use. 

Mental Illness in the 19th Century

                   The article that I read was “Mental Illness in the 19^th Century” by Carrie Hughes.  This article explained how doctors in the 18^th century did not really care about all of the patients’ illnesses or about them. For starters, this illness started off with being told you were being sent to jail, an alms house or staying home without a treatment. In 1841, a woman named Dorothea Dix was outraged with all the terrible conditions people were in and could not help but try to find a cure for it. Doctors never really cared for these people and could not help but turn them away. Overcrowded hospitals led them to no cure.

            My central point that I am trying to aim for is that many people in the 18^th century were turning away from people that really needed the help. Doctors today care more for patients then any doctor did in the 18^th century. Finally, back then, society showed how much people did not really care about everybody but now nobody leaves one behind.

            My reaction to this article is that I am against what people thought back then and that doctors should have treated all patients equally. I truly feel bad for the patients that had to go through this horrible illness and had incurable treatments. This made me want to come up with a cure for these patients, even though I know I cannot do that.