In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, why did Dr. Jekyll go to such great lengths to protect Mr. Hyde? And go beyond the more obvious response that Hyde is actually a part of Jekyll, so he must protect him in order to protect himself. Jekyll seems to be protective of and obsessed with Hyde even beyond all of that. Is Stevenson making any sort of commentary on society by depicting Dr. Jekyll as being so obsessed with Mr. Hyde?
Please write a critical response based on this question. Your paper should be 2-3 pages long (meaning at least 2 full pages), double-spaced, with 1” margins using Times New Roman 12 point font, and it should conform to the Critical Response Papers Rubric handed out in class and also available on Blackboard. You must also use at least 4 direct quotations from the novel to support the claims that you make in your paper, cited with parenthetical references in correct MLA format “like this” (Stevenson 17).