Brian D-Z

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde interpreted by Brian Downey-Zayas

The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one that portrays a man desperate to satisfy his hungering for knowledge. Dr. Jekyll was desperate to find out if he could in fact separate the good and the evil from people. He was en route to a whole new branch of biology, and he would've done anything to reach his goal of full controlled separation of two separate entities. Here, in Dr. Jekyll's letter to Mr. Utterson he states "Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me, and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.". Committed in the key word in that quote, because Dr. Jekyll's devotion to is goal was so great that in the end he ends up dead because of it.

There are main devoted people in the world, and then there are obsessed people. People like Dr. Jekyll who was so obsessed with his life goal that they would stop at nothing to achieve it. A common people who suffer this obsession with success, are athletes. Athletes are so obsessed with succeeding whether its hitting home runs like Mark Mcguire, getting sacks like Brian Kushing, or throwing K's like Roger Clemens. Each of those three great athletes wanted to achieve their life goals so badly that they sacrificed their own health, and their reputation to do it.