Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde question

Hyde is Jekyll without inhibitions and without fear. He acts on all the immoral and violent impulses ordinary people have to ignore. Everyone occasionally feels the urge to do violence, even if it's only the need to slap someone upside the head. We resist because we fear repercussions - being charged with assault, alienating our peers, being ostracised from our group, possible retribution.
Hyde as a villain is terrifying because he does not fear the repercussions; that is to say, there is nothing we, as ordinary people, can do to deter his violence. He just keeps coming.
Hyde as a symbol is terrifying because we know that he exists in each of us.

It's been a long time since I read this...but I always considered him as a person (?) who liked being angry- it had a sense of power- and he liked to make others suffer or just plain punish them for being them. He was the impulse of anger. Almost like when in Peter Pan the author described Tinkerbell as being so small she could only feel one feeling at a time- Hyde kinda reminded me of that.

i think that Mr. Hyde is the part of Jeckyll no one sees. While the good doctor is kind and noble, hyde is much the opposite, taking over and becoming more...violent and fiendish whith every deed almost as if evil feeds him??

Maari is correct, also TV hadn't been invented yet.

I also agree with Maari. We all have a "Mr Hyde" side to our characters that needs to controlled but also acknowledged rather than completely suppressed. I think Stevenson was making the point that Victorian society was too restrictive.

Jekyll is an alcoholic. He takes a "drink" and he turns into a monster. He turns violent, selfish, disgusting, dangerous, etc. Yet Jekyll is a nice guy when he isn't under the influence of his drugs.
Hyde isn't so much evil and terrible, but more like an animal. He wants to satisfy his primal urges first, and screw everybody else who gets in his way. He's more like a grown child, with no concern for anyone except for himself.