Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead; and the Regent?s Park was full of winter chirruping and sweet with spring odours. I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. After all, i reflected, i was like my neighbours; and then i smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active good-will with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering. These passed away, and left me faint; and then as in its turn faintness subsided, i began to be aware of a change in the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a contempt of danger, a solution of bonds of obligation. I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde. A moment before i had been safe of all men?s respect, wealthy, beloved?the clot laying for me in the dining-room at home; and now i was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.? ( chapter 10 ).
Q) how does this passage develop the key themes of the novel? Your answer should include a DETAILED discussion of the way in which the relationship between the human and the animal is figured in the passage and the novel as a whole.

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