Quotation: I decided to go further in-depth with the quote from the bottom of page 79 to the beginning of 80. “For two good reasons, I will not enter deeply into this scientific branch of my confession. First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure. Second, because, as my narrative will make alas! Too evident, my discoveries were incomplete.”
Comment/Connection: This passage fits into the novel because it is the realization that man is the burden placed on this Earth and that not everyone understands scientific explanations so he knows to dumb it down a bit for those that are not scientists. As this novel is told by a lawyer and he probably doesn’t know all the scientific meanings Dr. Jekyll may have used to explain. This passage connects to the scientific method because it closes with the things learned and those yet to be learned from this experiment.
I feel like this goes to show or back up that when you try to get rid of an evil being they tend to come back even more awful because they now have the experience of that action. They become wiser now that they know one of their foe’s tactics. In terms of there being an argument, it may be that “the doom and burthen of our life are bound forever on man’s shoulders.” To which I completely agree I think that there is not one being that purposely puts bad things on us. I think we do it to ourselves because we are afraid of the unknown or the worst possible thing that could occur. In some circumstances, I feel like we second guess ourselves to the point where we come out on the wrong end because we didn’t stick to what we know.
Question: Do you think others consider the evident tyranny humans put on things during this time period? Or is it because he has created something so awful that he knows now the detrimental things men can do?
