Stevenson presents Jekyll a weak man, who is under the control of his evil counterpart. Jekyll cant choose between himself or Hyde, this is Stevenson’s allusion that the inner evil of a person is hard to keep at bay, with Hyde personifying the evil of humanity, and Jekyll is personifying the weakness of mankind, that sub misses to evil to easily and finds the easier way out. Also, Jekyll lets himself feel for Hyde by saying he, ‘ has the indifference of a son’. This shows us that Jekyll cares too much for Hyde, but Hyde doesn’t have the emotional capacity to care so, it is why he is more dominant.

In this chapter Stevenson also shows just how out of control Jekyll has gotten over Hyde. The chapter is when Jekyll explains the events of one night where he went to bed as Henry Jekyll and awoke as Edward Hyde. This shows just how much Jekyll has allowed evil to consume him and takes control of him, and how he cannot fight back because his evil side has finally become stronger. “ But in the hands of Edward Hyde they soon began to turn monstrous”. This supports how Jekyll can’t control Hyde’s actions, and how all his actions have turned monstrous and bestial, without Jekyll being able to stop it.

Jekyll is also portrayed as arrogant in the statement of the case. “ A man who could afford to laugh at suspicion”, This quote shows Jekyll’s arrogance and how he thinks that because he commits the crimes he does as Hyde, that people would never expect Hyde to have connection with a respectable doctor, so in a way Jekyll is the perfect cover for Hyde, because Jekyll knows he would never be accused of such indiscretions.

Lastly, he is shown as cowardly and vulnerable. “Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes.. I was the first to ever do so for his pleasure”. This shows his cowardice because it is not actually Jekyll himself who is committing his crimes, it is him hiding behind Hydes image, so he himself is not committing the crimes, Hyde is Jekyll’s bravo, because Jekyll is too protective of what other think of him and his public image, to ever really commit the crimes himself, because he knows as Hyde, they will never be linked back to him.