Hyde does not die with Jekyll in the revised version, though. This allows for an allowance of interesting development of his character. He loses the power Jekyll’s reputation and funds afforded him, but he regains control over himself. This feat would never have been accomplished if Hyde had not escaped Jekyll’s influence and gotten a job in a factory. “It was work that brought me back to myself. No thought was required, none of the fancy words I had learned while hanging about with the upper crust… just a steady hand and muscles that could endure a full day of shoveling coal into a giant, blasting furnace.” (Eprile 1425) Manual labor gave him the funds and the time to think that Hyde needed to collect himself. Once he was a man of his own free will again and not a brutish puppet, he was able to take back the power Jekyll had stolen from him. …show more content…
“… His [the blacksmith’s] brow is wet with honest sweat, / He earns whate’er he can, / And looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.” (Longfellow 596) Blacksmithing is just as physically demanding and dangerous as shoveling coal, but it is honest work that allows laborers to be self-sufficient. This physical strength and independence allots the worker a fair amount of power. Perhaps not as much power as Jekyll had at the top of society, but surely enough to live a happy life and be considered a human being. At least this holds true if the manual labor is being paid a fair wage for their