. In his final letter to Utterson, Dr. Jekyll declares that “man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens” (E.799). The Strange Case of Dr....

. In his final letter to Utterson, Dr. Jekyll declares that “man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens” (E.799). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde narrates an extreme instance of this kind of plural and divided selfhood, examining not only its physical and psychological but also its moral and legal consequences. Discuss how the novella’s conception of the divided-self challenges some of the basic moral and legal principles upon which the society represented in the novella is built.