Which excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde uses direct characterization? In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.
I was so far in my reflections when, as I have said, a side light began to shine upon the subject from the laboratory table.
I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice.
I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil . . .