Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde.

mr. utterson had already quailed at the name of hyde; but when the sick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to henry jekyll.

mr. utterson's worried thoughts about the connection between hyde and jekyll is an example of what kind of conflict?

a. external
b. internal
c. group
d. social

In "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Utterson's worried thoughts about the connection between Hyde and Jekyll is an example of internal conflict. Utterson is the typical Victorian gentleman, who seeks to maintain order and decorum. When he sees the stick he has given Dr. Jekyll he has to believe that Jekyll is guilty. Internal conflict is a struggle that takes place in the character's own mind, is a struggle between opposing forces within himself.

In "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Utterson's worried thoughts about the connection between Hyde and Jekyll is an example of internal conflict. Utterson is the typical Victorian gentleman, who seeks to maintain order and decorum. When he sees the stick he has given Dr. Jekyll he has to believe that Jekyll is guilty. Internal conflict is a struggle that takes place in the character's own mind, is a struggle between opposing forces within himself.