Hence it came about that i concealed my pleasures; and that when i reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, i stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me. many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as i was guilty of; but from the high views that i had set before me, i regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame. it was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what i was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature. –the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson what conclusion can be drawn about dr. jekyll? dr. jekyll is competitive with people he finds threatening. dr. jekyll is an open and honest person who accepts himself. dr. jekyll is determined to appear a perfect gentleman. dr. jekyll is jealous of others’ successes and wants to become like them.