Question

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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. 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.

This excerpt helps resolve the plot by revealing Dr. Jekyll’s conflicts

with people that made him dislike society.
within himself that lead him to create Hyde.
with nature that caused him to withdraw inside himself.
within the scientific community over the creation of Hyde.

Answer 1

within himself that lead him to create Hyde.

The passage emphasizes Jekyll’s “exacting nature of my aspirations,” the “severed” provinces of “good and ill,” and his deep reflection on a moral-law rooted in religion — all pointing to an internal, psychological conflict that causes him to split himself and produce Hyde.