February 29th, 2024 / µ

Fact Box

A stalker is herein referred to as He. This is not an expression of non-acceptance that a stalker may have another gender. He is used solely to make the text as straightforward as possible.

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

In university, I learned that The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a literary depiction of Victorian repressed sexuality. Jekyll was the Victorian man as he should be, and Hyde was the dark, sexual side of human nature, which Victorian society wanted to suppress.

That may be so. I don’t read it like that, but to each his own.

What is evident, regardless of which literary theory you adhere to, is that the dual character of Jekyll/Hyde is an excellent depiction of the two-faced nature of a psychopathic stalker:

Jekyll, the good and decent person, and Hyde, his true nature, Jekyll brings forth with a potion,

“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish; he gave an impression of deformity without any namable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice, - all these were points against him; but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him. ‘There must be something else,’ said the perplexed gentleman. ‘There is something more if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr Fell? or is it mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I think; for, O my poor Henry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend!”

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Man’s Dual Nature

If you read Jekyll/Hyde as a fictional depiction of the dual nature of a psychopathic stalker, Jekyll is the facade the stalker shows the world, where Jekyll presents himself as:

An amiable person
A truly good yet still modest person
Charming
The one who wants to help others
The skilled person with expert knowledge
The subservient, sometimes almost self-effacing person who does not ask for much and is content with just a little attention and help.
The victim!

But the stalker’s true identity is Hyde, the nature his victims know, and Hyde is:

A notorious liar
A persecutor
A criminal
Demonic
Hateful
Sadistic
A monster!

Monsters & Monkeys

Dr Jekyll is the façade the stalker uses to lure people into his web of lies, to establish a possible gang-stalking group*, the façade he uses to convince, trick & deceive people into believing he is the victim of The Other (the actual victim of the stalker’s/Hyde’s crimes), and Jekyll/Hyde needs help and humbly wishes to save other people from becoming victims too.

* In gang-stalking terms, the leader is sometimes called The Rat, and the helpers are Flying Monkeys. From hereon, I will refer to whoever helps Jekyll/Hyde as Monkeys.

In Jekyll/Hyde’s head, he might be a victim because one thing experience with stalkers teaches us is that they are notorious liars, probably even mythomaniacs, who seem to believe their own lies, regardless of how insane these lies may be.

The Monkeys will see Jekyll/Hyde as a lovable and gentle being, perhaps gawky and shy, even clumsy, and believe his lie that it is the Other, the actual victim, the target, who victimizes Jekyll/Hyde cruelly, even if there is no sense to the story of the fictitious crime. The lie Jekyll/Hyde tells may even indicate that the Monkeys themselves are in danger of becoming victims. So, everyone Jekyll/Hyde lures into his fantasy will feel sorry for him, despise The Other, and help Jekyll/Hyde.

If the Other tries to reason, no one will believe one word of it. The Monkeys have their truth and will not listen to anything else from now on. Jekyll/Hyde is a lovely, helpful, and charming person. The Other is full of lies. The Other is insane. Jekyll/Hyde would never be anything but friendly. Jekyll/Hyde couldn’t hurt a fly!

Behind Jekyll/Hyde’s fake gentleness, there is an unspoken threat lingering in the background, should the Monkeys betray Jekyll/Hyde:

Look what I can do to you if you betray me. Look how easily I can destroy you!

Fiction & The Real World

In the novella, the façade cracks in the end; Hyde cannot be stoved away anymore, and Jekyll gives in. Hyde is the true nature; Hyde defeats Jekyll,

“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

But in the real world, the problem is that the psychopathic stalker, Hyde, can hide forever, not because he is not Hyde, but because the Monkeys don’t want to accept the truth and see Jekyll/Hyde for what he truly is. This would force them to ask and answer questions such as these:

Do I help to persecute the Other because I genuinely believe Jekyll/Hyde is the Other’s victim or because I indulge in the perverted and primitive power persecuting another human as a group gives me?
Do I spread libel because I believe this libel to be true (because I am too stupid to check my facts and too scared to face the Other and ask) or because I am primitive and sadistic, someone whose life is so worthless that lying about another person, a person I may not even know, improves my meaningless existence?
Do I rally around Jekyll/Hyde because I like him or because this horrible human being delivers what I long for, a leader that will support my need for malice and sadism?
Do I genuinely believe the Other poses a threat to me, or do I dream of killing another human being for fun?
Or all of the above?

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Hyde will not stop

As long as Jekyll/Hyde is protected by Monkeys, by their loyalty (whatever the reason), the façade does not crack because it doesn’t have to. The monster Hyde can safely continue his sinister double life behind his Jekyll facade… as Ted Bundy did for years across state lines and with murder after murder after murder on the conscience he most likely didn’t have.

When you cover up for Jekyll, you’re protecting Hyde, and Hyde is a monster.

Thanks for reading! I hope you found it valuable and worth your time! Until next time, remember to get your facts straight and that whatever good times you have will never come back as bad times,