Art and Aesthetically Dark

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Frank is requested by his friend Haplin Chalmers for a demonstration. What kind of demonstration, you may ask? One that would end up bringing Chalmers' doom, despite Frank's warnings and pleas. What could have happened to Chalmers? And why? Let us find out in the story of The Hounds of Tindalos

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Hello, and welcome to the full length edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This story tells of the precocious lawyer, Gabriel H. Utterson, who is trying to solve the mysterious bond between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the foul-spirited villain, Mr. Edward Hyde. What will Utterson discover as he tries to save his friend from an ending of misery, of torment, and of utter, unrelenting doom?

(Author's note: I couldn't get the episodes in the right order, so I assume it'll just be easier for listeners to hear the story all at once instead.

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Sometimes we want to be more than what we are. Sometimes, we want what someone else has that they do not value, or are even aware of. How far would you go to get what is not yours, just to establish what could be yours?

Hildred Castigane had the option to find that out, and went the totally out of pocket way, See what happens when madness meets ambition...

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This is where we as the reader read the words of a man who has done wrong, but even as he is facing his end, refuses to state his sins. Such a shame, poor Henry...

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Poor poor Utterson, trying to save his friend, Henry Jekyll, from the villainous Mr. Edward Hyde. He trying a task that nobody can succeed at.

Henry Jekyll was a good man. And every good man wants to do something bad once in their lifetime, right? What about multiple times? What about doing horrible things that would last a lifetime? What about doing something to your own spirit and body that GOD cannot even forgive, for it was beyond his own will that such a blasphemy was sought?

Poor Jekyll, he wanted to prove a point, and all he did was prove eyveryone right. Especially Lanyon. Calling him a fool was the smartest thing his friend ever did...

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Although not all the answers were given during the main climax of the story, Hastie Lanyon has more answers than what one would think. Perhaps it is better to leave what you wish to know alone, before entering the grave.

It saves you the time from getting that which burdens you to lay beside you in the grave. lord knows, there will be grave robbers to take that as well!

Gabriel H. Utterson is a lawyer, and a good friend. perhaps a friend that everyone needs. In this case, the friend that Utterson needs has a new favorite. Dr. Henry Jekyll has aquainted himself with a man by the name of Edward Hyde, a depraved soul who causes anyone who encounters him to shudder.

Over time, Utterson must attempt to come to understand what is happening to Dr. Jekyll and why the dastardly Mr. Hyde is so important to his old friend...

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Poor, poor Gabriel Utterson, sitting there feeling useless as his friend goes the Devil's way...

This is the 2/4 of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This portion carries the very climax, the most eventful of the story, but also, it gives no answers. And answers are something human beings like to have after the hassle of dealing with nonsense and taxes.

In this case, this part of the story tells the ending to a story, that deals more with lore of what happened. We learn about an ending, the only reliable and likely ending. the probability of what happens is the gross majority; losing the one you care about to a lifestyle you cannot save them from, for they do not want to be saved.

The story of Jekyll and Hyde touches me on a level, as I have had people I am close to have their lives destroyed by such situations. The questionings, the judging out of need to protect them from themselves, the anger and shame that comes from them when you bring up the problem they cannot see...

Many lives I've seen go through it, and in a way, this story is, to me, an anthology to that very problem that every person should know to acknowledge. I don't care if you think it can't happen to you. I care about if it happens to you at all.

Gabriel Utterson is the archetype of the individual who believes if they intervene that they can save the person they love. His unfortunate ignorance did not teach him, that the people who came to him in the end, had no one else to turn to, yet a stranger accepted them as still human. Most who are at their worst feel less than human, so when humanity is given to them, it can breathe life back inside their hollow vessel--ONLY if they wish to change, as conformity is human nature.

Giving someone humanity while they act inhuman grants them a God complex....

Gabriel Utterson was a good man, and he believed in the good of the people. Will he still believe when the worst of the worst comes to exist, from a person he would never expect?