Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Interpretation by Tommy M.

In the Gothic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde we see that Dr. Jekyll faces life at all costs. Dr. Jekyll wants to find a way where he can make he alter personality a different person. So he forgets the world around him and drinks a potion that brings out his alter personality and thinks he can control it, but he can't. "He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp." (Stevenson 65)

John Crowley was a man that wanted to find a cure for pompe disease and didn't care what it took to do it. He gave up his job to work with a man to find the cure and gave a ton of money to do so.