Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that it´s possible to separate the man´s soul into two. He succeeded in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he decides to stop taking the drug it was already too late since Mr Hyde had already done terrible things.
Henry Jekyll was a well respected member of London society. He was a medical doctorand scientist. He theorized that in each man there was a good side and an evil side which could be separated into two. In doing so, the evil side could be controlled and the good side could live without worry. In his experiments, he used himself as the subject to test his hypothesis. His evil side, Mr. Hyde, escaped into London, and terrorized many people and even killed a man. Jekyll, aware of Hyde's actions, decided to stop his experiments because of the suffering he had caused.