Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, there are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
Source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde
The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde inspired me, because when I heard about it, it gave me a chill down my spine and this is the reaction I want to get from my viewers. It fits in a thriller in the way it has a protagonist and an antagonist, the contrast of a split personality makes this a psychological thriller which is what I gained to be the favourite sub-genre in my questionnaire, moreover it is very interessting to the viewers as generally the protagonist and antagonist are seperate people, whereas in an alter ego it is in one.
This is a scene from the film made in 1931:
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