Hence it came about that i concealed my pleasures; and that when i reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, i stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me. many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as i was guilty of; but from the high views that i had set before me, i regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame. it was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what i was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature. –the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson what conclusion can be drawn about dr. jekyll? dr. jekyll is competitive with people he finds threatening. dr. jekyll is an open and honest person who accepts himself. dr. jekyll is determined to appear a perfect gentleman. dr. jekyll is jealous of others’ successes and wants to become like them.

Nazim hikmet wrote: "living is no laughing matter: you must live with a great seriousness like a squirrel for example—i mean without looking for something beyond and above living, i mean living must be your whole occupation." explain, in at least one hundred words, how this quote relates to hikmet's unique experiences and point of view.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Insert comma today we went to the store to the post office and to the park