Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde.

but time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; i began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, i once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.

the excerpt confirms the prediction that

jekyll will become violent without becoming hyde.
hyde will gain some of jekyll’s intelligence.
hyde will not be able to overcome jekyll’s vulnerabilities.
jekyll will not be able to permanently resist becoming hyde.

Jekyll will not be able to permanently resist becoming Hyde.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, we can see the description of the struggle of Dr. Jekyll to resist becoming Mr. Hyde, he employs all of his will to stay as Dr. Jekyll but eventually, he doesn't resist the pressure of Hyde trying to appear, and he drinks the draught to transform into Mr. Hyde, this shows us that Jekyll will not be able to permanently resist becoming Hyde.

i believe it is he has been given the drum as a joke.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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