Abstract
Thomas Reed (2006) suggests that the real focus of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde is alcoholism. The ‘transforming draught’ is alcohol. Alcoholism takes one beyond the simple idea of abusing alcohol into a relationship of psychological and physical dependency and, with that, a change in character. With that comes the sense of the person’s will being overtaken by alcohol. Slowly but surely, the agency of the person is compromised. As the agency is compromised, so the negative effects of alcoholism begin to show.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
(Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer)
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© 2009 Simon J. Robinson and Alexandra J. Kenyon
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Robinson, S.J., Kenyon, A.J. (2009). Addiction and Ethics. In: Ethics in the Alcohol Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250581_8
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