Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. The mood of this excerpt can best be described as
The speaker describes a disturbing discovery about human nature and says it has led to a “dreadful shipwreck.” These ominous words create a sense of danger and impending disaster, so the mood is ominous. “Confused” is less fitting because the speaker presents the discovery clearly, even though it is frightening.
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