When do you think the climax in Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde is?

Question

I'm not sure if it's when we find out that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the same person or at another point in the book.

Answer 1

It's definitely what you say: when we discover that they are the same character. There is no doubt in my mind that Robert Louis Stevenson intended it that way. When we read the story today, everyone knows that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person, but the original readers would have had no idea, and had probably never come across anything similar before. If today's readers feel that the climax is at a different point in the book, it's because they already know the story's brilliant and world-famous climactic twist.