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

confused.
delightful.
ominous.
righteous