In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll attempts to split himself into two people, Edward Hyde and Henry Jekyll. He achieves this difference by creating a concoction out of a crystalline salt and a “blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether” (Stevenson 104). But as expected, his plan didn’t work out. Jekyll stated, “Man is not truly one, but truly two, I say two because the state of my own knowledge does pass beyond that point” (111). In his scientific studies, Jekyll has come to the conclusion that a man cannot be entirely good or evil, but must be both. However, his plan does not work out quite the way he intended, as his body does not react well and starts