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Dr Jekyll And Hyde Free Will Essay

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Having free will is something everyone has, but many do not realize the full potential of it.. In Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” young and innocent Dorian gets caught up with a devil-like man named Henry, and ultimately becomes full of nothing but evil after wishing to stay young forever. In Robert Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, Dr. Jekyll attempts to separate all the evil from himself and becomes corrupt in the process. In Robert Louis Stevenson's “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and Oscar Wilde's “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, both authors argue that people can try to separate good and evil, but both are necessary for life. Stevensons conveys through recklessness that once there is no more good or evil, you become foolish because of your free will. …show more content…

Hyde with Dr. Jekyll, it's clear that Jekyll is very confident that Mr. Hyde is not someone to be worried about. Jekyll says, “The moment I chose I could be rid of Mr. Hyde.” (16). Jekyll is not just sure that Hyde isn't a threat, but he’s positive that Hyde can disappear at any moment and Jekyll can't continue as normal. However, because Jekyll is purely good, there is no evil to keep him grounded, so he has become incautious of Hyde. When he transforms into Hyde, he has the same problem. After Hyde tramples a child, he becomes reckless as he realizes he has no more morals. As a result, he commits murder when he “broke out of all bounds” (17). Hyde becomes extremely angry for no reason, and without checking for witnesses or thinking about his actions, he just murders someone. As Hyde, he is not confined by any morals or good, just like as Jekyll, he is not confined by any evil or wrongdoings. Not being held down by one of these things at any time lets them realize the full extent of their free will. In Martin Tropp’s

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Jekyll demonstrates the better qualities of people, and the desire to live a respectable life. He represents goodness through many actions, including his final, unforgivable, sin that destroys himself and Hyde for the betterment of everyone (I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end”). Hyde’s represents the sinister, evil, parallel opposite of Jekyll, as he wishes only to do evil(“Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds, and clubbed him to the earth”)(Stephenson 43). Hyde’s trampling of the girl, and killing Sir Danvers Carew for no apparent reason other than spite furthers the claims that has no apparent control over his morbid acts.

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The evil one began to take over, and that evil part of himself was capable of being a criminal. Dr. Jekyll should be held responsible for Mr. Hyde’s crimes because he knew there was a risk involved, Mr. Hyde is not actually a second person, and modern law would find Dr. Jekyll guilty. Dr. Jekyll is an intelligent scientist. He is fully aware that his plan to separate out the two sides of himself is risky. He didn’t like the way the moral side

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Throughout the novella Jekyll would struggle to keep Mr. Hyde from “escaping” and taking over. This being said all of these things balance each other out to keep good and evil balanced. The first way that good and evil exists in all humans is like yin and yang. By balancing each other out it keeps both sides to work equally. The novella starts off when Mr. Hyde tramples a little girl—at night— and acts like it was no big deal, but when Dr. Jekyll wakes up he does not remember anything. “… and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child.

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