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Jekyll And Mr Hyde Morality

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“Do what is right not what’s easy,”(Roy Bennett) is a quite simple yet, common saying in life. Sometimes we choose to take the easy way instead of doing what's right, this stems from our morals. The message of morality is evident by what's considered good or evil within The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story shows one of the major characters, Dr. Jekyll who shows more of a good side but also another more devious and evil side of Mr. Hyde. As a scientist, Dr. Jekyll is able to switch between the two characters by making Mr. Hyde more of a hidden life. The main way morals are conveyed in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde are through the personas of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Jekyll has a much more evil side that would appear from time to time, he went by the alias Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde shows many evil actions within the story, some with little explanation as to why he did it. This connects to morality as the fact that every person can perceive morality is various ways. One of his most unpredictable moments being “Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway,”(Stevenson 4.1). This scene was one of true evil as Hyde decided to brutally murder Sir Danvers Carew with almost no reasoning behind it. Only true evil can spew from such a type of murder. Mr. Hyde had little sense about morality and as portrayed by Robert Louis Stevenson he seems to believe that even bad deeds such as murder could be considered right. As later seen in the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person, Dr. Jekyll states “effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit... nonetheless natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul,” (Stevenson 10.2). Within Dr. Jekyll’s letter he speaks of the fact that his experiments were only results of pure evil. He knew that every time he drank his potion to become Mr. Hyde that bad things would occur. Stevenson conveys that evil overcomes the

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