Mr Hyde Duality

Monster is a term used today in many books and movies. They entertain us, give us a break from our life, and provoke thought, which is why they continue to draw us in. The book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886. Dr. Jekyll is a good-natured, clever, and well-respected scientist who plays around with science's shadowy side to unleash his "second nature." He accomplishes this by assuming the identity of Mr. Hyde, his evil alter ego who refuses to confess or take ownership of his sinful deeds and behavior. This is characterized by the term duality, which is the quality of having two different parts, this is shown in the text because everyone has a good and evil to them. The secondary sources that

Richard Tithecott wrote this text to describe how people cannot really be monsters, but they will have the characteristics that will classify them as a monster. He wrote “Our desire for normality, our fetishization of Average Joe, inevitably means that abnormality is constructed as something that needs to be repressed, something that inevitably because desirable, mysterious, sexy” (Tithecott, pg 301). Everyone has an underlying desire for something unusual because it is out of the ordinary, true crime and serial killer stories attract us. People become so interested in serial killers because it scares us, but it also thrills us and makes us want to learn about them. Serial killers can look like anyone and can just hide in plain sight which is why they are being classified as an average joe. Jeffery Dahmer is the serial killer that is talked about in this text because he looked like an ordinary person, but he was doing these horrific deeds behind closed doors. The Average Joe is someone’s desire for normality but then they have this side of them who is evil and is described as the mechanical monster. This source can be used to explain the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it shows the disorder of split personality. Dr Jekyll is the normal, average joe person while Mr. Hyde is the evil, mechanical