Similarities Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

The Universally Opposing Characters

So often people feel the necessity to question their bad deed and deficiencies opposed to their good qualities and traits. Good deeds are expected and undisputed, therefore audiences find them unappealing and uninteresting. The irresistible feeling of evilness that lies within each person is much more compelling for a reader to assimilate. A human is thought to be born from virtue with sin, and not from sin with virtue (Dalrymple 24). While Robert Louis Stevenson had little intention of questioning the human’s psychological causes for multiple personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he certainly opened it up for discussion for later social scientists to investigate (Stefan 213).

Both physically and psychologically, Stevenson created two diametrically different characters. One was to represent good, and the other to represent evil. The contradictory characters are what makes Stevenson’s novel intriguing (Shyalaja 71). Every

Jekyll even after he committed his deeds. Broadening the definition of insanity can be dangerous though. Stevenson holds the doctor accountable for murder (Ganz 1). Dr. Jekyll also is well aware of his wrongdoings. He confesses to looking into the mirror and seeing the atrocious Mr. Hyde. He states, “was conscious of repugnance. This too, was myself.” Jekyll confesses his fondness of the evil in which Hyde was suppressed. This allowed Hyde to finally become ascendant (“Dr. Jekyll” 762-763). Jekyll, in the current form of Hyde, is out of materials and is unable to transform himself back into his original form. He is wanted for murder and, even being in the form of Hyde, feels culpability. He results in killing himself, but the Jekyll leaves behind a very important confession that is written within a single note. This is that those two versions of people, both good and evil, were within the same person (Shyalaja