Jekylll's Two Personalities Of Good And Evil

To fulfill his desires, he creates a potion that can strengthen his darker side, an alternate ego in which he can use to act on without obeying the rules of society. Like Eve, Jekyll did what he wanted to do even though they clearly knew that it would cause severe effects. The influence of the serpent to Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was tempting, “[Eve] saw that the tree was… a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, [so] she took from its fruit and ate [it]” (Bible Genesis 3:6). The potion, like the forbidden fruit, is a tempting substance that could influence the strongest of minds to do what they might not believe is right. Jekyll, the creator of the potion, befell the influence of it like how Eve was influenced to do an act against the wishes of God.

Dr. Jekyll believed that people have two personally, an evil, and a sane side. Dr. Jekyll creates a medicine to control his bad side which is Mr. Hyde. I think that Dr. Jekyll wanted to erase the evil side of people so that there will be no more crime or madness in the world. He expreimented on myself and he lost

Dr. Jekyll wants to live two lives, so he creates a potion to create Hyde, a purely evil, dwarfish, ugly, devilish form of himself that allows him to run around and create chaos without getting caught and ruining his real reputation. Dr. Jekyll has been using Hyde to do things he never could in his own skin, but when Jekyll starts taking advantage of his his new self, Hyde starts to take over. “this incoherency of [Jekyll's] life was daily growing more unwelcome. It was on this side that [his] new power tempted [him] until [he]

Considering The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an Effective Representation of Evil

In the story of “ The Strange Case Dr.Jekyll And Mr.Hyde there is only one person in the body but with two different personalities Mr.Hyde is the bad side of Dr.Jekyll because it's all in his mind , there is no Hyde. Dr.Jekyll transformed his body into something unrecognizable and Jekyll did not create a potion to help remove the evil in himself of his nature.The quote in the story said" In each of us , two natures are at war, the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose what we want most to be, we are". The potion that Dr.Jekyll made was to express his urges without feeling guilty. Dr.Jekyll did not need a potion to make an impression on a girl named Ivy because he likes her, and he was willing to do anything just so he could go

Jekyll talks about the years before the creation of the potion that transforms him into Hyde. He summarises his finding of the dual nature, human beings are half good and half evil. Jekyll’s goal in his experiments is to separate two opposite elements, creating a person with only good characteristics and a being of only evil. He does this because he wants to free his good side from dark urges. He fails this experiment, in fact he only manages to create a whole evil person ‘Mr Hyde’. In the letter, Jekyll says ‘I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man . . . if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.’ The events of the novel inform the reader that the dark side (Hyde) is much stronger than the rest of Jekyll, this is why Hyde is able to take over Jekyll. This letter is really important for the reader so that the whole novel is understood. A lot of horror is created and it is all quiet in the reader's mind. The reader feels horrified by the way in which Jekyll seems to love and care for Hyde. Jekyll’s words make the reader angry that a man who was so good could enjoy becoming so

     In the end, Jekyll decides to let Hyde take over and he gives up. Hyde is able to take control over Jekyll because Jekyll had originally taken the potion for selfish reasons. Jekyll knows that there is a good chance Hyde will take over but he continues with his experiment knowing the risks. He says, “To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become at a blow and forever,

Dictionary.com states that duplicity is “deceitefulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing”. From a young age Jekyll felt the feeling of deceitfulness and evil. Later in the book he creates a potion that changes him from his friendly self of Dr. Jekyll to his evil self of Mr. Hyde. But the real question is, was Mr. Hyde the evil one or was Jekyll evil to begin with and it came out through Hyde? Some readers will never know and be always questioning, but the real answer is right in front of them. The answer is evil is within man at birth. In this case Jekyll’s potion is like the abusive parent or harsh videogame of today. The potion pulled out the evil stored away in Jekyll’s mind and

But in private, Jekyll confesses that when he “looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, [he] was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This too, was [himself]. It seemed natural and human” (Stevenson 78). Instead of feeling disgust at the appearance of Hyde, like every other character in the story, Jekyll feels comforted. The fact that Jekyll is able to view pure evil without revulsion is symbolic of his innate corruption and foreshadows Hyde inevitably overwhelming Jekyll. Throughout the story, Jekyll is utterly incapable of resisting the temptations of Hyde. Even after vowing to never transform into Hyde again, Jekyll drinks the potion after two months: “I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught” (Stevenson 86). By allowing himself to fall prey to temptation and feel comfortable with Hyde, Jekyll refuses to acknowledge the immorality of Hyde. This is illustrated by the fact that “While the other characters find ways to accept and cope with their shadow sides, Dr. Jekyll cannot, and his failure to integrate the seemingly opposite aspects of himself… [results] in his

Over the course of the story, Dr. Jekyll must deal with frequent internal conflict. He struggles mercilessly with his own evil impulses. Jekyll tries to ignore these impulses, but ultimately gives into them. The doctor explains, “It was on this side that my new power tempted me, until I fell into slavery. I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde” (Stevenson 59). Because he attempts to repress his impulses for so long, Jekyll simply cannot resist the urge to pursue them as

In pursuing his scientific experiments and validating his work, Jekyll claims, "man is not truly one, but truly two." So, in Jekyll's view, every soul contains elements of both good and evil, but one is always dominant. In Jekyll's case, his good side is dominant, but he knows there is evil inside of him, but at the end of the book his evil side becomes stronger and unstoppable. However, as a respectable member of society and an honorable Victorian gentleman, Jekyll cannot fulfill his evil desires. Thus, he works to develop a way to separate the two parts of his soul and free his evil characteristics. Unfortunately, rather than separating these forces of good and evil, Jekyll's potion only allows his purely evil side to gain strength. Jekyll is in fact a combination of good and evil, but Hyde is only pure evil, so there is never a way to strengthen or separate Jekyll's pure goodness. Without counterbalancing his evil identity, Jekyll allows Hyde to grow increasingly strong, and eventually take over entirely, perhaps entirely destroying all the pure goodness Jekyll ever had.

Stevenson's views on human nature are similar to that of The Bible, which consistently cites the life-long struggle Christians face between the flesh “evil” and the spirit “good”. Man can never be good because they are tainted by sin. Even Jesus says that only God is good in Mark 10:18 which reads, “‘Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good--except God alone.' Jekyll is the archetypal example of this. Jekyll knows what his desires are but once he falls from grace by creating Hyde he is forced to grapple with his evil side until it kill him. Doctor Jekyll knew his inevitable demise was rapidly approaching because he pleads with Utterson asking him to “help [Hyde] for my sake, when I am no longer here” (39). Jekyll's actions were evil when he created his potion

Dr. Jekyll was an intelligent man. His backstory declared a good family and a good upbringing. A man of exquisite dinner parties and his lavish estate. He was a brilliant man that was fascinated with the fact that every man has two sides. Yet even with all his positive attention he still held an insecurity for some of his childhood happenings. Even so he proceeded to make a potion that could bring out the evil side in a man. When he tested this out of himself he became a pure evil being. The actual Dr.Jekyll, and not his evil, counterpart, is a good person indeed. Throughout the novel it tells of the people's respect for him and his work.

There are many themes that could fit with "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", but the theme "Good vs. Evil" is the best fit for the story. Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde are one and the same person with completely different personalities.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll desires to relive his past events that are considered unfit of society, creating Mr. Hyde to do so without getting caught and losing his high reputation. Dr. Jekyll allows his evil side develop as “his temptation of a discovery so singular and profound, at last overcame the suggestions of alarm” (44). Dr. Jekyll lets his curiosity take over his moral judgments by creating a potion that allows him to switch bodies from himself to Mr. Hyde. The emphasis on his temptations being his only and most important ambition gives him reason to create another persona to satisfy his desires. Consequently though, Jekyll acknowledges that “a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill-race in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul” will be the cost of breaking the rules of society (44). His decision alludes to chaos through the imagery of disorder when being free from responsibilities, but he sees the disorder as something positive and enjoyable. For him, it may be a way to get out of his