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What Is The Relationship Between Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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The novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson elaborates on the ideas of the duality of human nature and the nature of good and evil. The story revolves around Dr. Jekyll and a strange character named Mr. Hyde. The narrator Mr. Utterson is Dr. Jekyll’s lawyer and he is trying to solve this mystery and figure out the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the end of the novel, Mr. Utterson discovers that Dr. Jekyll was in fact Mr. Hyde all along. Dr. Jekyll created a potion that was intended to rid him of all evil, but instead it morphed him into a new completely evil person, which Dr. Jekyll called Mr. Hyde. Stevenson develops this idea of good and evil in many different ways. Two prominent ideas

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