Dr. Jekyll and Mr. hyde
James Barton !
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9-29-13
Ioanna
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Robert Louis Stevenson once stated, “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.” In other words, everyone has both good and evil in them at some point, and these two powers contradict each other in every situation you are presented with. You, and only you, have the capability to decide if you side with the good or the evil, and it will make you the individual that you will eventually become. This quote is proven true in many pieces of literature such as, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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In this novel, Dr. Jekyll is a respected doctor and a very successful man. Since he was a young boy, Jekyll found that he was not just the polite boy many may have seen him to be. He also possessed a dark, sometimes evil side to his personality that he could not control. As he grew older, Jekyll attempted to separate his good side from his dark side through several different experiments. After many tests, he finally produced a potion that would fully pull out his dark side, known as Mr. Hyde, who was an ugly, strange, violent, animal-like man. After several months of using such a potion,
Dr. Jekyll began to engage in his own acts of evil. After doing this, he spontaneously transformed into Mr. Hyde while sitting in the park one day, without the help of his potion. Dr. Jekyll knew that he was growing weaker and that Hyde was beginning to take over his body. As the ingredients to reverse the transformation diminished, Mr.
Hyde would eventually take over Dr. Jekyllʼs body for good. This novel states that, “man is not truly one, but two.” With both forms trapped in one personʼs body, it is up to them to decide which they chose to be. As Dr. Jekyll engages in
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SAT Prompt Question !
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9-29-13
Ioanna
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Robert Louis Stevenson once stated, “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.” In other words, everyone has both good and evil in them at some point, and these two powers contradict each other in every situation you are presented with. You, and only you, have the capability to decide if you side with the good or the evil, and it will make you the individual that you will eventually become. This quote is proven true in many pieces of literature such as, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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In this novel, Dr. Jekyll is a respected doctor and a very successful man. Since he was a young boy, Jekyll found that he was not just the polite boy many may have seen him to be. He also possessed a dark, sometimes evil side to his personality that he could not control. As he grew older, Jekyll attempted to separate his good side from his dark side through several different experiments. After many tests, he finally produced a potion that would fully pull out his dark side, known as Mr. Hyde, who was an ugly, strange, violent, animal-like man. After several months of using such a potion,
Dr. Jekyll began to engage in his own acts of evil. After doing this, he spontaneously transformed into Mr. Hyde while sitting in the park one day, without the help of his potion. Dr. Jekyll knew that he was growing weaker and that Hyde was beginning to take over his body. As the ingredients to reverse the transformation diminished, Mr.
Hyde would eventually take over Dr. Jekyllʼs body for good. This novel states that, “man is not truly one, but two.” With both forms trapped in one personʼs body, it is up to them to decide which they chose to be. As Dr. Jekyll engages in