Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Moral Analysis
Morals Aside
In the book The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll And Mr.Hyde Dr.Jekyll is torn between good and evil. The idea has been well discussed in the real world that we all have a split personality that for most of us if there weren't any consequences we would act on that duel personality. The book portrays the ongoing battle between morals and ethics, just how important image and the opinion of others affects our personalities and decisions. Dr.Jekyll represents the influence of good while Hyde represents the inner thoughts and urges not often fulfilled by our actions.
Dr.Jekyll is living a life where he is battling for possession of two personalities one with the ideal morals and one that acts on the evil or unethical decisions. He has spent most of his life trying to ignore the wrong and avoid causing harm to those around him. But in the end, it is his mistake of making a serum that can change his form into another appearance a younger,mischievous, purely evil personality all so he could live out his fantasies of doing wrong without consequences. “There was something strange in my sensations, something …show more content…
Jekyll did not create the potion to remove the evil urges and place them into another body, he made the potion of she could transform his appearance to be unrecognisable so he expresses his urges and evil behavior so those around him would not know it was him. Hyde is a disguise for Jekyll, Hyde is not another person but Jekyll with another appearance. The highest misconception is Jekyll wants to do all of the actions brought out by Hyde. Becoming Hyde brings him a sense of freedom as it would for a lot of us. Most would not take it to the extreme as Jekyll does but in the end, we all have urges and thoughts that more often than not we never follow through with because we are afraid of punishment and judgement of others which helps us contain most of the “Hyde” in
In the book The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll And Mr.Hyde Dr.Jekyll is torn between good and evil. The idea has been well discussed in the real world that we all have a split personality that for most of us if there weren't any consequences we would act on that duel personality. The book portrays the ongoing battle between morals and ethics, just how important image and the opinion of others affects our personalities and decisions. Dr.Jekyll represents the influence of good while Hyde represents the inner thoughts and urges not often fulfilled by our actions.
Dr.Jekyll is living a life where he is battling for possession of two personalities one with the ideal morals and one that acts on the evil or unethical decisions. He has spent most of his life trying to ignore the wrong and avoid causing harm to those around him. But in the end, it is his mistake of making a serum that can change his form into another appearance a younger,mischievous, purely evil personality all so he could live out his fantasies of doing wrong without consequences. “There was something strange in my sensations, something …show more content…
Jekyll did not create the potion to remove the evil urges and place them into another body, he made the potion of she could transform his appearance to be unrecognisable so he expresses his urges and evil behavior so those around him would not know it was him. Hyde is a disguise for Jekyll, Hyde is not another person but Jekyll with another appearance. The highest misconception is Jekyll wants to do all of the actions brought out by Hyde. Becoming Hyde brings him a sense of freedom as it would for a lot of us. Most would not take it to the extreme as Jekyll does but in the end, we all have urges and thoughts that more often than not we never follow through with because we are afraid of punishment and judgement of others which helps us contain most of the “Hyde” in