Façade From The 1996 Musical Jekyll And Hyde

The song "Façade from the 1996 musical Jekyll and Hyde displays the way people mask themselves in order to become someone who they are not and to display a balance of good and evil; these same ideas are discussed in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies. An example of people displaying a mix of good and evil in "Façade" is where the song discusses that society plays a game where everyone is, "Actin' a bizzare charade- / While playing the saint!" ("Façade 20-21). The use of the term "saint" in the song symbolizes that people try to act in accordance to the rules of society and do what they believe is best. However, this is contradicted by the previous line, where people are simply acting as if they have good intentions, but they may truly