Good Vs. Evil

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” Dr. Jekyll would agree completely with this quote. He says himself that humans are a combination of good and evil. Though at first, his reasoning for why our action that define us is flawed, he is still able to keep his belief in our action as a deciding factor. Dr. Jekyll would agree with the first sentence of the quote, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us” as long as it applied only to human beings as they naturally exist. In the last chapter of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case, Dr. Jekyll writes “…all human beings as we meet them, are comingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” Mr. Hyde is “inorganic” and therefore does not qualify. Moreover, Dr. Jekyll’s original goal was to completely separate the good in himself from the evil. “…these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How then were they dissociated?” Dr. Jekyll was successful in creating a being which is wholly evil, however he was unsuccessful in separating out the evil within himself. This is because Dr. Jekyll is a naturally occurring human not forged with the
Jekyll would agree with the last two sentences of the quote, “What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” Partly due to his desire to keep the blame for Mr. Hyde’s crimes off of himself. As stated before, the purpose of the experiment was to completely separate his good from his bad so he could indulge in being bad whenever he wanted, but also have something completely good to come back to. Getting rid of the need to give in to evil tendencies eliminates the need for Mr. Hyde at all. Dr. Jekyll’s goals for himself were to keep his evil desires, but to be completely good at the same time. He cannot have both unless he only counts actions as the ultimate deciding