Mr Hyde Duality
Every person has the ability to kill another. Thought the statement may seem harsh and untrue, a deeper look into one's carnal instincts would prove the claim to be correct. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, published in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson, is about a man who transforms between the two personae: Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde. Dr. Jekyll was the front runner and sawn to be polite and overall a moral person and Mr. Hyde, his deformed and polar opposite side. The book is a critic at the hypocrisy of society in the way it shuns the duality of humanity but continues to promote it in political policies. Dr. Jekyll's and Mr. Hyde's personas portray the idea that people are born with the desire to do "heinous" acts and most
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In Dr. Jekyll's full statement of the case he says "And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public" (Stevenson 73). The statement stipulates one is not born with morality and rather must learn their scruples that society has deemed expectable by society and its ideals of an ingratiating person. Dr. Jekyll indicates here, as he did throughout his confession, it was not the fact of having such horrendous desire that kept him hiding, but the way he would be perceived by the world around him. His desires may have only been the desires that we all hold inside of us, but in his case he was less …show more content…
They way one reacts and copes with these two opposing factors is what makes a person unique. Dr. Jekyll did not handle these two forces well and goes on to say that "those provinces of good and ill, which divide and compound man’s dual nature” (Stevenson 74). Dr. Jekyll felt that his morality and instinct were so different and powerful by themselves that he needed two different people. However, he does not successfully transform into two different beings, but transforms from his regular self and a purified instinctual being. This clearly shows that no one is truly good and moral but truly
In Dr. Jekyll's full statement of the case he says "And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public" (Stevenson 73). The statement stipulates one is not born with morality and rather must learn their scruples that society has deemed expectable by society and its ideals of an ingratiating person. Dr. Jekyll indicates here, as he did throughout his confession, it was not the fact of having such horrendous desire that kept him hiding, but the way he would be perceived by the world around him. His desires may have only been the desires that we all hold inside of us, but in his case he was less …show more content…
They way one reacts and copes with these two opposing factors is what makes a person unique. Dr. Jekyll did not handle these two forces well and goes on to say that "those provinces of good and ill, which divide and compound man’s dual nature” (Stevenson 74). Dr. Jekyll felt that his morality and instinct were so different and powerful by themselves that he needed two different people. However, he does not successfully transform into two different beings, but transforms from his regular self and a purified instinctual being. This clearly shows that no one is truly good and moral but truly