Analysis Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson

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In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson it explains the alternate personality that everyone has. The craving we want but we know it’s something bad or wrong to do. It’s the curiosity we all want to cross over and see if we can do it and if we do we want to try and get a little farther and farther each time because it is like an addiction. The amount of adrenaline we get is the fuel that feeds the addiction. In our current day society we all have our personal indulgement that we want to do. A modern day idea of it is in the movie The Purge. Within the movie all crime is legal, which allows you to let your inner Hyde out and do exactly what we all want to do. The curiosity of how far can I get and what can I do. Being

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