Bloom has been teaching at Yale University since 1955. The American Academy of Arts and Letter Gold Medal for Criticism was given to Harold Bloom in the year 1999. Both good and bad sides have their own ways of changing one’s identity either permanently or temporarily. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” debates the conflict between good and evil and the correlation among bourgeois violence, urban violence, and class structure.” (Bloom) Harold Bloom displays the difference between the good and bad taking place in the book. The theme shows there are good and bad people in this world today. Crimes, murders, robberies are all forms of evil or bad and the theme relates to this idea.
In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, there are conflicts which arise between the good and the evil sides. People performing bad tasks such as crimes are a form of evilness, while the ones creating history through the good and kindness are the positive side. The book displays the types of steps taken by a person to become kind or evil. Either negative or positive the book teaches a life lesson on both the sides. The theme of the book is to show the difference between both side and the results, which are important in the real world as