Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Good Vs Evil Essay

The theme of good and evil exists in this world. A famous book written in the Victorian Era embodies the description of evil. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s mystery novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Stevenson uses descriptive language to create a mood. Throughout the book, Stevenson uses metaphors to depict Hyde as evil. Dr. Jekyll has known Hyde is evil. Yet, he enjoyed it until he realized how Hyde was destroying him physically and mentally. Jekyll was losing control of his mind, his actions, and his goodness. After not drinking his potion so long to remain good, Dr. Jekyll became tempted and his “devil [who] had long been caged, came out roaring” and murdered Carew (Stevenson 65). Jekyll knew that he was losing his thoughts to a “child of Hell [that] had nothing human” (Stevenson 68). The word “devil” has long been used to symbolize evil. Therefore, Stevenson uses a straight symbol to describe Hyde as a sinister being. “Hell”, is a mythical place where people believed evil lives and where people who are “bad” go to. Stevenson uses it as an indirect hallmark to describe Hyde. Yet, Stevenson uses more methods to describe Hyde as an evil being. …show more content…
As the book goes on, the main characters, such as Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield, have used allusions to describe Hyde even though nobody knows what he actually is. In Mr. Enfield’s story of the trampled girl, he didn't know who or what Mr.Hyde was. There he could only say Hyde was “some damned Juggernaut” that “was hellish to see” (Stevenson 4). Mr. Utterson was curious to see the face of Mr. Hyde so he had an idea of what he was dealing with. When Utterson finally met Hyde, he “read Satan’s signature upon [his] face” (Stevenson 14). In the Bible, Satan is the definition of evil and Juggernaut comes from the Hindu mythology, making it an allusion referencing a