Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is clearly and examination of the duality of human nature. This essay analyse’s the duality of the human beings
Dr Jekyll supposes that within each individual there are two sides, the favourable and corrupt, struggling to be in control. Dr Jekyll constituted hyde due to the way his senses was more corrupt, it was described as an evil side furious to be in authority. Dr Jekyll stated that the ingredients for his potion be ticular salt, compounds and elements, “I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together in the glass, and when the ebullition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.”. …show more content…
Jekyll believes man is dual with both sides, but fails to realise Hyde is just evil. There is not an even balance of good and corrupt in everyone. “With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the the truth, by whose partial discovery i have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: the man is not truly one, but truly two”. Jekyll stated that within every man there are two sides, and that every fellow/ woman has an uneven balance of either good or bad. “He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point”, Mr Hyde is characterised as a rare individual, “He gives a strong feeling of deformity, I couldn't specify the point” Edward Hyde in this context is characterised as the deformed gentlemen who sends out strange and dreadful vibes to the people of the society that interacts or communicates with