Identity In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. hyde is a strange story indeed. A courageous young doctor with dreams of extracting a universal medicine that could cure the social and individual consciousness and bringing it to a state of nirvana. Through the unfolding of events, the doctor manifests another identity every time he takes the drug, unleashing a horrible man known as Mr. hyde who commits different atrocities and various acts of crime. Eventually Mr. hyde is clawing at the cellar doors and Dr. jekyll is forced to suppress the opposite identity by taking both of their lives in a single act of suicide. Dr. jekyll is true questioner of the human mind and wants to answer the calling of peace and prosperity by using the alchemical process of dissolution or using different properties to create a drug to transform the human intellect into a …show more content…
jekyll submits to the fact the only way to end this monstrous spree is to terminate Mr. hyde, and the only way of accomplishing that is by eliminating Dr. jekyll. So in coming to this conclusion he knows he must act upon it soon, or Mr. hyde will take over and destroy everything if not more of what the doctor had come to achieve and leave only the reminisce of a once brave and outstanding mind diluted by a devilish replacement fueled by only the filth that resides within the human consciousness.
Good and evil are not distinct from each other but intertwined and defined by each other. Dr. Henry Jekyll created and tried a drug to separate good and evil, he finds his situation untenable. The crimes and barbarity Hyde carries out, made Dr.Jekyll so repulsed it drove him to kill himself, ending the life of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde. Dr. Jekyll learned that good and evil cannot exist altered or separated, good and evil must exist alongside each other. It is instead an internal battle that defines human