Is The Nature Of Evil In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

“Sometimes you don’t realize you’re drowning when you’re trying to be everyone else’s anchor,” -Unknown. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s prominent novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a dispute between good and evil is present throughout the outstanding book, especially in Henry Jekyll and his struggle with the two sides of life. Dr. Jekyll seems to be endeavoring to find himself and figuring out who he truly is, but loses himself and falls from grace in his lifetime. Not everyone is born good nor evil, but Stevenson’s philosophy explains how one can contain a harsh side and a cordial side.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s ideology states that everyone is born with equal parts of both good and evil, but the one you feed is the one you become. This philosophy is manifested in Henry Jekyll during his …show more content…
Jekyll’s good side is being compared to the sickness and agonies used in the quote above, which demonstrates how Jekyll has been holding in his sinful desires and expressing his good side. Stevenson recounts the way Jekyll endures this new side of him through “I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine” (Page 44). Jekyll’s true emotions of how he viewed his pleasant side compared to his foul side, were conveyed in his statement when he was in his contemporary identity. Jekyll’s original life as Henry was being dominated by the villainous appetite of the life he keeps on feeding is represented in a manner disclosed in “The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed. Again, in the course of my life, which had been, after all, nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue and