Do you agree or disagree with the following quote:
“The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison house of my disposition and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth”
Jekyll’s drug is not a drug that makes people evil, it is a drug that releases an individual’s desires which are seen as wrong and immoral but allow the individual to partake in the desires without feeling guilty.There is a reason that humans are made with the both good and bad sides and that is so that we can balance the sides out to make us a better person. It is necessary for humans to create an equilibrium within themselves and the feeling of guilt is something we naturally possess …show more content…
The potion was certainly not divine as Jekyll is going against God and creates a potion which surpasses the boundaries of moral rightness and Jekyll is well aware of this. After all, he witnessed Lanyon’s reaction to his plan for his potion which was a neon yellow warning sign telling him that his experiment was a costly one. Within each human, there is a good and bad side which need to be balanced. Hypothetically speaking, if we view as the goodness in an individual as the representation of God and the evil side as the Devil, Jekyll’s potion separated the two sides and allowed his evil side to reign freely. Moreover, since Jekyll’s potion was designed to keep separate the good and evil sides of an individual, not only crossing moral boundaries and going against God, he experimented on a potion that supported on solely acting as himself and an alter-ego of the same person but with the temptations lured in by the devil. Also, it is almost as if Jekyll is suggesting that had he been thinking ‘good’ thoughts at the time he drank the potion, he would have become a good person and therefore making his potion ‘divine’ in which his remark can be accepted with the knowledge that he refused to acknowledge that he (Jekyll) was the same human that committed the sins as his alter-ego created by the potion, Hyde. We …show more content…
Ironically, Jekyll uses a reference to the Bible where God causes an Earthquake at the prison in Philippi where Paul and Silas are being held and although all the doors were opened and everyone was freed, Paul and Silas remain in the prison to turn themselves in whereas the criminals are running free. Stevenson suggests that while the potion allowed Hyde to run around freely and commit his atrocious actions, Jekyll still remains. Simply, Hyde is Jekyll’s evil side materialised- but they are two sides of the same coin. I do not agree with Jekyll’s comment because the potion did not set himself free, it only bound him to act upon his impulses in the form of a stranger. However, it is true that Jekyll remained similarly to how Paul and Silas remain in the prison house because in the end, Jekyll ends up killing himself to put an end to the atrocious actions which he commits in the form of
“The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison house of my disposition and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth”
Jekyll’s drug is not a drug that makes people evil, it is a drug that releases an individual’s desires which are seen as wrong and immoral but allow the individual to partake in the desires without feeling guilty.There is a reason that humans are made with the both good and bad sides and that is so that we can balance the sides out to make us a better person. It is necessary for humans to create an equilibrium within themselves and the feeling of guilt is something we naturally possess …show more content…
The potion was certainly not divine as Jekyll is going against God and creates a potion which surpasses the boundaries of moral rightness and Jekyll is well aware of this. After all, he witnessed Lanyon’s reaction to his plan for his potion which was a neon yellow warning sign telling him that his experiment was a costly one. Within each human, there is a good and bad side which need to be balanced. Hypothetically speaking, if we view as the goodness in an individual as the representation of God and the evil side as the Devil, Jekyll’s potion separated the two sides and allowed his evil side to reign freely. Moreover, since Jekyll’s potion was designed to keep separate the good and evil sides of an individual, not only crossing moral boundaries and going against God, he experimented on a potion that supported on solely acting as himself and an alter-ego of the same person but with the temptations lured in by the devil. Also, it is almost as if Jekyll is suggesting that had he been thinking ‘good’ thoughts at the time he drank the potion, he would have become a good person and therefore making his potion ‘divine’ in which his remark can be accepted with the knowledge that he refused to acknowledge that he (Jekyll) was the same human that committed the sins as his alter-ego created by the potion, Hyde. We …show more content…
Ironically, Jekyll uses a reference to the Bible where God causes an Earthquake at the prison in Philippi where Paul and Silas are being held and although all the doors were opened and everyone was freed, Paul and Silas remain in the prison to turn themselves in whereas the criminals are running free. Stevenson suggests that while the potion allowed Hyde to run around freely and commit his atrocious actions, Jekyll still remains. Simply, Hyde is Jekyll’s evil side materialised- but they are two sides of the same coin. I do not agree with Jekyll’s comment because the potion did not set himself free, it only bound him to act upon his impulses in the form of a stranger. However, it is true that Jekyll remained similarly to how Paul and Silas remain in the prison house because in the end, Jekyll ends up killing himself to put an end to the atrocious actions which he commits in the form of