Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Double Conventions

In the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson uses the concept of Duality to bring light to what the Victorian Era was like. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written during the 19th century by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was written during the Victorian Society which made them have strong moral values. Aggression and hostile behavior was not tolerated and considered a sin. The upper class had a fear of losing their morality. Which is why the author includes the characters in the story battling themselves. He is bringing light of what goes on in the victorian period kinda making a mockery of them.
In the novel we can see the clearest example of the use of double convention to represent the duality of nature. The whole theme of the story is seeing. Jekyll is a “lover of the sane and customary sides of life” but Hyde touches his imagination making him evil. Is he really evil or is that we want them to be seen as. The author uses the aspects of secrecy and duality with the supernatural and it’s genre Robert Louis Stevenson leaves his readers in suspense as to the true identity of Mr. Hyde. Take his laboratory and

the house as an example it is a strong symbol of the public and private life. In the last chapter we get an explanation of why Dr. Jekyll did what he did. We can look at our society and see exactly what the novel displayed we live in a world where not everything we see is what it seems. Dr. Jekyll was Mr. Hyde the whole time and us as a reader didn’t even know about it.
One reason that the tale I think might still be popular is the psychological power of the idea of Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Many people claim to have a “ Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde” personality or claim to know someone with it. The author did a good job relating to a lot of his readers. According to Dalrymple it allows people to be able to say though they may do evil thing they are essentially good. Hyde wears Christian Morality very prominently on it’s shoulders . It’s a message that is very clear one is a god fearing goodness and the other one is the temptation to evil. Like in the novel tells us that there evil part as much as a bad side. The one dimensional Hyde is not separate from his personality. Jekyll final note testifies to his faith as a Christian. “I was driven to reflect deeply on that hard law of life which lies in the root of

religion.
In the end Hyde is Jekyll without any Barriers and the man Jekyll wants to be in the light. Which is why I believe that this book was written to show people that we might have a good and evil side. Everyone has one he’s saying that it is not a bad thing to have a bad side that we all have it and it’s okay if we can’t sometimes control it. It’s part of being human. We are created to make mistakes and not be perfect. Which is a perfect representation of what that look like in the book. Although some of the characters in the book committed suicide that’s doesn’t make them a bad person. So what does a good person really look like are we all somewhat bad in some way.