Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Duality Of Man

The duality of man is an on-going theme across Stevenson’s book ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. This can be seen through Jekyll’s repression of his desires, the spilt nature of characters and Hyde’s atavism.
The schism between mind and heart is conveyed throughout Stevenson’s novel ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. The disagreement between the desires and expectations of man are highlighted throughout the text, especially through the different personality of ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Jekyll thought he was able to control Hyde, stating he can be ‘rid’ of him at any given ‘moment’. However, it is evident in ‘Jekyll’s full statement on the case’, the shackles that once restrained Mr Hyde were broken, and it was Hyde who was in control of

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The book was immediately criticised for its apparent attack on the church. The thought that humans were once monkeys was one of the many misconceptions about the book, presenting the ignorance towards the revolutionary idea Charles introduced at the time. Twenty seven years later, when Stevenson published this novel presenting atavism through Hyde ‘ape-like’ appearance. Utterson describes Hyde as ‘hardly human’ and Enfield described him as a ‘damned juggernaut, highlighting the difficulty people experience to describe the ‘impression of deformity’ Hyde radiates. Hyde’s unnameable ‘malformation’ instils ‘images of terror’ and ‘causeless hatreds’ into the people around him, as people turned ‘sick’ with the ’desire to kill’ Hyde. This presents how Hyde was part of the human that was never meant to be seen, the lower being which could dent the humans’ arrogance at their so called perfect design. His very existence contradicts the idea of humans being a perfect creation, as Hyde could describe of a poltergeist of what man were like in the