Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Good Vs Evil

Evil is Everywhere

“We all have good and bad inside of us. It’s what we chose to follow that defines who we really are” J.K Rowling. That quote represents this novella really well by explaining that human beings can literally be whatever they please it is what you do with your “power” that makes you who you really are. In this novella The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson shows that there is a huge struggle between good and evil found in many themes present in the story such as the yin-yang, angel vs. devil and reality vs. pleasure. It clearly shows that as a human race we cannot focus with out the other emotion being present in their everyday lives. The yin-yang symbol is presented widely throughout the story. The

Pleasure humans really cannot tell the difference. In the novella the reader is constantly switching sides between reality and pleasure. The reader cannot really choose a side to go with. “His heart was struck by a cold thrill of terror ad he fled from the scene trembling yet glorified” (Chapter 10). This indicates that there are two sides to humans and even though it is bad, and they should not do it does not mean that they are not going to. This also means that when in the novella the reader sees many differences between the two Main Characters Jekyll and Hyde. Hyde is smaller than Jekyll because it is his little secret you can infer that Hyde is terribly ugly because of the potion that Jekyll is drinking because he says, “ I never saw a man I disliked and, yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity…” (Chapter 1). The reader starts to question if Jekyll is looking at himself in the mirror because in real life humans cannot hate a guy they have never met unless it is a darker force that is being taken over. The reality of this would be that you think that humans are perfectly fine but on the inside there is so much more than what humans know about each