Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Human Nature Essay

In the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, uses the characters in the book to talk about the two sides of the human nature. He says that everyone has two different sides; a good side and an evil side. Some people may accept the fact that they have both, but others try to convince themselves that they do not.
In this novel, the most obvious characters used to explain the two sides of human nature are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They are both the same person, but by mixing chemicals and drinking a solution, Dr. Jekyll splits his human nature in half by creating a man named Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a man of pure evil which represents the bad side of his nature, and Dr. Jekyll is the good side of his nature. Dr. Jekyll

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to explain that our evil side is much more undeveloped than our good side because it is not used as much. This is why Mr. Hyde is smaller than Jekyll; it represents that his evil side was undeveloped, because he had rarely used it and because in his society if he was caught in the act of being bad, his whole reputation and life would be destroyed. This was the Victorian mindset, which simply means, that if a person heard about one bad thing we did then it would entirely change his or her opinion of us no matter how many good things we did leading up to that one bad

This dates back to beginning of time when the first people on Earth, Adam and Eve, were tempted to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge. They knew not to because they had been given specific instructions not to, but were so fascinated and tempted that they gave in and ate the fruit anyway. This was the first act of defiance and shows for the first time, the evil side of our nature come out and overpower our good side. This is similar to when Dr. Jekyll was fascinated and created a way to temporarily release his evil side. He knew it was the wrong thing to do, and he sort of even showed evil while creating Mr. Hyde because he knew what he was doing wrong and did it anyway. After he created Hyde he repeatedly gave into the temptation and committed acts of evil as Mr. Hyde. Jekyll did this because, like Adam and Eve, he was fascinated by evil, so since thousands of years ago when an evil act was first committed until now to when Dr. Jekyll created Mr. Hyde we are still fascinated and sometimes over taken by evil. This is how the author tells how we humans have always been fascinated with the evil side of our nature that exists inside all of