Humans and Our Alter-Egos Portrayed in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Steveson

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In the novella ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ which was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the Victorian era was a book first published in 1886 in England. This book brought a huge amount of success to the author. In this book Stevenson explains to the reader that humans have multiple sides to each other, and he explains that there isn’t just one central attitude. Stevenson explains to the reader that humans have a lot of different sides to each other some good and some bad. He also explains how duplicitous humans are and the theory of having an alter-ego. His concept explains how humans can have one side and act one certain way and then at the same time switch to a different side of themselves and act completely different and they may not even know themselves that they act like this. The text for ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ was written in the Victorian era which means it was around in the 1800’s. In those days the culture was extremely different to today’s culture. They had to live by strict moral codes even as a middle class person. Values back then were also different from today as ...

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