The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Hyde

Hall 1
Katlyn Hall
Fulkerson
Pre-AP English
12 May 2014
The Cause For Human Suffering
The novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson was a frail person that often fell deathly sick but has grown into a excellent writer. Stevenson was eventually forced to move out of his home country (London, England) to California. He nearly died on the way there. But when he made it, he created the famous novella in 1886. That novella is called "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The novella itself was written in four days which proves Stevenson's extreme talent as a writer. Inside the novella, it contained immense details and rich diction that had given the story life and meaning. The story contains a lot of interpretations and meanings throughout the novella which raises the question of the true meaning of the story. Some are concerned with the religious aspect of sin and temptation that caused Dr. Jekyll to permanently transformed into Mr. Hyde. Others pry on the physiological aspects of Dr. Jekyll's decisions and thought process that caused him wanting to stay as Mr. Hyde. In "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Stevenson uses Dr. Jekyll as a representation of man falling into temptation, and Mr. Hyde as the one who stays in sin.

The cause of how people have chosen evil has been a conceptual issue for thousands of years on many different perspectives. People from a religious point of view believe that the underlining cause of evil is sin and temptation. Half of the time humans can choose good over evil in situations based off the legal system and the moral standards of society. "The interest of work in the common would not hold it together, instinctual ...

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...n Dr Lanyon did, he was surprised to see Mr. Hyde meeting him and Mr. Hyde performed his experiment. The result horrified Dr. Lanyon because he saw Mr. Hyde transforming into Dr. Jekyll before his own eyes and the next day, he was found dead. "And now, you who have been so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derived your superiors-behold!"(Stevenson 47) Dr. Jekyll was so into the benefits of proving his long-time friend wrong of the science he was studying that he went to such lengths in knowing that it would cause immeasurable amount of terror in him. The consequence was Dr. Lanyon's death which seems to shriveled under the desire to prove someone wrong for Dr Jekyll and defied the rules of society in which so many humans wish to slip away from.