Corruption In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Are humans, upright or corrupt? Can humans really do anything “good?” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, involves one character playing as two. A well-known doctor in Soho, London named Henry Jekyll, invented his evil, alter-ego, Edward Hyde. Jekyll incorporated chemistry to invent a man-made person to fulfill his dastardly deeds without tarnishing his own reputation. Jekyll develops into Hyde with a potion, however the potion started to deteriorate, not fulfilling its duty. The chemistry cursed both, Jekyll and Hyde, to a point of possibly not ever returning to Jekyll’s reputable nature, cured Hyde into wanting to change back into Jekyll at the end of the novella, and cured Jekyll’s conscious to

Can humans really do anything “good?” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, involves one character playing as two. A well-known doctor in Soho, London named Henry Jekyll, invented his evil, alter-ego, Edward Hyde. Jekyll incorporated chemistry to invent a man-made person to fulfill his dastardly deeds without tarnishing his own reputation. Jekyll develops into Hyde with a potion, however the potion started to deteriorate, not fulfilling its duty. The chemistry cursed both, Jekyll and Hyde, to a point of possibly not ever returning to Jekyll’s reputable nature, cured Hyde into wanting to change back into Jekyll at the end of the novella, and cured Jekyll’s conscious to perform evil

Jekyll’s thought process was destroyed with these horrific pangs of mean wishes upon others. Lanyon, an old colleague of Jekyll, did not agree with Jekyll’s scientific works. Lanyon was more of a realist, while Jekyll performed more abstract procedures. Jekyll was cured from the possible stress that he might not live his life out to the fullest, so he created Hyde and did whatever he wanted. Hyde created a barrier Jekyll could pass and become however evil he desired. Jekyll, who was Hyde at this time in the book, wanted to go back to being Jekyll. However, was it the part of Jekyll that wanted to be Jekyll completely again or Hyde that wanted to be Jekyll again? We may never completely know. After all, Hyde loved evil, and Jekyll just loved the thought of evil. Those are two particularly contrasting views. Regardless, they were both cures in their eyes. Sin was made out to be an exuberant