Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Evil Vs Evil

How can a good guy have evil intentions? What does it mean to be evil? Could evil be lurking in an everyday person? How could we become monstrous? The epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton makes connections to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by showing us how monsters can be evil as well as be normal everyday people. Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alternative personality, Edward Hyde, is a fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde portrays how good men can be evil and how that can become monstrous with in our own society.

Within the book we find two alter egos with in one man. Jekyll’s is a very successful man in his endeavors. Jekyll himself

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde portrays what it means to be evil. The book use two characters to show the difference between good and evil. It also shows the reader how something that is good can be monstrous as well as something evil. Dr. Jekyll shows how being good can be monstrous. Dr. Jekyll shows the evil intentions that he had due to him knowing that he was Mr. Hyde. He tricks Mr. Utterson into believing that Jekyll his friend was innocent. “And the lawyer set out homeward with a very heavy heart. "Poor Harry Jekyll," he thought, "my mind misgives me he is in deep waters! He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.... His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into a sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing yet avoided. And then by a return on his former subject, he conceived a spark of hope. "This Master Hyde, if he were studied," thought he, "must have secrets of his own; black secrets, by the look of him; secrets compared to which poor Jekyll's worst would be like sunshine." (pg. 50) Mr. Utterson’s who is the lawyer who is looking into the investigation of the murders, first conclusion is not that Dr. Jekyll is evil, but that Mr. Hyde must be blackmailing Dr. Jekyll for some past sins. This conclusion is prejudiced by

Jekyll's actions and views. He develops a potion because of his views on good and evil. “It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness…even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.”(pg 1 chapter 10) Dr. Jekyll talks about the ability to separate good and evil. He uses terms like “separate identities” (1.10) to identify his evil intentions to separate good and evil. He goes on to say that his “Life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.”(10 1) Dr. Jekyll believes that good and evil should be separated from each other because he cannot balance them well when they are mingled. As we can see the intentions of his evil ways are clearly driven by his will to separate the evil part out of his body. He believes he is doing a good thing when for the most part the views as well as his will