Every person has a hidden good and evil persona. It is
totally upon him to use the good or bad qualities. We can find a scary element
when a normal human being tries to experiment on himself or separate the good
and evil. It gives the message that good and evil reside in each and every
person and it is u to you how you are going to use it. This novella narrates
the story of a lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange
occurrences between his old friend Dr. Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde.
We can read
about the split personality, a medical condition where within the same body
there exists more than one distinct personality. In the end, Hyde overpowers
Dr. Jekyll which be no longer is able to control and hence commits suicide. In
this novel, the duplicity of the human nature becomes more explicit, in fact
the same man, drinking a potion, can make dominant the one or the other
disposition of his soul. Mr. Hyde is deformed and smaller than Mr. Jekyll and
we can interpret it as the evil part is a small part of the human feelings.
Victorian age is not only a great age of great virtues but also of murders, atrocious rituals and sexual violence. This age is all a show of respectability, serenity and virtues, trying to imitate the queen Victoria. But, behind these virtues, this respectability, there is the 'dark side of the human world'. Perhaps, this is the real theme of this beautiful novel, where Jekyll is the incarnation of the virtues, and Hyde the evil part in the Victorian society and the human world.
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