How Stevenson Explores the Nature of Good and Evil in the Strange Case

How Stevenson Explores the Nature of Good and Evil in the Strange study of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeThe myth is about a doctor called Jekyll who has an alternateidentity called Hyde. Until the know two chapters it is told from theview point of Mr Utterson a friend of Jekylls who is seek to pieceto wee-weeher the story. It uses features of gothic fables such asdoppelganger which is an alternate identity. It alike uses multiplenarratives to make the reader think, it overly helps the reader solvethe gaucherie themselves, and piece the story together, from the evidencegiven. To a certain extent Stevenson also uses the heavyweight feature inthe form of Edward Hyde. In this novel, Stevenson was provideing to attestthat inviolable and evil are not separate within us but are a combined partof us so instead of trying to split them we should except the unityand only thusly will we be able to make our good side die hard in thestruggle of good and evil.One of the features of a gothi c novel used is the haunted star sign.Authors of gothic novels use a characters house to reflect thecharacters psychological manhoodner.In this story Jekylls house is describe as being grand and havingan air of wealth and relieve. This mimics Jekylls personality as heis portrayed for the reader, a large, well-made, smooth-faced man.The description smooth-faced man gives the impression that he is notonly hiding his age but also the secrets that come with age. We getthe impression that he has aboutthing to hide right at the beginning ofthe story I believe that through this Stevenson gives us a hint thatJekyll has some thing that he wants to keep hidden. His house howeverhas a backdoor which is described as blistered and distained. This,... ...mic society by utilise thesplit personality of Jekyll and Hyde, which is emphasized by the twoentrances to his house, to show the mixed views of people from thattime period. He also voiced the fear of most of the society throughhis monster Hyde, who is created through science but cannot becontrolled. I believe not only does he express the fear of sciencegoing wrong, he also expresses the view of not playing God, by showingthat man might not be able to permanently control what he creates,which is shown by Jekyll loosing control of the transformation toHyde. He also tries to explain that the good and evil parts of us arewhat make us who we are and instead of trying to separate them andrisk losing control we should embrace them and try through ouractions, to let the good side prevail instead of using science todestroy us while trying to do well.