The Human Monster
Stevenson Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: Glencoe,2002
The battle between good and evil is the major theme of Stevenson’s novel. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stern acknowledges the battle when he states “Jekyll and Hyde was his first huge selling success in England and America; he wrote it as a shilling shocker, and it became popular at once and ever after as a symbolic portrayal of the dual nature of man, with the moral invested: not to impress us by the victory of good over evil, but he warn us of the strength and ultimate triumph of evil over good once sin is suffered to enter human habitation” (Stern 388). Dr. Jekyll, the protagonist of the novel, is a kind and respected man. His friends, however, cannot understand his companionship with the wicked and mysterious Mr. Hyde, who seems to have come from nowhere and has a terrible hold on Dr. Jekyll. As Hyde commits crimes that shock all of London, nobody can guess how and why the two men are so close to each other. Stevenson uses the dual nature of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to convey the conflict of good versus evil in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The battle between good and evil is the major theme of Stevenson’s novel. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stern acknowledges the battle when he states “Jekyll and Hyde was his first huge selling success in England and America; he wrote it as a shilling shocker, and it became popular at once and ever after as a symbolic portrayal of the dual nature of man, with the moral invested: not to impress us by the victory of good over evil, but he warn us of the strength and ultimate triumph of evil over good once sin is suffered to enter human habitation” (Stern 388). Dr. Jekyll, the protagonist of the novel, is a kind and respected man. His friends, however, cannot understand his companionship with the wicked and mysterious Mr. Hyde, who seems to have come from nowhere and has a terrible hold on Dr. Jekyll. As Hyde commits crimes that shock all of London, nobody can guess how and why the two men are so close to each other. Stevenson uses the dual nature of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to convey the conflict of good versus evil in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Chapter10 reveals all the previous mysteries and underscores the theme of the whole story. Mr. Hyde, Jekyll explains, does not simply have his own body but his own independent mind. Once in the body and mind of Hyde, the good side of his soul has no power. Enfield says, "There was a man in the middle, with a kind
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