The book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde made the biggest impact on me. This book was written in the late 1800’s and the theme still has deep meaning today. In my opinion, the theme of the story is based on the idea that we all have a good side and an evil side. I believe that there are life lessons to this idea. I also enjoyed the theme because I could relate to it in some ways. Dr. Jekyll was a very kind and friendly man, unsuspected to be the cause of any evil. However Dr. Jekyll had a dark side bottled up inside him. He succeeded in devising a solution to separate his dark side from his light side.
His potion turned Dr. Jekyll into a purely evil character Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll turned back into his good side by drinking the solution again. Only there was a problem. Dr. Jekyll enjoyed letting out his evil side so he could be wicked. Therefore he began to let Hyde out more often. To Dr. Jekyll this seemed fun and jocund, until his dark side began doing more and more violent acts. Mr. Hyde started to get out control. Mr. Hyde was dominating Jekyll. The death of Henry Jekyll came to be when Hyde came into control permanently. I believe that I myself have a good side and a bad side.
The Essay on Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Evil Will Prevail
In the 1886 classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, author Robert Louis Stevenson creates a mysterious tale of good versus evil and the dual nature of man. It is for the reader to decide if good or evil prevails in the end. In this argumentation, evil prevails. Jekyll asserts, Man is not truly one, but truly two, in other words every man has the ability to be good or evil. But ...
I like to think that I usually show my good side, but every once in a while I let out my evil side. We must remember that we have to keep these sides balanced. Jekyll made a mistake in trying to separate the two. One can make either a bad choice or a good choice. We should always try to make a good choice. A bad decision every once in a while should not lead to any harm as long as we generally stay on a good path. However if were not careful a single bad choice could lead to another and to another, until we are in so deep we can’t return to a good path.
This happens because evilness is almost like a drug, in a way that it draws you to more harm more than its already doing to you. This usually ends up in catastrophe like it did when Jekyll became drawn to Mr. Hyde. Jekyll made bad choices by turning into Hyde to many times until he lost control and ended up dead. In conclusion, there are lessons we must learn from the theme. We should have balance to our dark sides and our good sides. We also must be careful not to make to many bad decisions because it can lead to evil and misfortune.
