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A 6 page paper which examines the good and evil, or the duality of humanity, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of those incredibly classics that still stands to intrigue and entertain people today. It is a story that offers the reader many incredible elements.
It is, in some ways, a science fiction story of sorts, a story about humanity, a story of mystery and intrigue and murder, and a story that speaks of the
intricacy of good and evil in the world of human kind. The following paper examines the nature of good and evil in the novel as it applies to the duality
of humanity and human nature itself. The Nature of Good and Evil in Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde In first looking at this
particular novel it is perhaps important to uncover some information about Stevenson that seems incredibly relevant to the story. It seems that Stevenson, when suffering from an illness, was actually
given "a potentially deadly hallucinogenic fungus" (Goodwin). According to records, records apparently written a few weeks before he started this novel, his wife notes that he demonstrated "mad behavior" and
she believes it was the drug as he was irrational (Goodwin). In these respects it appears as though perhaps Stevenson himself encountered a dark side of himself that he was
not aware of prior to the drug, and it could well be argued that it inspired him to write this story, a story that delves into the dark side of
human nature, an evil side. The story itself is about a man, Dr. Jekyll, who experiments with science and comes up with a drug, a drug that pulls out
the character of Mr. Hyde from within Dr. Jekyll. His true story does not come out until he is dead, although there is mysterious evidence, such as evidence of murders
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