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 Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeThe bill is about a doctor called Jekyll who has an alternateidentity called Hyde. Until the last two chapters it is told from theview point of Mr Utterson a friend of Jekylls who is trying to piece unneurotic the story. It uses features of knightly novels such asdoppelganger which is an alternate identity. It also uses multiplenarratives to make the reader think, it also helps the reader solvethe case themselves, and piece the story together, from the stategiven. To a certain extent Stevenson also uses the monster feature inthe form of Edward Hyde. In this novel, Stevenson was trying to showthat beloved and evil are non separate within us but are a combined partof us so instead of trying to split them we should except the agreementand only then will we be able to make our good side prevail in thestruggle of good and evil.One of the features of a gothic novel used is the haunted be ar.Authors of gothic novels use a characters house to reflect thecharacters psychological troopsner.In this story Jekylls house is described as being grand and havingan air of wealth and comfort. 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 something to hide right at the beginning ofthe story I believe that with this Stevenson gives us a hint thatJekyll has some thing that he wants to hold off hidden. His house howeverhas a backdoor which is described as blistered and distained. This,... ...mic society by using thesplit personality of Jekyll and Hyde, which is emphasized by the twoentrances to his house, to show the heterogeneous views of people from thattime period. He also voiced the fear of most of the society throughhis monster Hyde, who is created through s cience 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 coverthat 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.