Personality and the Beast Within in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and

Personality and the Beast Within in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeEveryone has a dual personality, two fonts, good and evil. RobertLouis Stephenson uses the hand to explain this, he wanted tribe torealise that not just Dr Jekyll carries a double personality, but theother characters in the book too. Also the people reading it must seethat they too, are a part of this frightening uncontrollable fact,that there is the beast within us all.Stephenson suggests that all gentlemen keep secrets, restrictemotions, desires, and hide their true inner self. In the story Mr.Utterson is a great example of a gentleman (lawyer) needing tosuppress his less socially acceptable side for the sake of preservinghis respectable standing in society. Though he enjoyed the theatrehadnt crossed the doors of one for twenty years Utterson wasaustere with himself. Drinking alone alone, having the security ofknowing that he is the only person who might witness and thereforejudge him, the respecte d gentleman could appear a little tabu ofcontrol. Mr.Utterson feels that if he indulges in luxuries such asthese, he may become too involved and express himself freely, hesfrightened that he could conk out his image and loose his respectablereputation. Mr. Utterson hides his other side whereas Jekyll shows it,by choice or not.Once the theories of scientists such as Charles Darwin, HerbertSpencer and T.H Huxley became known people began to think of the adult malestruggle between good and evil and psychological terms. Ideas such asThe theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest,contradicted the teachings of the Old Testament, and lead many peopleto fountainhead Christianity. However many people w... ...cheap area reflecting the lives of Jekyll and Hyde. London,with excursions into low-life neighbourhoods, it too is aboutappearances and reputations, and involves an individual whom who livesa double life of outward pity and secret corruption. Jekyll uses theugly distorted Hyde as his body doubleThe Beast within is studied in this book. The most obvious case ofthis is within Dr. Jekyll and, Mr Hyde, however it shows in the otherstoo, not only in this book in the whole of civilisation. Once Dr.Jekyll has captured life for a while he is not just one, but two, Hydeis constantly struggling to capture out, each fighting for control. RobertLouis Stephenson tried to show that everyone displays a certain threatfrom their other side, fighting to escape from their desired image andthat it is not just unmistakable in this Gothic novel but within everyone.