Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Essay -- Jekyll Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThis novella, although unapparent, is intertwined with many aloneegorical undertones. Stevenson uses the book to criticise Victorian edict and its insincere existence. The most significant thematicconcern of the novella is the continually revisited theme of theduality of man and the camouflaged evil that lies deep at heart the homo race.Stevenson was writing out front the period in which the greatpsychologist Sigmund Freud was researching the human mind, so in someways Stevenson was ahead of his time in resolving the mystery of themind. Stevensons novella, after being added to by his wife on thebooks revision, contained much evidence of these theories of thehuman psyche.Armed with this weapon, Stevenson used the novella to attack thehypocritical ways of the Victorian caller he lived in. The themeplays on the theme of a part of the unconscious, the id. The id isthe Hyde part of a human, which is of course repressed, undevelopedand primitive, with the audition for hunting and sex. Then on the otherhand is the superego, your conscience and morality, with the vagabond between the two, the ego. Jekyll stresses that, man is non truly one, but truly two.This all links to the theme of hypocrisy in Victorian society. Jekylladmits, ...and it was as a secret sinner that I at last fell beforethe assaults of temptation. Stevenson tries to reveal the doublelives that were being lived around this era. Some critics believe thatthis is a self-confession of Stevensons sinful past. Jekyll is theperfect representation of hypocrisy, as he is described as thespotless Jekyll yet continuously lying to Utterson and one couldargue, soci... ...en to partake in his, scientific balderdash.One more symbol is apparent. The constitute to the science lab is a symbol ofpower and authority and in this case, the key holds sinful power,therefore Hyde is the one who has the power to change back intoJekyll. When Utterson and Poole search fo r the key and fail to findit, they cannot overcome evil. This also means that they do not substantiateaccess to evil, as they are sinless in the story.It is exposed that Jekyll started with selfish intentions when hestrived for a better self, this is why the experiment lone(prenominal) strippedJekyll of the Jekyll veneer, leaving the Hyde interior. And thatJekyll is in fact a host for the aeonian bombardment of metaphors,especially with hypocrisy as Jekyll represents hypocrisy and theVictorian society itself.In Hyde, you have no Jekyll but in Jekyll, you always have some Hyde