In the classs of writtin, we learn how to write a essay, and we have to write one, I chose rhe themes of “The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde”
The novel “The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde” written by Robert Louis Stevenson, he talks about a man called Dr.Henry Jekyll, who is interested in dividing the human soul. After years of experiments, obtain his goal but the results are not the expected ones. In this essay, duality of human nature, importance of reputation and the guilty and the innocent, which are the main themes of the novel, will be the centre of analysis.
In the Duality of Human Nature, Jekyll think that “man is not truly one, but truly two” this means that human, has two parts, the angel and the devil. So he creates a potion to separate it that only brings problems. This makes get out “Hyde” his “devil “part and he take control of him, they are totally opposite. Hyde is seen as an animalistic, troglodyte. “It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man”. He cause damages and kill people that may be, they are innocent, and on the other hand Jekyll is very respected, that really Hyde, is the side of Jekyll that people less see.
The importance of Reputation, is very important, it was a value system. Gossips for example are seen as a great destroyer of reputation, Utterson and Enfield every time avoid gossips, “Mr Utterson sighed deeply, but said never a word; and the young man presently resumed. J ´Here is another lesson to say nothing, ´ said he. ´I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again”. Jekyll is a respected man and this is the reason why Jekyll, could not show his devil part, because, he will lose, his reputation. But Hyde has a bad reputation, everybody is afraid of him.
The guilty and the innocent, violence, has to different points of view. The guilty could be Hyde because he is the one that everyone see murdering, however the one that creates him is Jekyll in fact. And the innocent also had different points of view. Of course the innocent are the victims of the murders of him, but also Jekyll could the innocent because he loses control over him and he cannot do anything to control Hyde. But in the story nobody see Jekyll as the innocent because it was his devil part. All the story Hyde kill people starting from the the little girl and finishing with Sir.Carew, “And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot, and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway”.
In “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, the themes, the Duality of Human Nature, the importance of Reputation and the guilty and the innocent are very important to understand the themes, because if you read it, it make you understand better the story.
