Jekyll and Hyde

[Lauren age 15]

Stevenson has used the Jekyll and Hyde to show that a everyone has good and evil in them . He portrays this very well by using the setting to portray good and evil. he wrote the book at the time of many murders were happening in the east end of london. He is making a very imortant point which is every bit relevant today as it was in the nineteenth century. This is that suppression of the less socially acceptable facets of the human can lead to sudden violent outpourings, such as seen in Hydes murder of Sir Danvers Carew. he was one of the first writters to stress this point and use double nature in his work. I really enjoyed reading the book. Jekyll is a hypocrite, although he admitts that he enjoyes the wicked part of his nature, he canot acept it is a natural part of him and therefore seeks to separate it from him in his scientific experiments.