Dr. Jekyll

Duality is a major theme in all romantic novels. It is the idea that every person is made up of two halves, the good and the evil of man. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll tries to split the two halves and bring out his evil side. It appears in other romantic novels too, an example is Dracula. Dracula is the evil fighting the good that is represented by man.
Dr. Jekyll manages to isolate and separate his evil side from the whole, creating in the process two very different people; Jekyll, who represents not pure good, but the whole of a person, and Hyde, who represents pure evil, and contains little, if any, of Jekyll in him. These two characters stand in stark contrast to one another through the novel, and Jekyll, in his narra...