The rise of evil in dr jeekyl and mr hyde

dangers of science and how it can easily go very wrong.

The thoughts of Dr Jekyll are very similar to Charles Darwin’s views on life evolution. Dr Jekyll thinks that if he can find a way to split his personalities, good from evil he can dispose of the evil and be pure good. Like Frankenstein, he is ‘messing’ with human life and it goes horribly wrong.

Dr Jekyll was born in to a wealthy family, he had a good education and was respected by all of the people who knew him. His future looked promising and there was nothing people could really criticise about him. People admired his light-hearted good nature but this annoyed him ‘but personally, I was annoyed by it’. Preferably he would have liked to be seen more serious, ‘I preferred to present an unchanging seriousness to the public’. He realises that all the people that know him don’t actually know him, know one but me knows my true nature.’ It was almost like he lived a second life and he had done things, which...