In The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde the central theme is that humans are dual natured and everyone has good and evil inside them.
Duality of Human Nature
"My evil finnally destroyed the balance of my soul"(p.51)
"I had come to the fatal cross-roads"(p.45)
"my two natures had memory in common"(p.48)
"I was slowly losing hold of my original, better self" (p.48)
"All human beings as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil"(p.45)
"provinces of good and ill witch divide and compound man's dual nature"(p.42)
"The spirit of hell awoke in me and raged"(p.49)
"that man is not truly one, but truly two"(p.43)
In the book it plays out many scenarios. Throughout the book it becomes clear that two characters in the book are found to co-mingle in the end. The two characters are dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde, Mr. Hyde is evil and dr. Jekyll is a well respected man, but these people are one. It makes it clear that every person has the capacity to live whatever Lifestyle they want and you must choose if you want to be good or evil.- Humans are meant to be dual natured and it is important to make sure that one of them doesn't over power the other. Throughout the story, well respected Dr. Jekll slowly falls into an addiction for excitement and evil until evil became his lifestyle and his excitement turned into misery.you cannot let your escape from life become