The Duality of Man

            An internal soul and external flesh, two separate personalities combine to make one stable and unique being. This being is above all a human, living and breathing in the daily breaths of air that fill up their lungs and give them life. These two sides co-exist together only through a certain balance and equilibrium forcing them to fit together. This is seen in the novel Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson when the mental instability inside of Jekyll is released not through, but as Hyde. This instability leads to a complete collapse of everything; mind and body, leading to the inevitable force within to completely and unwilling overtake Jekyll’s mind and body.

The idea duality in the fight within Jekyll trying to hide from his inner Hyde has shown that the in order for stability to occur, both the internal and external forms of the being have to fit together, or at least offset for the greater force to good to shine through. Consistently, this theme shows the two sides of every person, the inner hope or evil depression, and the mask of shame drowning out the inside. In the end evil is in all of us, it’s just how we are able to cope with it that makes success.  

*Man is not one, but two is a consistent theme throughout the novel. To get back to the writing that I am mosty use to i decided to write a slightly broad version of a literary analysis summing up the major theme of the novel.*