‘I knew well that I risked death ‘, not accidental, scientific method, and this experiment leads to Hyde becoming Jekyll’s reward, not a punishment. He does not make a potion that removes his evil sides but one that helps him get rid of his guilt. Because Jekyll remembers and he is aware of everything he does when he is Hyde, we can claim that he is in control. However, he then loses control, lacking any sense of moderation ‘strange in my sensations’. Here we could say that he becomes an ‘unhappy victim’ of his own crime, as he is heading toward his ultimate downfall.
When he is Jekyll elements of his Hyde personality come out and the same for when he is Hyde. “I will tell you one thing: the moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde”(Dr. Jekyll 13). The only reason he would be acting like this, even though Jekyll is of a higher class, he wants to be associated with Hyde for a reason he does not want his friends to know. As if Jekyll was not acting odd enough already he defends Hyde no matter he does, Jekyll always attempts to justify Hyde’s actions. Also he has listed everything in his will to Mr. Hyde for unknown reasons at the time only raising more curiosity from the charcters in the book as well as the reader.
He further explains that the evil deeds that we perform are of our own accord, and that we are punished by God’s justice because they are done out of our own free will. This argument leads perfectly into the question of free will because, like Aug, I agree that we are not taught evil. Aug explains to Ev that it is impossible to learn evil deeds. It is impossible to learn something evil because our intelligence is inherently good. Since our intelligence is inherently good it is not possible to take away from something that is good, something that is evil.
Sometimes Jekyll sees nature as simply that, natural, but at other times he sees it as evil. This is a kind of universal feeling, for what we call our natural instincts are in fact natural to a high degree, but on the other, they are so powerful that they threaten to override our concern for others, and in so doing are easily experienced as evil. Jekyll believes that he can separate the “good” and “evil” elements of the human into two separate beings. During his experiments, Jekyll feels he drew steadily nearer to that truth", "learned to recognise", and "began to perceive
Thus, he works to develop a way to separate the two parts of his soul and free his evil characteristics. However, as Vladimir Nabokov explains in an introduction to the Signet Classic version of the book, "[Jekyll] is a composite being, a mixture of good and bad...[and] Jekyll is not really transformed into Hyde but projects a concentrate of pure evil that becomes Hyde." Unfortunately, rather than separating and equalizing these forces of good and evil, Jekyll's potion only allows his purely evil side to gain strength. Jekyll is in fact a combination of good and evil, but Hyde is only pure evil. Thus, there is never a way to strengthen or separate Jekyll's pure goodness.
Good Requires Evil In a world of confusion, he who lives, lives by his own rules and morals. As in the comparison of pretty to ugly, it can be seen that good and evil only exist in their difference from one another. For example, if there was no definition of beauty, there would be no concept of ugly either. The dull response of “without evil, there is no good” holds much authority in this argument. Can we make the assumption that evil is just a division of a clear good?
This is exemplified by Charlie Dalton when he refused to do his walk when Keating ordered them to do so and when he changed his name to Nawanda which is a unique name. Keating encourages his students to don’t just consider what the author thinks when they read but consider what they think themselves; quoting Thoreau who said “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!” Emerson also wrote “To believe in your own thought, to believe what is true for you, in your private heart is true, that is genius!” Another element is the concept of “Carpe Diem” which was demonstrated by Knox who seized the day when he finally acted upon by his desire to call Chris. The third element is spirituality in nature as shown by the recitation of poem and the chanting of the boys in an Indian cave.
Morrie deteaches himself so that he can accept these predicaments in his life and so that he will be able to embrace his deathe easier since he’s well aware that it’s approaching. A quote Morrie constantly refers is to “Love each other or die”. He stresses this quote and major theme in the novel because he feels that an abundance of love and compassion is the highest sense of fulfillment that one can experience; especially because Morrie had such a significant lack of both love and compassion throughout his childhood. Love is so crucial to Morrie as he is nearing his final days of life because he feels that without the care of those who love him, he would perish. Morrie is not afraid of dying, however
My view on why god allows evil is that he does allow evil simply because of free will. I believe this because god is all-knowing he knows our next move but he gives us free will to choose evil from good or vice versa, but natural evil people wonder why god would allow this and simply I will state why. There are two kinds of evil in the world: moral and natural; both appear to exist in abundance. Moral evils are those evils that are freely inflicted upon humankind by humankind: Larson, adultery, murder, theft, etc. ; they result from the choices of free will.
Hyde is a representative from the figure of Satan, the evil, the personification of a Jekyll with the body lean and also ugly face. By a potion which made by him, Jekyll can be transformed into a figure of Hyde and then back again into the figure of Jekyll. He was doing so because he wanted to separate the good and bad traits that exist within him. He did not want to have two characteristics of that, then creating the figure of Hyde who became the representative of the nature of evil. By being Hyde, he can letting out his desire and it kind of his pleasure.