What are the religious aspects in The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde?
Analysis of the book quoted from Wikipedia This novel represents a concept in Western culture, that of the inner conflict of humanity’s sense of good and evil [4]. The novel has been interpreted as an examination of the duality of human nature (that good and evil exists in all) and that the failure to accept this tension (to accept the evil or shadow side) results in the evil being projected onto others, paradoxically in this argument evil is actually committed in an effort to extinguish the perceived evil that has actually been projected onto the innocent victims, this failure to accept the tension of duality is related to Christian mythology where Satan’s fall from heaven is due to his refusal to accept that he is a created being (that he has a dual nature)and is not God [5]. It has also been noted as “one of the best guidebooks of the Victorian era because of its piercing description of the fundamental dichotomy of the 19th century outward respectability and inward lust” as it had a
