Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

The strange case of Dr.jekyll and Mr.Hyde  

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It is a gothic-science fiction novel that follows the basic template established by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Frankenstein.

The central feature of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is its theme of duality. Every individual has two sides within the self Good as well as bad. So like this Dr. Jekyll has Two personalities one is opposite and other is antagonistic mesh within one body. The novel has a rich potential for psychoanalytic criticism. In many ways like  Jekyll can be seen as the superego that portion of the human consciousness that attempts to control the physical urges of the id.  Dr. Jekyll is increasingly unable to control his alter ego. His identity becomes fragmented into Jekyll and Hyde and then the Hyde persona begins to manifest itself unexpectedly. 

Dr. Henry Jekyll who is widely respected, successful, and possesses a brilliant intellect but is only too aware of the duplicity of the life that he leads, and of the evil that resides within him. Dr. Jekyll covertly provides utterance to the evil in his soul by various unspeakable acts, but is afraid of doing so openly because of the fear of social criticism. In the course of his experiments, he succeeds in producing a concoction that enables him to free this evil in him from the control of his good self, thus giving rise to Edward Hyde.

In  the novel, Dr. Jekyll gives in to his impulses and after initial pleasure soon cannot control their power. He  let Mr. Hyde go free and realizing that Hyde needs Jekyll to exist he decides to end his own life.