An essay on ;the strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

In the class of L/L Writing we start sawing Literary Essay, we analysed and learn how to write one. The teachers assing us to creat our Literary Essay about the themes of "The Strange cas of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde",she tell us to do it in pairs, I do it with Agustin Fila
Here it is our essay:

An essay on "The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" 

In the story "The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde", whose author is Robert Louis Stevenson, a scientific wants to separate the evil part from the good part of a human. When he creates the potion, he drinks it, and he transforms in his evil part "Mr.Hyde" and he become addict. This takes him to his death when he commits suicide because he cause damage to many people. The themes to analyse in this essay are; Violence, The Rational vs. the Irrational and The Duality of Human Nature.

The story has powerful violent scenes. In a way Mr.Hyde it is innocent, because for example the girl and the man that Hyde kills are innocent but also Dr.Jekyll can be guilty because he knows what the potion does  and he drinks it anyway. At night when Mr.Hyde appears he scares people and sometimes he kills them like a frightener. Dr.Jekyll can be also innocent because he gots addict to the potion and when he drinks it, his bad part of his body controls him. For example: " The man trampled calmly over the childs body and left her screaming on the ground".

In the story Dr.Jekyll is irrational when drinks the potion because he was addict, at first when he was rational because he knows that when he drinks the potion he transforms in the bad part of his body, "Mr.Hyde". Mr.Hyde is irrational because he has no control of himself, he kills, murders and scares people when Dr.Jekyll drinks the potion. For example "unspecified, vague, but ominous allusions  to pleasures and dreadful vices somewhere behind the scenes. On the one side there is 'reality'; on the other, 'a nightmare world'."

The theory of a dual human nature explains only after all the events of the story are analyse; including Hyde`s crimes and his ultimate eclipsing of Dr.Jekyll; in the story at the ends appears the discovery that Dr.Jekyll was Mr.Hyde. Jekyll creates the potion to separate his sides, at first his good side dominates him, but when he got addict to the potion his bad part start to dominate him, until he commicts suicide to stop it. For example Utterson says that Hyde is "troglodyte" and he nevers imagines that Hyde and Jekyll are the same man, as he finds it impossible to reconcile their strikngly different behaivor.

In "The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" the author writes powerful themes as Violence and The Rational vs. the Irrational. But the theme that means more for me is The Duality of Human Nature, because the story is base in these theme. Reading this makes me realize how different the evil part of someone can be from the good one. This is so different that the crimes of Hyde takes Jekyll to commict suicide.