The theme of the novel “life at all costs” is exemplified when Dr. Jekyll creates the potion that transforms in into Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll’s pursuit in the story is to find the dual nature in a man, a good side and an evil side. Dr. Jekyll was so determined to accomplish this pursuit he even experimented on himself by drinking the potion that would express the dual nature in him. This determination would exemplify the “life at all costs” theme. Jekyll was so driven that he made the misassumption that he could control Hyde and Jekyll on his own. But this would lead to his demise because he loses control of his transformation between Jekyll and Hyde. At the end of the story, when Utterson and Poole storm into Jekyll’s lab, they describe the scene as, “Right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back and beheld the face of Edward Hyde." (Stevenson 54). So not only did he lose control of Jekyll and Hyde, but in the end was permanently cast as Mr. Hyde. The risk that Jekyll took resulted in his terrible demise.
In today’s society, terrorists follow the mentality the “life at all cost”. Terrorists believe that that the world mocks them and does not help them like they help each other. They also believe that we do not live the correct way, and because of that they feel they have to prove themselves by destroying landmarks of other countries and even blowing themselves up so that other people can be hurt. If you are willing to commit suicide so that you can prove a point you obviously using a “life at all costs” mentality. This mentality has lead to the many needed deaths of both terrorists and the people they affect with their actions. That is why this mentality id definitely not one to follow.
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