Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Interpreted By Daniel M

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the reader can easily tell that the protagonist, Dr. Jekyll pursues life at all costs- life of evil and life of good. Dr. Jekyll puts his life, image, and fortune at risk in order to pursue the duality of human nature. Jekyll's experimental curiosity to separate the good and evil portions of soul eventually snowballed into a sick and uncontrollable obsession to let his purely evil side free to cause mischief . "I think that instead, I enjoyed it more completely; but i was still cursed with my duality of purpose; ans as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence" (Stevenson 80).

Was this obsession to pursue the duality of life worth it? Well, the answer depends on how the reader interprets the novel, and the rewards and repercussions of Jekyll's experiments. I believe that it was worth it; Jekyll was the only man to comprehend and physically test the boundaries of the human soul. His discovery accomplished his search for life; he separated himself into the purely evil life of Hyde, which soon dominated his being. However Jekyll failed to accomplish the separation of himself into purely good, as at times the human and supposedly "good" Jekyll dealt with impulses of evil.

A modern example of people who risks their life, image, and fortune to pursue a new "life" at all costs are steroid abusers. If caught, steroid abusers will lose their life, fortune, and image just like Jekyll did. These people's curiosity and experiment with drugs to test the boundaries of their talents is similar to Jekyll's curiosity and experiment to test the boundaries of the soul.