Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I enjoyed getting to finish Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It was very interesting to learn more about Doppelgangers, and how Stevenson used them in his novel. Without prior knowledge, the reader would never really know if Jekyll and Hyde were truly the same person or not. It only becomes clear when Hyde kills himself and Utterson reads Jekyll's true account of what really happened behind the mask of Mr. Hyde. I think it is interesting how Stevenson brings up a very interesting topic of the innateness of human beings. Are we inherently good or inherently bad? I believe Stevenson is proving that we are inherently bad when he reveals that Hyde has taken over Jekyll's body and ends up killing himself, both Jekyll and Hyde, for good. He reveals that even our moralistic selves, desire some kind of evil, and in Dr. Jekyll, that evil turned out to take his own life.