Archetypal Themes In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
The archetypal themes in the novella The Strange Case Of Jekyll And Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is that everybody has secrets and those secrets cause us to deceive those around us. This can be an issue when the people who are close realize they are being betrayed by the person to whom they feel close. The examples in the text was the big reveal of Jekyll and Hyde being the same person, the secrecy of the will which is how Jekyll kept it from Mr. Utterson, as well as why Jekyll was giving everything he owned to Hyde, also what mysterious matter was in the laboratory. Since Dr. Jekyll kept his dark side from everyone, because Jekyll was deceiving those who have been harmed or killed by Mr.Hyde. Some may say Jekyll was relying on Mr.Hyde