The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

“If he be Mr. Hyde,” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”

Fantastic!

He was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good; his face seemed to open and brighten, as if with an inward consciousness of service; and for more than two months, the doctor was at peace.

He was denying the urge to become Mr. Hyde.

The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into his hand, and balanced it. “Do you know, Poole,” he said, looking up, “that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?”

This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

The true meaning of the story. Each person has both good and evil inside of them. Dr. Jekyll was at one time able to control the evil within him but over time the urges were too intense and he gave into them. At the end, he was both inwardly and outwardly both good and evil.