Jekyll & Hyde Themes

Struggle between good and evil

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

Is human nature essentially good or evil?

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

Is evil created by outside forces or internal?

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

19th century idea of Doppelganger – “double self”

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

Limits of science and reason in understanding “supernatural”

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

Reasonable – Utterson and Dr. Lanyon

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

Dr. Jekyll experiments on self

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

What are limits of experimentation?

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

What are the ethics of experimentation?

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL

When do the risks out weight benefits?

• DUAL NATURE OR SPLIT PERSONALITY

• REASON VERSUS THE SUPERNATURAL

• LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATION

• THE EFFECTS OF SOCIETY ON THE INDIVIDUAL