... Jekyll believes he is creating. The flaw that leads to Jekyll's downfall is his thinking in binary terms when he says, "man is not truly one, but truly two" (55). On the simplest level, Jekyll is a respectable scientist, but upon closer analysis Jekyll is not purely good evinced by the many temptations to which he succumbs. As a scientist, he "gave into the temptation of discovery" to create a drug that would painfully transform him into the evil Hyde (57). Jekyll's curiosity gives him the power to play God, which might be considered unethical by many. The fact that Jekyll believes this breakthrough to be a "temptation" also demonstrates his recognition of the potential disaster that could ensue due to his self-experimentation with drugs. In order for Dr. Jekyll to transform into Mr. Hyde, some evil must have originated in Jekyll. Jekyll supports this idea in his confession when ...

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