... overhead, was still bright with sunset." This reference to the weather symbolises the split personality of Dr Jekyll. The struggle between the light above and the darkness below, represents the conflict between good and evil. This presents a rather disturbing, image reinforcing our assumption that darkness is likely to prevail. The sinister aspect of this being, that darkness is the absence of light, and goodness. All through the story we have the impression that s ... NEW his spare time, and then he would go back home to his family and act like the 'perfect son'. The more he suppressed his evil and immoral side the more it grew, just as the more undeveloped Dr Jekyll's evil side was the more the evil Mr Hyde would grow. This leads on to the ways in which the novella shocked its reader and how the morality of Victorian Britain made ...

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