Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
PLEASE NOTE: This post contains a major spoiler for a classic piece of literature. If you haven't read said work and intend to do so, feel free to stop reading at any time. First of all, allow me to apologize for the delay between my previous post and this one. I recently started a new job and have been quite busy. I've had the title of this post in my head for a while. I'm sure most of us have heard of the title characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's famous nineteenth-century novella. Though I've never actually read said work in its entirety, I'm familiar with its premise. The novella, entitled in full Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , takes place in Victorian London and tells the tale of two men - the kind scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll and the violent, evil Mr. Edward Hyde. The reader eventually comes to learn that Jekyll and Hyde are in fact two different personas of the same individual. I find that the dichotomy between the two is an appropriate metap...