#1 Online Review

(1) - This literary review is about the dualism that's evident in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It portrays how religion and philosphy are key factors in the novel. Most religions leave good and evil seperate, but the dualistic religion invlolves the two opposite ideas together as one. God can tolerate evil in a dualistic religion. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the two opposite components of a completely normal man. In the philosophy aspect, there are two opposites as well; the mind-body-spirit side, and the substance-matter side. Dualistic philosophy is the sense that the soul is seperate from the body, but Stevenson messes with the traditional view by showing that the mind and soul change when the body does and vice versa. In my opinion, this literary review is very accurate. I believe that Jekyll and Hyde can't live without one another. It is portraying how society can't have just one and not the other, in relation to good/evil and mind/body.