Part one of term paper
The Gothic theory of the double is both reductive and powerful. It assumes that we are all playing a role in life; that a raving beast waits within for the chains to loosen or snap. Doubles stories seem to proliferate when people sense an unnegotiable divide between the true self and society, between nature and culture. (Edmunson 48) Such dua ...

Part two of term paper
... splitting a personality between accepted roles. In this case, the roles are split between appropriate and inappropriate masculine behavior and are issustrated through the characterizations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. “Jekyll is an apparently respectable man”, contends Calder (ii), “who contains within him a potential for profound wickedness, released in the shape of Mr. Hyde”. According to Calder (ii) “AJ Symonds, a friend of Robert Stevenson, and many others found thi ...