Part one of term paper
The Dominion of Evil The term “Jekyll and Hyde”, now a part of our common language, can be found in most dictionaries. Random dictionary definitions of “Jekyll and Hyde” include: 1) “One who has quasi-schizophrenic, alternating phases of pleasantness an unpleasantness.” 2) “A person having a split personality, one side of which ...

Part two of term paper
... to be pronounced Je (French word for “I”) Kill (Je-Kill = I kill), as an indication that the doctor wanted to isolate the evil portion of himself, appropriately named “Hyde,” meaning low and vulgar hide or flesh which must hide from civilization. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he portrayed man’s evil nature as a portion of his total makeup, and showed that the evil portion will often express itself more forcefully and powerfully than do the other aspe ...