Duality of the soul in Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeIn real life, the duality of the soul of man is studied and analyzed as a possibility. People try to study this facet of human behavior and spend a lot of time trying to determine how a split personality can affect people. Today's films and literature deal with the possibility of a good and evil twin residing in the same body, sometimes to varying degrees. This concept first gained great importance in the work of fiction written by Robert Lewis Stevenson in The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This story, first published in 1886, uses the concept of duality of the soul through the example of one Henry Jekyll, showing in many ways what can and does happen when Jekyll decides to experience the aspect of his evil side and to realize it as a character. by Edward Hyde. When the evil Edward Hyde commits deadly sins far beyond the comprehension of what Henry Jekyll's evil side could imagine, he realizes that his good side has been lost to evil and he tries , as he can, of never being able to find himself again. The character of Dr. Jekyll is portrayed as the epitome of respectability while Edward Hyde is the opposite of any form of respectability in the 19th century. The definition of respectability in Jekyll's time meant propriety for decency, the rulers of the earth, dull and full of righteousness in the middle of a paper ...... there only terms. Works cited and consulted: Camus, Albert. “The Myth of Sisyphus”. Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. Ed. G. Lee Bowie, Meredith W. Michaels and Robert C. Solomon. 4th ed. Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. 45-49. Charyn, Jerome. “Who is Hyde?” Afterword: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bantam Books. Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1981. 105-114. Mighall, Dr. Robert. A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping the Nightmares of History. Oxford University Press, 1999. 166-209. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bantam Books. Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.., 1981.