“I was always cursed by my duality of purpose; and as the first side of my penitence faded, the lower part of my body, so long indulgent, so recently chained, began to grunt for license. Not that I dreamed of resurrecting Hyde; . . . no, it was in my own person that I was once again tempted to play with my conscience. . .(Stevenson p. 60) » When Robert Louis Stevenson set out to write his literary masterpiece The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he embarked on a journey through the world of human nature , a difficult task, but he did an excellent job, as the preceding quote demonstrates. Stevenson shows the reader, through numerous specimens of his writings, that human nature is not dichotomous as his times demanded; Four excellent vessels through which the reader can explore human nature, just as Stevenson did, are: Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Edward Hyde, Mr. John Utterson, and Jekyll's opposite, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, Dr. Henry Jekyll is the first and most important ship to embark on Stevenson's journey through humanity. Contrary to the seemingly obvious conclusion one can arrive at when reading Stevenson's classic masterpiece, Dr. Jekyll is the true evil of the book. This is so because he knows that at any moment something could harm him or others, which ultimately happens when he murders an old man and tramples on a young schoolgirl. Dr. Jekyll himself even declares: “I knew well that I risked death; for any drug which so powerfully controlled and undermined the very fortress of identity could, by the slightest qualm of overdose or by the slightest inopportunity at the moment of exposure, completely obliterate that immaterial tabernacle which I intended to change (51). ).” He knows that we must stop using his middle of paper which was revealed to me. I can't dwell on it without a jolt of horror. (47-48).” This shows that until he saw that Hyde was the same as the respectable Dr. Jekyll, he completely believed that men and women were either good or evil, never both, and that it was this knowledge who killed him. Thus, another journey comes to an end, a journey through the nature of man and the dichotomy, or rather lack thereof, in human nature. This journey is led by none other than the famous Strange Case characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Finally, here is a quote that will resonate in the hearts of everyone who reads this article: “God knows; I am carefree; this is my true hour of death, and what follows concerns someone other than me. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal my confession, I bring an end to the life of this unfortunate Henry Jekyll.. (64).”