Innocence is a trap. It is strangled by ideals of perfection and stifles the desire for curiosity. Goodness waits and evil is poisonous. However, good and evil reside even in the most innocent people. Both are harmful and pestilential to easily corrupt targeted souls with sinister actions. Both amount to uncontrollable factors. The good tends to lust after the sensations of evil since it belittles its own purity. In the swinging novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, goodness was trapped by evil, just as Jekyll was trapped in the role of Hyde. Jekyll's pure spirituality desired the holy wealth of evil and all its misdeeds. His laboratory experiments revealed his desire to experience the sensation of evil without actually being evil. His laboratory experiments allowed him to discover a way to escape. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fought the battle between good and evil, proving the apparent strengths and weaknesses that turned two souls into one corpse. Naturally, the body fights the tensions of good and evil by justifying right from wrong. The body allows itself to be convinced by one side but ends up being conquered by the other. It is a constant battle of pain and pleasure: a constant desire from imperfection to perfection. Dr. Jekyll wanted evil to be completely separated from his goodness. Hyde was not considered human. He was a creation that only possessed life when Jekyll self-medicated as a form of liberation. “Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde are not one person but two, not a single individual composed as a common humanity of traits both good and evil, one or the other ascendant at any given time” (Sanderson). As two separate souls inhabited one body, the conflict was middle of paper......12&hid=119&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxpd mU%3d#db=lfh&AN=103331MSW23949850001393>. Kerr, Calum A. “Literary Contexts in Novels: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” » Literary reference center. Great Neck Publishing, nd Web. January 22, 2014.detail?vid=5&sid=3444e551-d8e2-4bca-a03f-8eded569a9f6%40sessionmgr110&hid=4104&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxp dmU%3d#db=lfh&AN=23177120>. Sanderson, Stewart F. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Overview." Gale Literary Resources. Np, and Web. January 22, 2014.i.do?id=GALE%7CH1420007716&v=2.1&u=cinn88186&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w&asid=726cdbcace38570e9a908f2902008de3>.Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories. Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association, 1991. Print.