“I was still cursed by my duality of purpose; and as the first nervousness of my penance wore off, the lower part of me, so long indulged, so recently shackled, began to growl for leave. Not that I dreamed of resurrecting Hyde; . . . no, it is in my person that I once again had the temptation to joke with my conscience. . .(Stevenson p. 60)” When Robert Louis Stevenson began 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, no easy task, but he did an excellent job , as demonstrated by the previous quote. Stevenson shows the reader through numerous examples of his writings that human nature is not dichotomous as his time dictated; four excellent tools through which the reader can explore human nature, just as Stevenson did, are as follows: Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Edward Hyde, Mr. John Utterson, and Jekyll's exact opposite, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, the doctor. Henry Jekyll is the first and most important vessel to embark on Stevenson's journey through humanity. Contrary to the seemingly obvious conclusion one might come to when reading Stevenson's classic masterpiece, Dr. Jekyll is the true evil of the book. This is because he knows that at any moment something could cause harm to him or others, which eventually happens when he kills an old man and tramples on a young schoolgirl. Doctor Jekyll himself even states “I knew well that I was in danger of death; for any drug that so powerfully controlled and shook the very fortress of identity could, with the slightest qualm of overdose or at least inexpediency at the time of administration, completely obliterate that immaterial tabernacle which I hoped would change (51).” He knows he should stop using h...... middle of paper ......it has been revealed to me... I cannot... dwell on this without a gasp of horror. (47-48).” This shows that until he saw that Hyde was equal to the respectable Dr. Jekyll, he completely believed that men and women were either good or bad, never both, and that it was this knowledge that killed him. a journey through the nature of man, and the dichotomy, or rather the lack thereof, in human nature. This journey is brought to you by none other than the characters from the acclaimed Strange Case, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. To conclude, here is a quote that will resonate in the hearts of everyone reading this article: “God knows; I'm distracted; this is my true hour of death, and what follows concerns another besides me. Here then, as I lay down my pen and proceed to seal my confession, I put an end to the life of that unfortunate Henry Jekyll. (64).”