Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Theme Essay

In “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” I found three themes, judging people by their looks is wrong, friends can bring out the best in us, and it is human nature to try and take the easy way out.
One of the main themes is “judging people by their looks is wrong.” We find this in the book when Mr. Enfield describes Mr. Hyde “ I never saw a man I so disliked, yet I scarcely know why.” Everyone seems to hate Mr. Hyde even though they don’t know anything about him, all they know is that he looks deformed. A connection to real life is that people judge others by looks such as skin colour or facial features. Instead, we should get to know people then think about based on their personality. A piece of I found is from and old television show called “Twilight Zone,” the episode “Eye of the beholder”
The next theme I found is “friends can bring out the best in us”. This theme shows up in the book when Dr. Jekyll wants to get rid of Mr. Hyde because his friends inspired him to be more social, at one point Dr. Jekyll spends a lot of time with his friends in order to keep from turning into Mr. Hyde. A connection to real life is that people often act differently when they are around friends than with other people.
Jekyll creates the drug that turns him into Mr. Hyde to escape his life and to be different. A connection to real life is when people go through hard times, they sometimes turn to drugs to drown their problem. Instead, people should face their problems and get help from other people. When people get help, they feel more comfortable with being themselves. But in a world where it is so easy to get drugs, it can sometimes seem like the easiest thing to do, but when people take the easy way, more problems can come up. A piece of art I found is a poem by Robert Frost called “The Road Not