Question

How does this passage develop the theme "Evil can never truly hide itself”?

Dr. Jekyll tells the men to go away before slamming the window closed.
Dr. Jekyll closes the window and makes the men nervous by following them home.
Utterson and Enfield are horrified when they see Jekyll’s transformation.
Utterson and Enfield are ashamed that they did not stay to help Dr. Jekyll.

Answer 1

The above passage is taken from a gothic novel ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson. This passage develops the theme "Evil can never truly hide itself” when Utterson and Enfield are horrified when they see Jekyll’s transformation”. Jekyll believed that man does not have one side ‘but truly two’. He asserts that human soul struggling for mastery is a battleground for a “fiend” and an “angel”. Therefore, it can be separated by bringing the dark side into being.