Since the beginning of time, humans have questioned the validity of man's inherent duality. Are humans born with both pure goodness and pure evil, or is the latter cultivated? Or is man simply an existence embodied in both? In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a man, a scientist named Henry Jekyll, concludes that all men are both good and bad. Through his own understanding of human nature, Henry Jekyll transforms and reveals himself to become and display the characteristics of both the protagonist and antagonist of the story. Born sometime in the 1800s, Henry Jekyll is first introduced at the age of fifty. He grows up to be a tall, handsome and educated man. Don't fallDr. Jekyll reflects on the “hard law of life” (Stevenson 42) which is governed by religion. Since religion always calls man to pure intentions and goodness, even far from atrocious pleasures, Doctor Jekyll wants to eliminate the evil within him to have a completely pure soul. At first he tries to hide the other side of himself, but now, in his defense, the time has come to indulge in his pleasures. His reasoning is to deepen his knowledge or free himself from pain and suffering (Stevenson 42). With this decision, he now begins to deviate from his respectable image in society and begins to display Hyde's attributes as a different man, the original man himself, Doctor Jekyll admits that he enjoys Hyde's crude actions as pleasures. Initially, he presents his Hyde decision as a scientific experiment and allows himself to be freed from social pressure; however, he becomes hypocritical due to materialism and pride. He soon admits that the actions became monstrous in Hyde's hands and he knew that Hyde would soon get the better of himself. He realizes that he created another man or identity that he could not control. Therefore he concludes, “Man is not truly one, but truly two” (Stevenson 43). The strange case is that the novel never gives Hyde's point of view, but always from the good doctor's point of view. Hyde has no conscience of his own; rather, it is that of the doctor. It is evident that Dr. Jekyll embraces Hyde, because he refers to himself as "I" in the body of