Jekyll and Hyde

In the 1880’s, Robert Louis Stevenson created the forever popular novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The story isn’t simply about a man with two sides nor is it about a man taking a potion to be bad. This is a story that can look as though it is as simple as good vs. evil but runs to the depths of man vs. man and self vs. self. The well …

…well which motivates the experiments with Mr. Hyde. Later in the book, Utterson’s full name is revealed. Gabriel John Utterson, which holds significance in itself. Gabriel, one of the four archangels given the roll of divine messenger and John which comes about several times in the New Testament as John the Baptist and John who wrote the Revelations. Utterson is the teller of truth and a messenger which is his task from the beginning.