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Archetypes In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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Good and Evil
In many stories good overpowers evil to save lives. The concept of good and evil has always been around. In Robert Stevenson's mystery novella, Dr.Jekyll Mr. Hyde, good and evil are reflected by archetypes to describe the way people act or show emotions. The use of different colors can represent many things. Mr. Utterson and Mr. Poole are about to head out to find what is going on with Dr. Jekyll. While they both sit discussing the matter “ It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had titled her” (Stevenson 36). This quote uses cold, wild, and pale (moon) those are all archetypes of death, loneliness, and evil. This was the night that Jekyll/ Hyde died. Archetypes

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