Reading all these books, listening to all these records and watching all these films, you pick up on a ton of trends and common threads between generations, genres and individual works.A week ago I read "Candide," which is a short story about a man who deals with the cruelty of mankind and the ideas of human nature, fate and behavior.
In "Strange Case ..." we are confronted with the same sort of themes, most notably the duality of man. As we saw in "Candide," humans seem to have the capability of making their own decisions and often times we are met with evil, destruction, pain and ill intentions. This is personified in the body of Dr. Henry Jekyll as he personally struggles with his inner animal and desires only the things that agree with the flesh without conscious.
Funny note: Visiting Edinburgh, I visited the pub of the man who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's story.
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