The mind is a powerful tool that could make an individual partake in evil acts. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novella that portrays how one man’s mind becomes entranced in good and evil. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses symbolic figures such as the door while using themes of good vs evil and the deceptive appearances of Jekyll and Hyde. The door, in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, withholds Dr. Jekyll’s secrets while hiding his evil doings. In the critical essay, Campbell described the door as, “ Located midway between the front door of the house ‘which wore a great air of wealth and comfort,’ and the battered back door ‘round the corner’ which is Hyde’s entrance, the red door is the entrance to the room where Jekyll’s ‘pleasures …show more content…
In the critical essay, the author explains, “ Utterson first asks to ‘let me see your face’... Utterson’s query is ironic, and his statement that he will now ‘know’ Hyde somewhat absurd. In the dualistic world of Jekyll and Hyde nothing can be known for sure, appearances being often misleading” (Fraustino 2). Utterson asking Hyde to view his face clearly presents irony as a feature of a physical appearance does not express the true personality of a character. The dual personalities make physical appearance hard to depict because there is always an unknown. Hyde’s appearance is portrayed as scary and evil but can be viewed differently because he is presents more than one personality such as Jekyll’s. Hyde’s actions explain his physical appearance. Also, appearance is presented when the author states, “ Utterson’s obsession derives from his assumption that reality can be known by its outward form, an assumption perhaps rooted in his belief in the credibility of social appearances” (Fraustino 2). Appearances are often assumed because of their outward form and the characteristics it displays. Social appearances are deceiving because society makes them out to be more important than they should be. Jekyll and Hyde appearances are deceiving because they present dual