Jekyll Hyde Analysis and World War I Poet
...edly known to be “wealthy, beloved” (Stevenson 118), also had an itch to bring about his immorality through another physical being, Hyde, which was also himself. Dr. Jekyll used his Hyde persona to live a secret life of depravity. Hyde was completely “pure evil” (108) compared to Jekyll. He goes from injuring an innocent little girl to murdering an old man, seemingly without any conscience. The potential for good and "evil" is within everything with a brain. Naturally, it is human nature to yearn for some sort of evil and it is something that cannot be avoided. One of the most remembered aspects of World War I is the sheer smount of powerful war poetry it produced, especially by British poets from 1914 to 1918. These war years "spawned two generations of war poets" (sternlicht 1), the firstof which touted the patriotic feelings of the time and the second, which...