In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the reoccurring motif of doors is apparent in the first chapters, but what is the true implication of these entrances? These openings work as a crossing between the good and evil sides of man; showing the duality in which man was created from and still live by today. The doors are the passage into extreme opposites; good vs. evil, heaven vs. hell, benevolence vs. malevolence. On one side lives the expected, the safe, while the opposite imposes dark intentions and dangerously powerful ideas. Each side posses the power to succeed, yet the evil prevails because of lack of judgment and hesitance. The vast differences of these sides split the emotions of man clear down the middle, which the doors a mean of entrance into something sinister or respectable.
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