In Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, describe the theme of good versus evil and how it relates to us as people in today's society.

The
theme of good and evil in Stevenon's story relates to us today because there exists the eternal
human dichotomy between good influences and evil influences, good impulses and evil impulses,
good choices and acts and evil (or just bad) choices and acts. So whether today or the 19th
century or post-2012, a story exploring the ultimate consequences of this dichotomy, and the
dichotomy driven choices and actions, is always relevant.

The theme of good
versus evil is explored in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde through the dual
personas of Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll's friend, Dr. Lanyon, split ways with Jekyll long before the time
of the story because he disapproved of Jekyll's "unscientific" experiments:

"But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too
fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; .... I see and I have seen devilish little
of the man. Such unscientific balderdash, ... would have estranged...