Garreth Hemmings 01/11/02 How Do The Writers Golding and Stevenson Explore The Theme Of Good and Evil Within Man? Refer to 'Lord of the Flies' and 'The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' The themes of good and evil are used constantly throughout both of the books but they are portrayed in different ways by the two authors. As the authors wrote each of the books in different time periods this greatly affects the …showed first 75 words of 2327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2327 total…not conclusive in either book it is evil that seems to dominate but in the end it is defeated albeit in Jekyll case by his own sacrifice. Is this the case in today's society, we are fighting that battle as a society and also within ourselves, evil seems to have the upper hand on many occasions, we will have to wait to see the outcome and what sacrifices we will have to make to succeed.