Dr. Jekyll & Charlie Sheen: Good or Evil?

      Yeah, Charlie Sheen; that's who I chose to compare Dr. Jekyll to. Most people have heard the stories from about a year ago. The producer of Sheen's new show actually called Charlie a "'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' sort of guy." I'm not sure the producer understood just how good that comparison was. Well, we talked about the connection between the potion  Jekyll created and a drug addiction, so who better to compare him to than Charlie Sheen? I think that he really is the modern day Jekyll, going on the assumption that what he says is honest and true for the sake of this comparison. "It was cringeable, yeah. Because I didn't recognize parts of who that guy was. I mean, the verbiage, you know, him looking like a real insane wordsmith was fine, but it was -- it was a trip down."With his coming back to Hollywood for his new show, people are starting to wonder whether or not he's a "volcano waiting to erupt" or how we could put it in AP English class, whether or not he's going through the phase Jekyll went through of trying not to let Hyde take over. 
     Now, I'm not ready to admit that Charlie Sheen is evil. He had (or has) a serious drug problem. Is that his fault? I'd say yes. Was Jekyll's addiction problem his fault? I would say yes to that, too. I consider both men both evil and good, not purely one or the other. I don't think Charlie Sheen not on drugs is a good man and I don't think that Dr. Jekyll is a good man. So focussing in on the literature now...  Dr. Jekyll is supposed to represent good and Mr. Hyde evil. However, how can anyone possibly see Jekyll as good when Mr. Hyde was born from him? Hyde is a part of Jekyll that comes out and blocks the good in Jekyll. 
     The reason that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is in this unit on monsters inside us is that, well, Mr. Hyde is the monster in Dr. Jekyll, Jekyll just learned of a way to let him out. Many people chose to contain their monsters, which is why Dr. Jekyll appears so good and average to his friends before he lets Mr. Hyde out.
     Mr. Hyde could not exist without Dr. Jekyll and his curiosity for "forbidden knowledge" and therefore, Dr. Jekyll does not represent good and Mr. Hyde evil. Dr. Jekyll represents humanity and Mr. Hyde represents humanity absent of goodness and judgement. It ties very closely to how drugs affect some people, who are still humans, just absent of some of their morals and judgement.