"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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 ways in which they show these themes. Through this essay I aim to show how each of the authors explore the good and evil within man, then compare and contrast the way in which they present their ideas and finally summarise the story styles in the conclusion.
The answer to the above question, how do the writers explore the themes of good and evil within man is of course different with each author. Golding uses lots of symbolism, everything connected with the book is symbolising something. Stevenson however uses more basic methods; he shows evil by the disfiguration of Mr Hyde and the bubbling drink he uses character definition to describe good and evil. …