Dr. Jekyll took a cautious but curious sip of his homemade scientific discovery. As agony coursed through him and his body twisted into a gruesome shape, he became Hyde, a murderous beast bent on destruction. Yes, there was an incentive in creating a monster, but the monster in essence was still Dr. Jekyll, just a deeply hidden demon that he tried to disguise. The characters, Bedford and Cavor, in HG Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon were not so creepy but they share something in common with Doctor Jekyll and Hyde; both are mirror forms of each other. Bedford and Cavor are Wells' creation of characters to represent his critique of society, instead of creating two individual characters he created mirrors, two characters who possess the same tragic flaws and both used as exponents of a corrupt aspect of society. Wells was no novice when it came to creating deep characters, ones who were able to portray the deeply rooted messages contained in his stories. He had known the tricks of the trade to make the characters of Bedford and Cavor not only believable, but also influential. Many people assume that there has to be a great background to a story otherwise it doesn't impact the audience, but the well-known writing resource website Owl at Perdue states that "Character is the most important aspect of fiction." It's the characters that hold the story together; they are the basis for understanding the background and, ultimately, the point of each story. “So characters serve rhetorical purposes, and these purposes must have real-world relevance” (Wood 166). Wood emphasizes that it is the character that brings out the real story and draws it into a world. In The First Men on the Moon......middle of paper......typical characterization. Works Cited McLean, Steven. "'Science is a game that man has just turned on': Science and social organization in the first men on the Moon." HG Wells's early novels: Fantasies of Science. Ed. Palgrave. New York: macmillian, 2009. 117-150. Print.Milstead, John "Bedford Vindicated: A Response to Carlo Pagetti on "the First Men in the Moon" Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 9, no. 1 (March 1982), pp. 103-105. Published by: SF- TH IncArticle" Print. Tanemura, Kenny. “Fiction Writing Basics: Characters.” Owl at Purdue. 2012 1995.Web. Purdue University. .Wood, Tahir. Author characters and author character: the typical in fiction. "Journal of Literary Semantics 40.2 (2011): 159-176. Academic research completed. Web. 10 March 2012." Press.