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Do you ever wonder if a person is who they claim to be ? Some people are good and some are evil but it’s up to you to believe what you think . Dr.jekyll and mr.hyde are both the same person but different personalities , one claims to be fully evil and the other claims he's good . The truest side in Dr jekyll is Mr Hyde . Ironically , when dr.jekyll was younger he wasn’t such a good person , this may have caused him to have another personality which is hyde . “ my mind misgives me he is deep…

An alter ego is defined in two ways, as an alternative personality to the current figure, or as a close friend who thinks and feels similarly to them. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego, Mr. Hyde is a complete opposite of Jekyll, yet at the same time a close companion of him. Their relationship is a complex one that is ever-changing as the book progresses. Jekyll uses his counterpart of Hyde as a temporary escape to absolve himself of…

The book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is mysterious story written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The plot of the story, focusing on the disturbingly unpleasant Mr. Hyde and the good guy Dr. Jekyll, tells of the process of a normal person transforming, at the sip of a potion, into a villainous alter ego. This book is a classic work of literature and is highly representative of human nature. Also, this novel uses much symbolism to be later discussed. The theme and purpose of this book…

Bennett and Royle discuss how many short stories revolve around the main character having an epiphany (54). In Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll experiences the struggle between good and evil that occurs in every person and the devastating effects it can have when evil overcomes good. In the story, Dr. Jekyll has the epiphany the evil personality of Mr. Hyde was overcoming the good in Dr. Jekyll. The quote illustrates the idea the choice Dr. Jekyll makes when…

As a result, Lexy truly began to plunge headfirst into complete madness. The frequencies through which the inherents could interact with Mr. Jones on this plane of existence could be heard only by Jones and Lexy, who was the only human who could hear these attempted interactions. However, what Jones knew and understood as communication from home was foreign and unsettling to Lexy. This misunderstanding drove Lexy into the insanity that gripped every fiber of his being. Even commercials on…

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, referenced Carl Jung’s theories and played with the idea of what made someone good and another evil through characters and events of the book. Firstly, Carl Jung, a Swedish psychologist, believed in archetypes of humans, especially the shadow archetype. The shadow archetype, according to Carl Jung, is one’s darker side and is filled with impulses, darker intentions, and others of the like. Additionally, Carl Jung stated…

Explore how the theme of duality is explored in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Duality is key to Stevenson’s message about the divide in human nature. He explores this through highlighting hypocrisy in Victorian society, using terror imagery to reflect the true divide in human nature. Stevenson also explores the idea that the evil in human nature can never be separated and so it will forever be attached to the good in us. Stevenson exposes hypocrisy in the Victorian society to strengthen his message about…

Human nature is and has always been the struggle between good and bad. In the gothic novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson the concepts of humanity as dual in nature, and the importance of reputation are used to create tension between the good Dr. Jekyll and the revel Mr. Hyde. While at the same time representing the suppression of the Victorian time period. “Man is not truly one, but truely two.” The importance of duality in the novel The Strange Case of…

In the story, “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, the element of moral ambiguity appears through Dr. Jekyll and his experimentations. Dr. Jekyll lives in an era known as the Victorian Era, in which there are many strict rules and social constraints. By the demands that he should be good all the time, Dr. Jekyll creates a potion to separate his personalities. The separation creates Mr. Hyde, his alter ego, who represents the darker side of Dr. Jekyll,…

Mr. Hyde immensely has a stronger personality than Dr. Jekyll due to after drinking the potion that will return him to his original appearance and character as Dr. Jekyll, each time he takes the potion to remove Edward Hyde, he worsens. Hence, Mr. Hyde has committed violate crimes before and after drinking the potion Dr. Jekyll had developed that did not gave him to have absolute to control his dark side. In the novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll has a struggle…