The movie Mary Reilly and the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are similar in many ways, but just like any other movie and book pair, they are also very different in many ways. There are different point of views and some details may stray away from each other. I found that when watching the movie, the book and movie matched up almost perfect until the very end when Hyde/Jekyll died.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a very well-known novella that starts out with two separate people with different personalities. The story is mostly told from the view point of Mr. Utterson, an old friend of Jekyll and a lawyer. Utterson sees a strange man trample a girl at a crossroad in the night. The man that trampled the girl turned out to be …show more content…
Utterson believes that Dr. Jekyll is being blackmailed by the man that he saw trample the girl at the night of the crossroads. The on, the book follows Utterson as he tries to uncover why might Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde be involved with each other since they are such different people. Going deeper into the book, turns out Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. For Jekyll and Hyde to become the same person, Jekyll transforms into him when he drinks one of his special potions. The book explores the idea of two extremes of temperature, personality and the good and evil of a person. Jekyll is the “good version” and Hyde is the “evil”. In other words, Jekyll is the angel on his shoulder and Hyde is the devil.
On the other hand, the movie Mary Reilly tells almost the exact story of The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde except it told from the point of view of Dr. Jekyll’s house maid,
Mary Reilly. The movie puts focus on the fact that Jekyll/Hyde suffers from severe mental illness. One scene stuck out to me in the movie was when Jekyll/Hyde broke glass in his hand in front of Mary Reilly. I think he did this just to make her feel the pain that he was
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a very well-known novella that starts out with two separate people with different personalities. The story is mostly told from the view point of Mr. Utterson, an old friend of Jekyll and a lawyer. Utterson sees a strange man trample a girl at a crossroad in the night. The man that trampled the girl turned out to be …show more content…
Utterson believes that Dr. Jekyll is being blackmailed by the man that he saw trample the girl at the night of the crossroads. The on, the book follows Utterson as he tries to uncover why might Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde be involved with each other since they are such different people. Going deeper into the book, turns out Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. For Jekyll and Hyde to become the same person, Jekyll transforms into him when he drinks one of his special potions. The book explores the idea of two extremes of temperature, personality and the good and evil of a person. Jekyll is the “good version” and Hyde is the “evil”. In other words, Jekyll is the angel on his shoulder and Hyde is the devil.
On the other hand, the movie Mary Reilly tells almost the exact story of The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde except it told from the point of view of Dr. Jekyll’s house maid,
Mary Reilly. The movie puts focus on the fact that Jekyll/Hyde suffers from severe mental illness. One scene stuck out to me in the movie was when Jekyll/Hyde broke glass in his hand in front of Mary Reilly. I think he did this just to make her feel the pain that he was