The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or The Time Machine: Which is better?
Both The Time Machine, by H.G.Wells, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, are great books but, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is better to read. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tells a story about Dr. Jekyll and his lawyer, Mr. Utterson. In the story, Dr. Jekyll finds out a way to transform himself into another person, one that is his bad side, Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a suspect in a murder case and Mr. Utterson is trying to figure out who Hyde is, all while Dr. Jekyll is fighting between his good and bad personalities and trying not to get caught. There are three main reasons why The Strange Case of …show more content…
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is better than The Time Machine is because it is more interesting and attention grabbing. In The Time Machine the build up is really slow. The only thing that the story focuses on is the fact that the Time Traveller goes to the future and doesn’t like how undeveloped it is. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the story is much more interesting and it has better development. The characters have a clear conflict and it has a more interesting plot because they are trying to figure out who murdered Sir Danvers Carew and then they try to figure out who Mr. Hyde is when they figure out that he killed him. In the novel it states, “This last, however was not so easy of accomplishment; for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars- even the master of the servant-maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed and the few who could describe him differed widely, as common observers will” (Stevenson 31). This shows that Mr. Utterson and the other characters were trying to figure out who Mr. Hyde …show more content…
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is better than The Time Machine is because The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is easier to understand than The Time Machine. The Time Machine has a lot of outdated vocabulary and it is hard to keep track about what is going on in the book when the reader doesn’t know what any of the words mean. Even if the reader looks up the definitions for all of the words it makes the book unenjoyable. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the wording is still sometimes hard to understand but it has just the right amount of challenging words so that the reader can learn something new but isn’t confused the whole time. On page 23 it states, “Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety” (Stevenson 23). This shows that the vocabulary used in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is challenging but makes the reader learn a good amount of new words that aren’t too
Both The Time Machine, by H.G.Wells, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, are great books but, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is better to read. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tells a story about Dr. Jekyll and his lawyer, Mr. Utterson. In the story, Dr. Jekyll finds out a way to transform himself into another person, one that is his bad side, Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a suspect in a murder case and Mr. Utterson is trying to figure out who Hyde is, all while Dr. Jekyll is fighting between his good and bad personalities and trying not to get caught. There are three main reasons why The Strange Case of …show more content…
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is better than The Time Machine is because it is more interesting and attention grabbing. In The Time Machine the build up is really slow. The only thing that the story focuses on is the fact that the Time Traveller goes to the future and doesn’t like how undeveloped it is. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the story is much more interesting and it has better development. The characters have a clear conflict and it has a more interesting plot because they are trying to figure out who murdered Sir Danvers Carew and then they try to figure out who Mr. Hyde is when they figure out that he killed him. In the novel it states, “This last, however was not so easy of accomplishment; for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars- even the master of the servant-maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed and the few who could describe him differed widely, as common observers will” (Stevenson 31). This shows that Mr. Utterson and the other characters were trying to figure out who Mr. Hyde …show more content…
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is better than The Time Machine is because The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is easier to understand than The Time Machine. The Time Machine has a lot of outdated vocabulary and it is hard to keep track about what is going on in the book when the reader doesn’t know what any of the words mean. Even if the reader looks up the definitions for all of the words it makes the book unenjoyable. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the wording is still sometimes hard to understand but it has just the right amount of challenging words so that the reader can learn something new but isn’t confused the whole time. On page 23 it states, “Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety” (Stevenson 23). This shows that the vocabulary used in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is challenging but makes the reader learn a good amount of new words that aren’t too