A trustworthy London specialist and, alongside Utterson, some time ago one of Jekyll's nearest companions. As an encapsulation of logic, realism, and doubt, Lanyon serves a thwart (a character whose state of mind or feelings stand out from, and in this way light up, those of another character) for Jekyll, who grasps mystery. His demise speaks to the more broad triumph of supernaturalism over realism in Dr. Jekyll and Mr.…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a simple narrative, straightforward in its execution but complicated in its implications. Mr. Hyde is a complex metaphor, standing in for the dark underbelly of 19th century society. Thomas C. Foster, thankfully, lays out ways in which this metaphor is expressed in his How To Read Literature Like A Professor - including the roles of physical deformity, sexual metaphors, and geography.…
What happens when one is able to live in any way they wish? No longer restrained by the expectation of society or the moral code of the line of justification transforms into gray. The freedom that comes from this sinful outlook brings out the worse in one. While on the surface is a clean countenance brimming underneath is a disturbing persona of contradictions. Victorian society itself while seemingly pleasant and pleasing to the eye was brimming with an underworld of carnality.…
Context: As Dr. Jekyll’s situation becomes progressively worse in regards to Mr. Hyde. He feels as though he is slowly losing himself the original evil that is inside of him. At this point in the story, Dr. Jekyll has almost completely lost himself to his evil inclinations although he still clings to his good will.…
The Poem was written with the approach from the fictional novel of the split-personalities of ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. The allusion to ‘Jekyll’ and ‘Hyde’ provided a reference point and context to the Poem. The inspiration of the Poem originated from the British grime artist Santan Dave's ‘JKL + HYD' single. In the single, he unveils the vulgar past experiences of his ‘dirty life', where he ‘lost every single man inside' of his ‘life'. Nonetheless, the constant world of fear forces him to mature psychologically at a significantly faster rate ‘beyond' his biological tender ‘age of 17'.…
On a foggy night with the moon shining pale and bright in the empty sky, there was not a person to be seen except for two men. The street was tranquil and nice, but something horrific took place here. This was a scene from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story takes place in London in the early 1800’s; it starts with two men, Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield, walking down the street when they come across a door. Mr. Enfield recalls an account of something that had happened there.…
Narrative perspective, also called “point of sight”, is the angle, postion and viewpoint of the narrator applied to observe and narrate stories. (邵萍萍, 廖小云 ) It is widely used in the modern narrative works cause it can helps to arouse interest, conflict and suspense, so choosing different perspectives can make differential effects. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consists of nine chapters, and each chapter has a brief subtitle to summarize the main plots. In the first seven parts, Stevenson chooses to describe the suspenseful incidents in third person, from the angel of Utterson, Enfield, Lanyon and Poole, acting out the evils of Hyde and his mysterious identity.…
Jekyll and Hyde story is considered as a Gothic novel because of its strange and mysterious theme that evidently presented by the sign of supernatural along the story. The definition of gothic is pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay (Oxford Dictionary, 2009). In this story, it discusses about the oddities investigation of Hyde’s strange incident since the first chapter. It illustrates many changing tones and moods about gothic in the story, such as contrast of the events and settings. Along the story, it contains about scientific experiment, but the transformation is mainly caused by demonic influence.…
In this essay I will be looking at the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson in January 1886. In this novella a well-respected Dr Jekyll struggles with his dual nature and the undesirable reputation of his pleasures in an upper-class Victorian society. I will explore the ways that the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, presents different types of power and its effect over man. I will compare this text to themes of power in poems such as Medusa, My Last Duchess and Hitcher. The first poem Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy shows the cause an outburst of range as anger has power over any sense of morality that that person may have.…
“Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It 's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” The quote by Eric Burdon can be put into constant play in the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. With a strong sense of mystery and danger, the theme of good and evil fits perfectly into Dr. Henry Jekyll’s personality.…
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is clearly and examination of the duality of human nature. This essay analyse’s the duality of the human beings Dr Jekyll supposes that within each individual there are two sides, the favourable and corrupt, struggling to be in control. Dr Jekyll constituted hyde due to the way his senses was more corrupt, it was described as an evil side furious to be in authority. Dr Jekyll stated that the ingredients for his potion be ticular salt, compounds and elements, “I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together in the glass, and when the ebullition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.”.…
What could make a virtuous individual want to have an immoral side ? To begin, “doubles” are shown in both the Victorian novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and contemporary film Fight Club. This theme of doubles is shown in both novel and film even though there is a prolonged difference from one another. In both the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the film Fight Club both show similarities in specific ways and differences in others. With similarities having to do with a father figure in both stories.…
The theme of doubling was a common literary device in the late Victorian literature and still is. Through the figure of the double the author can show different facets of his main characters to make his novel more complex on a psychological level. In the Victorian period, identity was an important topic due to the fact that people had problems to know and accept their own identity and to find themselves. That is why especially misguided and covered identities became significant in this novel. The authors of this period used this identity theme in an imaginative way since usually the villains were depicted as a darker and unmoral human being.…
Science Fiction and Science Fiction in Jekyll and Hyde There are elements in the story of Jekyll and Hyde that make it appear to be both science fiction and fiction about science. The novella is based on an occurrence that stems from science, however is not probable in the world, and therefore it must be looked at as science fiction. The ability for a drug to morph someone into a completely different person is otherworldly, and must be thought of as an element of science. The story is told in third person- creating an outside narrator, although we see the figure of the lonely scientist in Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll not only mentally furthers himself from society, but at times (when he becomes Mr. Hyde) is completely absent from society; “…
Robert Lewis Stevenson discusses the dual nature of human beings in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He is trying to show the two sides: evil and good, that every person has, and how they try to overcome their evil side. Jekyll wants an opportunity to reveal his evil side without disrupting his respectable image, so he creates Hyde. He is able to explore new avenues in science, which conventional scientists, such as Lanyon cannot even imagine. I argue that human beings do have a dual nature; people are concerned about their reputation rather than being themselves.…