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Some people were claiming that women were morally superior (Rampton). Had these morally superior women been present in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the storyline would have been greatly impacted. The absence of a strong female character in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was influenced by the duality of feminism, the societal views of women, and the threat they pose to masculinity.…

The archetypal theme that good and evil exists in everyone is what I would say as the main theme in the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson with the characters in the story having a good side mainly but have an evil side also. The main character Dr. Jekyll is a good example of this being the case because he is the epitome of being both good and evil. His normal identity Dr. Jekyll has a mostly good side with good intentions and thoughts. His other side,…

Gothic literature of the nineteenth century echoed the repressed fears held by individuals of the ideas introduced in the Enlightenment like an exhale. Tales of mad scientists dominated literature like a mirror into America’s psyche. In the early twentieth century filmmakers coincidentally, or intentionally caught onto the repressed fears individuals held in regards to the advancement of science and the decline of religion, and created a horror film empire on the topic. Upon the development of…

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the plot of this peculiar story has a deeper allegorical meaning. Robert Stevenson’s main theme and message toward the reader is that inside every single person’s soul, there are two opposing, yet coexisting components of human nature within that one person. As the reader becomes conscious of that inside the dual nature there is the ethical, perfectionist Superego which is portrayed as Dr. Jekyll and the greedy, pleasureful Id which is embodied by…

control it. Most characters in this novel have the perception that to survive, one must be inquisitive, which is true for some. Utterson’s usage and control of his curiosity allows him to seek information-without taking it too far, and solving his case. In contrary, Lanyon and Jekyll’s curiosity and becomes too much for them to control, which leads to both their deaths. After all, curiosity does kill the…

These individual personalities can be vastly distinct from one another, exhibiting different speech patterns, facial expressions, gestures, attitudes, and interpersonal styles (Putnam, 1991; Vermetten et al., 2006). In the case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, there is a direct dichotomy that can be categorized into black and white or good and bad. Dr. Jekyll is described to be a distinguished middle-aged man that is both good-looking and tall. Everyone that knows him characterize…

Henry Jekyll opens his statement of the case with a reflection on his life up until the time where he begins attempting to prise apart the two qualities that he believes man is made up of. Jekyll explains he had a better start in life than most other people, “born…to a large fortune [and of] excellent parts”, his family was quite well off in terms of finance and he was born with the foreseeable stature of an honourable gentleman. For the majority of his later life, Henry Jekyll found both his…

only the physical metamorphosis but a mental one as well. But, close psychoanalytic case studies make it evident that he was rather assuming a separate identity. He was suffering from DID and according to the symptom of DID due to the distaste for food he was growing thin and ‘‘dwarfish’’ (2011:…

hobbies, likes or dislikes or what they want to do when they grow up. All people have another side, some are less interesting then the one they show to the world while others have a deep, dark, hidden side that when released can be damaging. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a an example of how having another side, is life changing. This story is about the tragic happenings of a human who needs to keep his emotional needs and desires hidden. The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have…

intentions. These changes often reflect the cultural values of the time period and upon analysis the similarities and differences between the cultures are revealed. The film Mary Reilly (1996) is a recent appropriation of the 1886 classic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stephen Frears, director of Mary Reilly, has cinematically and creatively chosen to omit or carry on certain techniques, characters, plot points and themes from the original text in…