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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson uses the mood to dictate the connotation the audience has for a character; for instance, how Stevenson associates impurity with Mr. Hyde, as opposed to the upper-class stature of Dr. Jekyll. In the chapter "Search For Hyde", during Utterson's first confrontation with Hyde, Hyde gives him his address located in Soho, which is described as, "The dismal quarter of Soho . . . a district of some city…

The Strange Cases of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Fiction and Film Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and the film adaptation, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003), directed by Maurice Phillips, are accounts of the same story but told differently. Stevenson’s novella, as well as Phillips’ film version, follows a respected English physician and scientist named Dr. Henry Jekyll as he secretly struggles to suppress his dark side, and the experiments he…

When Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Victorians saw a glimpse of these advancements and behaviors. Dr. Jekyll, a promising doctor, believes he is making medical strides and therefore, improving the world with his medicine. However, the deeper readers get into the story, they begin to see that Dr. Jekyll is tormented by his discovery and the “assistant” that helps him discover it. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sparks a…

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In every single person there is some good and there is some evil. There is the same amount of each in everyone but the way the person handles their feelings shows whether the person lets the evil or the good take over. In the novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson the theme of a person having good and evil and that the person struggles with these two forces is very evident. The evil is evident in Mr. Hyde when he commits 2 different murders on an old man and…

some believe every individual has a “wicked” person trapped inside just waiting to be released. For some, this may be right, but it can also just be another bad act of a person, making it as an excuse for their bad choices. In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 discovers a scientific experiment that releases the evil side of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a well known physician who drinks a potion that transforms him into a detestable looking…

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. The most basic, and in fact textual,…

known as a ‘dark side’, but not all of them show it. Instead they try to hide it. In Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew uses face paint as basically a mask to make him more mean-looking when he’s hunting with his crew to hide his ‘dark side’. In Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll makes a potion that turns him into Mr. Hyde to cover Dr. Jekyll’s ‘dark side’. Last of all, in The Catcher in the Rye, main character Holden Caulfield, carries a red hunting hat everywhere he goes to…

Throughout chapter 8 of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson employs an external narrative voice and dialogue, in order to describe the weather of London, analyse themes of the novella, and explore the fears of people living in London, during the 1800s. Throughout the chapter, the weather is dark and wild, much like the events that are yet to come in the novella. The door of the cabinet in which Hyde is hiding explores themes of class division, while the exploiting…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s notorious novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is a narrative about the duality of human nature. It has become a cultural phenomenon, known even to those who have never read the book nor seen any of the adaptations. On the surface, the work seems to explore the struggle of good versus evil that occurs within every man. But, looking at the narrative from a slightly different perspective, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can be read as a story…