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main themes in a story are a reflection of the social class and the beliefs of the society that the author lived in when writing it. Robert Louis Stevenson explores the idea of the duality of mankind, ethics and morality in his novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson explores the idea of the internal struggle every man has between good and evil and the inclination man has for immoral behaviour. It also conveys to the readers the importance of reputation and class…

in can determine their true nature. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Susan Hill’s “The Woman in Black,” and Friedrich Durrenmatt’s “The Visit,” each piece has its own style but the underlying characteristics add up to the same types of themes in the pieces that are similar in their nature. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” a…

Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde vs. Martin Mary Reilly The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the book Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin is the same documented dialect that describes a person with two extreme personalities and temperaments. However, both Stevenson and Martin display a study of the psychological perception of the nature between good and evil within a man. The two historical accounts of this alarmingly dramatic science-fiction tale of Dr. Jekyll…

This essay will analyse Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Lord Byron’s the “Darkness” in terms of humanity and its animalistic characteristics that lie deep within our species. Stevenson’s novel opens with a description of Mr. Utterson. He is “cold, scanty, […] lean, long, dusty, dreary” (1645) and so on. Most of these adjectives could better describe a hanger than a person. Nevertheless, Utterson is “somehow loveable” (1645) in a way that cannot be…

developed than the good which [he] had just deposed” (44). Mr. Hyde was Dr. Jekyll’s desire, but the risk in all of this was the fact that Mr. Hyde was evil. Sometimes people’s dreams and wishes are not what they thought they would be. This was the case with Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde was sinister and hurt people. Dr. Jekyll’s desire was met, but most likely not the way he wanted it to be. The evilness inside Mr. Hyde made his pull even stronger on Dr. Jekyll. Once he started there was no way to stop.…

Mr Hyde as sinful and immoral characters by the Victorian and Jacobean audience. The concept of “Macbeth” played on ideas such as the divine right of Kings, the supernatural as well as the expected role of women in society. Whereas in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, Stevenson used the position of Hyde as a representation of Dr Jekyll’s disreputable desires as a way of demonstrating the Victorian compromise. Both authors have therefore left the readers with such questions: are…

Victorian Decadence In, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson consists of Victorian Decadence or Fin de Siècle aspects throughout the story. One aspect of Victorian Decadence is the anti-Romantic belief in original sin and in the fallen man and nature. The omnipresence of evil, lack of health, balance, innocence, and the grotesque can belong with the first aspect, also. An example in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” would be Mr. Utter son’s interest in the fallen man…

Gothic literature is didactic as it exposes the inner mechanisms of mans mind and the resulting repression within society. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ explores the nature of mankind, the inner psychology of man’s mind and the perversions that drives their behaviour through his protagonist, Dr Jekyll, a man who is hiding a darker side of him, Mr Hyde. Gothic literature, especially Stevensons’s novella also examines the dichotomy of society and the…

Bennett and Royle discuss how many short stories revolve around the main character having an epiphany (54). In Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll experiences the struggle between good and evil that occurs in every person and the devastating effects it can have when evil overcomes good. In the story, Dr. Jekyll has the epiphany the evil personality of Mr. Hyde was overcoming the good in Dr. Jekyll. The quote illustrates the idea the choice Dr. Jekyll makes when…

Gilman, is more than just a story about a mad woman. It unveils many symptoms of madness that can be traced down to the root cause. Another example is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, which tells the conflicts a man who restricted himself too much but ended up losing control over his life. In both cases, the protagonists of the story have some sort of madness, yet the causes of it seem to be somewhat related. Their inability to live utterly drove them into…