Catherine Ryan Hyde

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author Robert Louis Stevenson uses the theme of dual identity to make a commentary on Victorian society and human nature. Stevenson is critical of the repression that exists within Victorian culture. He uses the motif of the double to demonstrate the dangers of refusing to acknowledge the animalistic nature of man. When this aspect of man is repressed and alienated, it grows even stronger and takes on a life of its own. Mr. Hyde is the frightening…

contrast the personalities of Dr Henry Jekyll and Mr Hyde- how do they develop throughout the novel? Introduction: In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, two men embody the polar opposites of good and evil and attempt to keep the two sides completely separate to the eyes of Victorian society and the Victorian reader; however the constant battle of sides is eventually won by evil. Evil is embodied in the form of Mr Hyde and good in the form of Dr Jekyll…

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 Mr. Hyde, they finally…

the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. This quote clearly demonstrates the theme of the book. It shows how the concept of good and evil is the predominant idea stated. Dr. Jekyll is your mad scientist type of character, he loves to experiment and sometimes his curiosity may be lurking in the wrong fields of science. One day, he comes up with a potion to make him a dual person, and Mr. Hyde is born. Jekyll and Hyde are two completely different people, or…

Mary Reilly and the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are similar in many ways, but just like any other movie and book pair, they are also very different in many ways. There are different point of views and some details may stray away from each other. I found that when watching the movie, the book and movie matched up almost perfect until the very end when Hyde/Jekyll died. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a very well-known novella that starts out with two separate…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde did not equally inhabit their host body. Jekyll mentions how the frequency of his metamorphosis increased involuntarily, without the potion. The contents within the potion brought forth Mr. Hyde. Eventually Mr. Hyde gains dominance over his host. Dr. Jekyll finds a bit of pleasure in the immoral actions of Mr. Hyde and is enticed to drink the potion more often. If they were separate streams of consciousness, then one should not overlap the other. Duality represents polar…

From the novel “ Dr.Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” we can see the wish to have power to change the life, to become a hero, but actually it gave a negative affect and make Dr. Jekyll lost in the world of crime. Before, Dr.Jekyll and his partner Dr.Lanyon make an experience to change one person to become another. Base on the documents left from the dead men, they created a potion that can make Dr.Jekyll change and become Mr.Hyde. Based on the status of Hyde, Dr.Jekyll has traveled around the city and…

For instance, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins 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…

monster of Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde is a by-product of society, but, in this case, he is also a by-product of the suppression of self, frequently based on moral and religious beliefs. Mr. Hyde is a reflection of the inner self we sometimes hide and he reveals the reasons that inner self is frequently concealed. At times he is only one part of the influential and respected doctor, but at other times, he seems to be the only remaining survivor of the psychological pair. Mr. Hyde is an example of…

Victorian eras. There was different sets of morals over time based on religion and other perceptions of good and evil in literature and different forms media going back from the Victorian era till now. In the books the strange cases of Dr .Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the hunger games, Dracula and Beowulf this are some of the literate that support the morels and how good and evil was perceive and how their actions were justified as good or evil. The thesis for this paper is that morals and perception of…