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    Shelley’s gothic monster of the imagination is compared to the ‘devil’(1) of Hyde displaying man’s mental inhibitions. Stevenson adapted Frankenstein into a creation of science that inhabits the oppressive aspects of humanity. The fear is haunting because the elements of animality are presented as lingering within everyone thus intensifying the horror. The idea that the monster evolved from the beast within, portrays a more tangible monster. “Jekyll grew pale to the lips… a blackness about his…

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    potential, when he looked in the mirror he observed that in the, “ranks of mankind, he was pure evil.” but he didn’t grasp Hyde’s capabilities. Later, Jekyll lets Hyde out again and Hyde demonstrates his potential. Hyde brutally murders MP Sir Danvers Carew, this utterly disturbs Jekyll, who realizes that he is responsible. Jekyll then declares to Utterson that he is, “quite done with [Hyde].” This enforces that he was still coming to terms with accepting who he was, and the wickedness that…

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    and ongoing Marvel comic written by G. Willow Wilson and illustrated by Adrian Alphona. Just like Amazing Fantasy #15, Ms. Marvel is an origin story about a teenage superhero that tells of how Kamala Khan rises up to continue the legacy of Carol Danvers by becoming the new Ms. Marvel. Kamala is a 16 year old Pakistani-American who practices the Muslim faith with her immigrant parents and her older brother in Jersey City. She is a superhero fangirl and is gifted with powers that she has no idea…

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1886. Robert Stevenson became very popular after the publishing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde one of his finest books (“Robert”). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a story that tells about good and evil. Throughout Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Good vs. Evil is experienced in life through split personality’s, strange actions, and the death of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde split personalities show good vs evil…

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    Individuals live in a world that is imperfect. There are good versus evil sides, in one person. People try to control their good and bad personalities, but can evil be controlled. In this classic of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson shows the difference between the gentleman Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde. In the year of publication in Victorian England because of crimes many people were frightened after reading the novel. This novel takes readers on a mysterious journey…

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    Out of the many characters, both in Katherine Howe’s Conversion and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, two stand firm in their convictions, doubting what is the supposed truth. John Proctor and Colleen Rowley keep their stance on their beliefs until own self-doubt creeps up, stemming from personal connections to the controversy. But in Conversion, the character Ann Putnam is not doubting the witchcraft in Salem, but perpetuating the rumor, and is one of the main accusers. Reputation and how others…

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    that he has a great interest in Hyde and is determined to provide for him and hopes that Utterson will respect his wishes. Just one year after the dinner party in the wee hours of a morning a maid witnesses Mr. Hyde commit a murder against a Sir Danvers Carew whom is holding a letter that is addressed to Mr. Utterson. When the authorities find Utterson he remembers that he still has Hyde’s…

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    mentioned throughout the tale. The first female pointed out was the little girl whom Mr. Hyde stamped on; the incident observed by Enfield, which he then related to Utterson (Stevenson 1,678-79). The second was the maid who witnessed the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, committed by Mr. Hyde (1,687-88). Though it was noted that she was the person who brought the murder to the attention of the police, she had no spoken lines in the narrative (1,687-88). The third female was Mr. Hyde’s landlady, her…

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    John attended Oxford and was not particularly popular with the other guys because of his strange infatuation with studying science and black magic. However, he was well liked by the girls on campus. John goes on to meet a girl by the name of Kate Danvers, whom he later married. Shortly after this he became the Hurst of Hurstcote. Bernard was invited to stay at John’s…

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    building suspense in his novel, though du Maurier also crafts scenes in Rebecca that are remarkably suspenseful. One of the most striking examples comes when the narrator had just awoken from a terrible night at a dinner party the night before, and Mrs. Danvers, the head housekeeper, tries to coerce her to jump to her death, whispering “Go on…Go on don’t be afraid” (Du Maurier 251). as the narrator stands on the edge of the window, prepared to end her life. In that section of the book the…

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