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    here. This was a scene from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story takes place in London in the early 1800’s; it starts with two men, Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield, walking down the street when they come across a door. Mr. Enfield recalls an account of something that had happened there. He introduces Mr. Hyde to the story, a very distasteful man who represents the id of human nature. This man’s counterpart, Dr. Jekyll, represents the superego of…

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    Dr Hyde Good Vs Evil

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    feels internally doesn't always reflect their actions. What represents good and evil, it's arbitrary, it's based on customs, culture, and legends. Evil can be custom made just as much as Good can. In “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis, the esteemed Dr. Jekyll battles with his darker self, this reflects humanity's struggle between selfish desires and the desire to do good by others. London, know for its humdrum weather, morally restricted people, poshness, and its…

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    case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, the element of moral ambiguity appears through Dr. Jekyll and his experimentations. Dr. Jekyll lives in an era known as the Victorian Era, in which there are many strict rules and social constraints. By the demands that he should be good all the time, Dr. Jekyll creates a potion to separate his personalities. The separation creates Mr. Hyde, his alter ego, who represents the darker side of Dr. Jekyll, exhibiting and representing Dr.…

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    Duality is all around us. In humans, thoughts, and places. In the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll creates a potion which turns him into hyde, hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same people but with different personalities inside the same person. Duality is and these everywhere and it is in human nature, in the places around us. Duality is needed in the world to\ balance things out in the world, because sometimes there is too much of evil and sometimes there is too much of good. Duality…

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    Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, referenced Carl Jung’s theories and played with the idea of what made someone good and another evil through characters and events of the book. Firstly, Carl Jung, a Swedish psychologist, believed in archetypes of humans, especially the shadow archetype. The shadow archetype, according to Carl Jung, is one’s darker side and is filled with impulses, darker intentions, and others of the like. Additionally, Carl Jung stated…

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    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish writer, more drown into novels, that became famous with his “Treasure Island” (1883) and “The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (1886). He was born in the capital of Scotland Edinburgh. His father was the notable engineer Thomas Stevenson. He had very over protected parents that didn’t allow him to leave his house much, due to his chronic bronchial disease. It was lying in bed that he developed his artist side, and came up with some of his…

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    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…

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    supernatural nature of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A woman See Mr hyde beat up an old man up and she contacts the police then the police contact utterson. Then utterson leads the police to Mr. Hyde apartment but he's not their he's vanished. Then the next mourning Utterson visit Dr.Jekyll and he said he broke all ties with mr. hyde but has a letter that mr. hyde wrote to dr.Jekyll and he apologies for the trouble he causes and stuff like that. Utterson see that the handwriting is the same as dr.…

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    strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is clearly and examination of the duality of human nature. This essay analyse’s the duality of the human beings Dr Jekyll supposes that within each individual there are two sides, the favourable and corrupt, struggling to be in control. Dr Jekyll constituted hyde due to the way his senses was more corrupt, it was described as an evil side furious to be in authority. Dr Jekyll stated…

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson’s, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is probably one of the best known works to come out of the Victorian Era. This short novella griped the audiences of the late nineteenth century Britons, and its popularity has not wavered. You would be hard pressed to find an average person who does not know the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1894 Joseph Jacobs wrote that “it stands beside The Pilgrim’s Progress and Gulliver’s Travels as one of the three great…

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