Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Polarity of Good and Evil and Victorian Society In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, the themes of good versus evil, the duality of man and Victorian society are perpetual. Further, the Law of Polarity is a universal law that states that everything has an opposite and everything exists as a result of positive and negative forces. The Law of Polarity applies to different aspects found in the book The Law of Polarity is evident in the…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and 1984 are two interesting novels that are quite different but also share characteristics in common. Both, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and 1984, share an event that contains characteristics that can be compared through different ways. These events both share the fact that they affect the readers understanding of the plot and the reader’s knowledge of the main character. These two books make you look at the world very differently. Firstly, the events that will be compared…

The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most famous gothic and horror classics in our history. In the book, Dr. Jekyll takes a potion to become Mr. Hyde, which is Dr. Jekyll dark side. The story eventually brought upon the famous mental condition of a ‘split personality’ which psychologists now refer to dissociative identity disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, has been an ongoing controversial diagnosis of mental disorders…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a book about a doctor named Dr. Jekyll who, through a potion, becomes Mr. Hyde. He is good and evil. He likes throw dinner parties and attend to his religious duties, but then he creates terror. The novel shows the struggle between good and evil, which is found in all men. All people have good and evil in them. An example of this is when I went to dinner with friends and they smeared pizza on the wall at the…

Introduction: (250 words) Mr Burns is a 56-year-old male suffering from a terminal illness. Due to his illness, he is in a great deal of pain and has a heavy medication regime. During his hospitalisation Mr Burns has begun to develop pressure areas and must be re-positioned every 2 hours as part of his care plan. Even though re-positioning is a simple procedure, it causes Mr Burns a great amount of pain and requires large doses of pain relief for him to tolerate it. Mr Burns has requested that…

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is the story of the well-respected Dr. Jekyll who brews a concoction that when imbibed, allows him to become the embodiment of his repressed sinful nature. As Mr. Hyde, the man into whom Dr. Jekyll transforms, slowly takes more and more control over their body, Dr. Jekyll must face the consequences of his actions. The story is highly complex, interweaving themes of the duality of human nature, morality and immorality,…

Through the novel we question the duality of human Nature in the book called Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde illustrates how a human has a dual personality. While analyzing the events that take place, some significant themes show an evil and good side of a character can represent. These themes include the outcast of an individual on society, reputation, and Uncontrollable desires. In the 1800 century, the talk about the duality of human nature has increased in the aspect of the theme…

How are humans all different? The novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson is about a man with a man with a multi personality with a good and dark side. the different areas of London and the different part of Jekyll’s house that Stevenson uses, explores that humans are diverse and multifarious. Humans can be multifarious by having a private and our public self in the novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, through Stevenson's style it will show it will prove that we are multifarious . It shows…

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was written taking place in Victorian England. The English were thought of to be very conservative during this time. This is part of what allows Stevenson to explore the whole other side of this society in Mr Hyde. This book takes place in the Victorian era in which the english were more conservative and this book allows the not so conservative side of england during this time to be brought to light. Lawyer and friend of Dr…

The theme of good and evil exists in this world. A famous book written in the Victorian Era embodies the description of evil. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s mystery novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Stevenson uses descriptive language to create a mood. Throughout the book, Stevenson uses metaphors to depict Hyde as evil. Dr. Jekyll has known Hyde is evil. Yet, he enjoyed it until he realized how Hyde was destroying him physically and mentally. Jekyll was losing control of his mind, his actions,…