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Outside Reading Paper Every being consists of a dark and evil side to their personality, no matter how moral or virtuous they may be. These antithetical traits manifest through conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, or influences. In the story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll finds himself at crossroads as he has to decide between being a respectable man or continuing his frivolous and indecent behavior. Ultimately, he figures out how his two contradictory traits can…

Later, after this ungraceful transformation, when Dr. Jekyll is explaining all these ill-doings, he says that he made and drank a potion that was supposed to separate him from his evil. He explains that he was trying to separate himself from Mr. Hyde and then once separated, kill Hyde so he would be free of his evil. This failed though, and he just turned into the purely evil Hyde and Hyde was set free into the world. After letting Hyde be free for such a long time, Jekyll starts to fear him and…

There’s no denying that Charles Manson was an individual with a distinctive and captivating personality. For instance, almost anything you read about Manson refers to him as being charismatic. “Note, for instance, a reporter’s observation: Manson had a charismatic personality, an undeniable presence. He was able to dominate, to bring others under his power” (Geis & Huston, 1971, p. 345). Likewise, many people correlate Manson’s magnetism and allure with regard to his musical abilities and…

“It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature,” (169). In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson; romanticism and modernism show up frequently. Robert Louis Stevenson wanted to see duality, and he did this through romanticism and…

Some people believe in superstition, as some believe every individual has a “wicked” person trapped inside just waiting to be released. For some, this may be right, but it can also just be another bad act of a person, making it as an excuse for their bad choices. In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 discovers a scientific experiment that releases the evil side of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a well known physician who drinks a potion that…

Victorian Era In the Victorian time period one's actions would reveal the way people judged them. Even now actions still show how people view others. In Robert Lewis Stevensons mystery novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Victorian Era influences Jekyll and Utterson's actions. Jekyll was forced to live a perfectly moral life. Jekyll is trying the potion to create an alter ego. Jekyll took the glass “[and] with a strong glow of courage,drank of the potion” (Stevenson 58). Once Jekyll tries the…

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…

At the start of the this book John Utterson who is a lawyer and he is well respected in the London community But doesn't really have an imagination and is a very rational person. So it's hard for him to understand the 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…

On 12/18/15 worker made an unannounced visit to the residence of Mr. Johnny Hyde, for the purpose of monitoring his situation. Mr. Higgins greeted worker and welcomed worker inside. The home was clean and did not present an odor. Mr. Hyde was sitting in his recliner eating fried bologna and jelly biscuit. Mr. Hyde proudly informed worker he had cooked breakfast for Mr. Higgins and himself. According to Mr. Hyde, sometimes Mr. Higgins cooks but Mr. Higgins always cleans because he does not have…

The story on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is centered upon the concept of humanity being an aspect of dual nature. This is true even though the totality of the theme does not fully come out until the last chapter of the story. The text not only brings out the duality that is involved in the human nature as a pertinent and crucial theme in this story but also brings out the vital aspect of being able to think critically on the properties which are involved with duality and the things to consider in…