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known as a ‘dark side’, but not all of them show it. Instead they try to hide it. In Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew uses face paint as basically a mask to make him more mean-looking when he’s hunting with his crew to hide his ‘dark side’. In Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll makes a potion that turns him into Mr. Hyde to cover Dr. Jekyll’s ‘dark side’. Last of all, in The Catcher in the Rye, main character Holden Caulfield, carries a red hunting hat everywhere he goes to…

In history The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel that has a very gothic-science theme. In this novels an educated man/Doctor does secret experiments that passes it intent. The result of these experiments is the release of a split personality. In this essay there will be many topics discussed and presented. For example, how is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can be seen as an addiction, Why this story persisted into the present day, and a compare and contrast of the…

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The First case of foreshadowing is in chapter two when Lanyon is describing Jekyll’s work to be “scientifically balderdash”. This is a clue that what Dr. Jekyll experiments with is truly unbelievable to the common man. This can only be recognized later in the book…

Why do we find evil so much more fascinating than goodness? Evil is the flip side of human existence. Additionally, we are “ morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest realized… and it all happened, fittingly enough, in the dark”(King “Why We Crave” 3). In “ Why We Crave Horror” Stephen King precisely claims that our population crave horror to re-establish our feelings of essential normality, to experience a particular sort of fun, and in order to face our fears. In…

“Sometimes you don’t realize you’re drowning when you’re trying to be everyone else’s anchor,” -Unknown. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s prominent novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a dispute between good and evil is present throughout the outstanding book, especially in Henry Jekyll and his struggle with the two sides of life. Dr. Jekyll seems to be endeavoring to find himself and figuring out who he truly is, but loses himself and falls from grace in his lifetime. Not everyone is…

There are multiple types of archetypes that are present in all forms of literature. In the book, “Of Mice and Men,” by John Steinbeck, he demonstrates each archetype in a different character. There is the hero, the innocent, the wise man, the femme fatale, the outcast, the villain, and the caretaker. Some common characteristics of the Innocent are that they are pure, full of virtue, honest, and full of positive energy. Since they are so innocent and likable, they are often taken advantage of,…

The horror and hallucination factor of the first film is greatly decreased in the second. In Batman Begins Scarecrow uses a toxin on his victims that makes them hallucinate and see horrifying things such as a horse breathing fire and monstrous versions of characters’ faces. In the second film there is nothing like this. The most horrifying thing in The Dark Knight is the appearance of the burnt face of Two-Face. Christopher Nolan could have done this to attract younger audiences and leave more…

The author, T.F. Hodge, known for writing the book From Inside I Rise said, “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity”. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is about a psychiatric ward where the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, hold control over her patients through immoral means. A new patient, Randle McMurphy, doesn’t like the ideals of the ward and fights back. Manipulation is very…

WILLY WONKA- SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER About the character Willy Wonka is one of the main characters in Roald Dahl’s famous books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The character was portrayed by Gene Wilder in the 1971 film adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 2005 film adaptation, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Both the films and the books describe Willy Wonka as a phoenix-like man who…

Throughout the novel The Perfume- the story of a murderer, the author Patrick Süskind explores and displays his protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille’s journey from an orphan to the greatest perfumer in France with an array of different ways, ranging from an animal to a God. Süskind uses a variety of literary techniques such as zoomorphism, allusions, and imagery to reveal Grenouille’s fickle disposition. Consequently, the effect of making divine, animalistic and childlike comparisons of the…