Mrs Dalloway

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson uses the mood to dictate the connotation the audience has for a character; for instance, how Stevenson associates impurity with Mr. Hyde, as opposed to the upper-class stature of Dr. Jekyll. In the chapter "Search For Hyde", during Utterson's first confrontation with Hyde, Hyde gives him his address located in Soho, which is described as, "The dismal quarter of Soho . . . a district of some city…

of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll’s actions in his past eventually influenced his future actions in the book. Dr. Jekyll was a well known physician and his actions caused guilt, leading to the uprising of Mr. Hyde. Everyone in Jekyll’s past knew he was, “...wild when he was young” (26) which might have influenced Dr. Jekyll’s evil side later on in his life. Stevenson forces us to realize that Dr. Jekyll’s actions when he was younger brought about Mr.…

cruelty. To elaborate on Mrs.Defarge and Lucie, they have been both placed into a situation where the option to help people, Mrs. Defarge and the French and Lucie to her family and strangers she meets such as darnay at the beginning of the tale. Lucie chooses to be kind in helping others as she stood up for darnay and treated Mr.Lorry with kindness despite giving her a shock. Mrs. Defarge however is not as merciful. She choses to “help”…

without ruining his reputation. So, he turns into Mr. Hyde for the first time, which makes him feel satisfied. Over time he realizes what happens when he turns into Mr. Hyde and stops himself for a while. Only, he cannot stay away from turning and inevitably turns into Mr. Hyde. Eventually Dr. Jekyll turns into Mr. Hyde but cannot turn back to Dr. Jekyll, which makes Dr. Jekyll non-existent and conscious of all the bad that happened when he was Mr. Hyde. The archetypal theme of trying to repress…

occasions, there are certain people who give into their desires without thinking of the consequences and cause mayhem in the society. The story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stewart Stevenson would be an example of this concept of “good vs. bad” in society. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll was considered a good man who denied the things that he truly enjoyed. Stevenson introduces the theme of the duality of human nature that takes place in…

sensationalism and represents an immoral lifestyle that may include violence in extremity. The reading of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to a modern audience would no longer hold the ability to shock and scare the reader, however this was its main purpose at the time of the production. It is therefore significant to consider the ways in which the definition of horror and how people recognize…

brimming underneath is a disturbing persona of contradictions. Victorian society itself while seemingly pleasant and pleasing to the eye was brimming with an underworld of carnality. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a matter of duality is brought up. As well as a noticeable pun used in the title in regards Jekyll’s alter ego is pronounced the same as the word hide meaning to cloak or suppress. The intentional quality is clear. Hyde and his name are…

of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Through cinematic and literary close analysis, I plan on exploring how duplicity thrives within the confines of our own minds, and by showing how each author develops their protagonists' alter-egos--their "altered egos" as well. My focus shall be on Riggan Thomson and Dr. Jekyll, as I attempt to dig out, to bring to light, the ontological implications that these masters of art have woven throughout their works. In the movie Birdman,…

In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson, portrays the subject curiosity very well because other subjects such as duality and temptation are a result of it. Each character in the story has a different and distinct curiosity and those who do not choose to unravel the mystery are considered as bland and unimportant. All big ideas start off as small and innocent ones, but it is up to a person’s curiosity to where and how far they will take it. This curiosity separates the ones…

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…