Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s notorious novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is a narrative about the duality of human nature. It has become a cultural phenomenon, known even to those who have never read the book nor seen any of the adaptations. On the surface, the work seems to explore the struggle of good versus evil that occurs within every man. But, looking at the narrative from a slightly different perspective, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can be read as a story…

“Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Theme Of Friends” At the beginning of Robert Louis Stevenson book “the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” a strong sense of relationships is given based on the fact that all of the characters have known each other for a great deal of time, besides of course the strange Mr. Hyde who is new to these characters lives. The book opens with Mr. Utterson and gives a lengthy description about him. “ Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance…

Jim is the hero in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Departure of Jim’s journey consists of the Call to Adventure and the Beginning of the Adventure. The Call to Adventure is when Billy Bones enters into the Admiral Benbow Inn. After he enters, Jim’s life completely changes, with strangers, usually pirates, coming to the inn. An extreme wide shot and an objective point of view would be used in order to show all of the characters in the inn, introducing all of them. In order to show…

know Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego, however, alter ego is a misnomer because Hyde is simply a different aspect of Dr. Jekyll. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he uses Jekyll and Hyde to demonstrate his idea of humanity’s dual nature. Further, following Jekyll and the other characters, indifference and inaction, Stevenson outlines his idea that crime is a choice, and those who chose crime will face the consequences. Dr. Jekyll personifies humanity as…

there they lived long and happily” (Grimm 96). The concept of a happy ending is portrayed in many of the most famous stories around the world to demonstrate the power of good over evil. Alternatively, the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, suggests that good is not always the superior force. Throughout the story, a man named Henry Jekyll discovers two sides to himself, one good and one evil, from which he can transform back and forth. The prominence of evil is also seen in…

comparison of the two texts, Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film adaptation of the novel Psycho. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in Victorian England it focuses on a professional middle class man who conducts a series of scientific experiments which unleash from his own psyche the dark Mr Hyde. Psycho hinges on an encounter between Marion Crane, a secretary,…

Rich Choi Compare how the theme of evil is explored in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. “Man is the cruelest animal”, says Friedrich Nietzsche. He is trying to imply that humans are actually worse than any animal on the Earth. In other words, humans are destined not to get rid of their cruelty despite the fact that they believe that they are acting in a civilized way in a civilized society. LOTF (Lord of the Flies)…

Horror fiction in the 21st century has gradually developed far from its origins, to the extent where classic horror novellas of the Victorian period are considered to be parodies of how people interpret horror now. Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of the novella has written it very cleverly, with particular techniques utilized that have a greater impact on the readers that make it more than just any thriller and shocker. Moreover, the novella has been made as a shock which depends on…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a simple narrative, straightforward in its execution but complicated in its implications. Mr. Hyde is a complex metaphor, standing in for the dark underbelly of 19th century society. Thomas C. Foster, thankfully, lays out ways in which this metaphor is expressed in his How To Read Literature Like A Professor - including the roles of physical deformity, sexual metaphors, and geography. The most basic, and in fact textual,…

The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde teachers a numerous number of morals and lessons however, there is one important one that it expressed throughout the entire novella. Throughout the story, Robert Louis Stevenson dives into the duality of human nature through explaining Dr. Jekyll’s struggle with his good and evil sides in order to demonstrate how there is good and evil in everyone. This is main moral in the story as it expressed in numeral circumstances from the beginning, middle and…