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    shining pale and bright in the empty sky, there was not a person to be seen except for two men. The street was tranquil and nice, but something horrific took place here. This was a scene from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story takes place in London in the early 1800’s; it starts with two men, Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield, walking down the street when they come across a door. Mr. Enfield recalls an account of something that had happened there. He…

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    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…

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    ight Candlelight recommends wellbeing in the tutor 's account, while nightfall proposes threat. On various events, the tutor 's lit flame is stifled, dependably with the suggestion that something is amiss. At the highest point of the stairs, her light goes out at the accurate minute she sees Quint. She sees him in "icy, faint dusk." A week or two later, the tutor awakens to discover her flame smothered and Miles on the grass in splendid moonlight. Her perspective of him in that light…

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    Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reveals the tale of a well-known physician, Henry Jekyll, whose experimentations in the realm of human consciousness lead to his transformation into the horrifying, violent Edward Hyde. Many literary critics have speculated that the novella is a metaphor for multiple personality disorder, however, I believe that Stevenson was symbolizing a darker fear present during the Victorian era: the rise of cocaine use and the…

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    are strange. It may be something simple and embarrassing like a football player liking to watch Gossip Girl after practices or a girl having a secret fan account for One Direction. It may be a little more extreme like in the case of Dr. Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that…

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    Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde vs. Martin Mary Reilly The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the book Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin is the same documented dialect that describes a person with two extreme personalities and temperaments. However, both Stevenson and Martin display a study of the psychological perception of the nature between good and evil within a man. The two historical accounts of this alarmingly dramatic science-fiction tale of Dr. Jekyll…

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    In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Enfield tells his kinsman, Mr. Utterson, the protagonist, about his horrifying encounter with Mr. Hyde: “I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o 'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps...street after street, all lighted up...” (5-6). Mr. Enfield recalls that it is in the “black” morning, on dark…

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    and editing stories and the struggle will go on until we stop. The text 's The Driver 's Seat by Muriel Spark and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson both show the power and lack that the reader and the author have. In his famous essay 'The Death of the Author ' Roland Barthes claimed that "the…

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    within Stevenson. The contextual time period was always dual in nature, where the concepts and ideas introduced by modern science were constantly battling with the traditional religious foundations of society. This duality of morality vs science can be generalised into the concept of the objective vs the subjective. Stevenson intrinsically incorporates these dualities within the novel, as it explores the concepts of morality, science, the objective and the subjective. The article, “Robert…

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    worse in one. While on the surface is a clean countenance 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…

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