Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Clearly, Victorian England was a country of strong contrasts. Dirt and filth of slums on one side and elegant houses of rich people on the other, progress and leisure went side by side with poverty and exploitation of workers. A picture so well painted by Charles Dickens in the A Tale of two cities: Scientific progress and colonialism brought prosperity to English nation but with it fear crept in, too. 'Charles Darwin's new study on the idea of fitness in the world added to the anxieties that…

soon begins to fall into temptation and fails to keep the evil side of his person controlled because he becomes addicted to his own experiments, which allows the evil side of his person the freedom it desires. This actually leads to the death of Dr. Jekyll. The novel is a great example of dualism and of how if we don’t learn to cope with our inner beings by accepting who we are and submitting to the unknown, then in the end we end up creating our own enemy/weakness. This if given access to…

values. The Sybil Vane encounter reflects how deeply the immoral teachings are planted in the mind of Dorian. After being enthralled by the latter’s beauty and social status, Sybil Vane, a poor but a talented stage actress falls in love with him. She also calls him “Prince Charming” due to his unstained beauty and goes against her family members who do approve her love for Dorian. However, Dorian wants to explore his sensuality and to know about all aspects of life and can’t fathom her love…

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a perfect example of this. Dr. Jekyll has another personality, Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde eventually becomes the dominant personality, but he doesn’t get there without hurting Dr. Jekyll and the people Jekyll cares about. The story reminds the reader that the…

Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was performed as a play. The story deals with the torn personality of Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde. The performance of the play coincided with press releases about the Ripper, and the press began to compare the two, contributing to the ‘mad doctor’ theory of the Ripper. The idea was the Ripper could be a respectable doctor by day, like Dr. Jekyll, and at night he turns into a beast with a lust for blood, like Mr. Hyde. The…

centuries ago. Nowadays, the meaning of the word ‘gothic’ is commonly misconstrued. The word originally pertained to a Germanic tribe called the Goths, centuries later it came to describe novels such as ‘Frankenstein’ (1818) , ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (1886), ‘Carmilla’ (1872) and ‘Dracula’(1897). The gothic novel is recognised to have begun in England in the late 1700s with heavy focus on setting to show a decaying world, with the characters following similar roles in each…

be very much prevalent in our world even now. Throughout our history, there have been many cases and sightings of doppelgangers, that haven’t really been looked into very much. Whenever people bring up the paranormal, our minds first go to ghosts or poltergeists, never even…

From the doppelgänger in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to the lab-grown raptors in Jurassic Park, the concept of duplicating living creatures has existed in our media for centuries and persists even today. Nowadays, the concept of recreating a human being or an extinct species is not too fantastical a concept with the advent of 3D printing technologies and research in the fields of biochemistry, anatomy, and cell biology. There are a number of suggested purposes for…

A. Hoffmann, Die Elixiere des Teufels (The Devil’s Elixir) (1815-16) and “Die Doppelgänger” (The Doppelgänger) (1821), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818; 1823), Edgar Allan Poe’s William Wilson (1839) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). In the 19th century, thanks to the renewed interest of the Romantic movement and Gothic fiction in the matter, the figure of the doppelgänger took on a new complexity and significance. Discoveries in science and psychology…

We as a society like to be entertained in all sorts of manner. Most like to laugh, some like to cry, some like to feel the warmth in their heart from love, then there are the few who like to be scared. We like to feel the adrenaline running through our veins our blood pumping, and our heart racing just from being scared. Somehow we find joy in being scared whether it through a scary movie or horror novel that we are currently reading, we have to give thanks to the man who started this genre with…