Strange quark

The form of addiction presented in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presents the reader with a theme of addiction to enhance the more straightforward good versus evil motif in the novella. Dr. Jekyll’s addiction presents a lure to the elixir which changes his previous Victorian gentleman status and seems to isolate him from this previous being. The alteration of him is explored throughout the story as the nature of Dr. Jekyll changes once Mr. Hyde begins to…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s created a mind-blowing suspense and intrigue in his novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” One such example of literary tension is in the very beginning. First, the reader is not introduced to the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in chapter one; this is unlike how most books are introduced. Instead the readers are introduced to entertaining characters Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson: MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance… lean, long…

Did you ever notice that people have more than one personality? Well, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, even the main characters Jekyll and Hyde represent duality in humans. The novel was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 and was published on December 5, 1886 by Longmans, Green & co. in England. It is about this man, Dr.Jekyll, who has evil desires he cannot fulfill, instead he wants to remove the evil part of him completely, he thinks he finally developed a formula that…

consciousness and sense of reality. For instance, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is more than just a story about a mad woman. It unveils many symptoms of madness that can be traced down to the root cause. Another example is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, which tells the conflicts a man who restricted himself too much but ended up losing control over his life. In both cases, the protagonists of the story have some sort of madness, yet…

If not for the medically inspired separation of the two parts of Dr. Jekyll’s whole, this novella by Robert Louis Stevenson might only be the sad tale of a man who is forced, by society and societal morals, to be a man he never wanted to be. Much like Mary Shelley’s monster of Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde is a by-product of society, but, in this case, he is also a by-product of the suppression of self, frequently based on moral and religious beliefs. Mr. Hyde is a reflection of the inner self we…

from now and from back in the Victorian eras. There was different sets of morals over time based on religion and other perceptions of good and evil in literature and different forms media going back from the Victorian era till now. In the books the strange cases of Dr .Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the hunger games, Dracula and Beowulf this are some of the literate that support the morels and how good and evil was perceive and how their actions were justified as good or evil. The thesis for this paper is…

There is a good and a bad in every story. The famous idea of having an angel and a devil on one’s shoulders is the main focus in the novel In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well known and respected scientist who does dangerous experiments. One of his experiments created a clone of himself, but only his evil side. Whenever he takes the special potion he created, Henry Jekyll turns into a new man. This man he created was Edward…

In the opening scene of the 1931 film production of Frankenstein, the host on-screen introduces and warns us of the horrifying tale about to take place. “I think it will thrill you, it may even shock you, it might even horrify you...Well, we’ve warned you” (Whale). Originally introduced in the late 1800s, the horror genre does not arrive upon the American film industry until the early 1930s when pioneer films like Dracula and Frankenstein were first released. Over the years, the popularity of…

Jillian Richardson November 10th, 2014 The Similarities and Differences in the Causes of Attitudes in Charlotte Stetson’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde In Charlotte Stetson’s gothic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the unnamed narrator and Dr Jekyll display common attitudes that are influenced by the situations they find themselves. In “The Yellow…

Good and evil, a concept that has distracted mankind for countless centuries, and has led to both philosophical, and religious debates worldwide. What can be considered good? What is evil? Are people born good and made into evil? Or are there some beings that are just inherently evil? The concepts get tossed to and fro in every context, with little resolution. In this paper, I will outline how Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde portrays good and evil in a vastly different than that of Frankenstein, and what…