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The story featured in this essay is called “The Hurst of Hurstcote” (1893) by E. Nesbit. This story starts off with a narrator, named Bernard, who is very close to the main protagonist in the story, John Hurst. He mentions that his friend is very unlikable due to his quirky, contradictory mindset about science and supernatural elements which set him apart from others. Even so, Hurst marries Kate, whom Bernard actually liked. Later, Hurst sends a letter to his comrade to visit him and come see…

As humans, people tend to look for a cure or a way to escape to enjoy everyday pleasures or create something new. Both Robert Stevenson and Mary Shelley write about this in their novels. Their works, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein, portray these issues and show how their characters go through with the issue. Their novels also show the archetype the fall, when a character starts at a higher state of being and then quickly fall to a lower state of being. In Stevenson’s…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is based on a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. Readers forget that this novel was written as a "shilling shocker." A shilling shocker is a short, graphic book, popular during the Victorian era (the mid-1800's to about 1900.) During this time, “Frankenstein” and “The Strange Case of…

William Bennett and J.R. Tolkien represent evil in different ways. Bennett's example of evil is America's drug problem, which he addresses through its spiritual and physical aspects. Tolkien demonstrates evil through the "Balrog" (Tolkien 330). However, he only writes about its physical aspects. Bennett and Tolkien agree that evil is a physically harmful problem that requires a type of sacrifice. For William Bennett, the problem of evil is drugs. Drugs can cause extreme harm both emotionally and…

Everyone has a choice. What matters, is if we make the right one. In the film Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix based on J.K. Rowling’s book, Sirius Black says, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we act on. That’s who we really are.” It’s clear that Dr. Henry Jekyll from the play, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” And Courtney Davidson who wrote the article “Confessions of a Former Hazer.” Both agree with Sirius Black’s quote. Dr.…

In the book “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a London scientist by the name of Dr. Henry Jekyll made a potion which brings his evil side forward; now he can’t control it. Now he became the first man to bring forward his evil side, Dr. Jekyll turns into Mr. Hyde, he doesn’t feel guilt, and he has little to no debt because Dr. Jekyll is a different person, and Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are two different people. To begin, Dr. Jekyll turns into for the…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson based in the dark streets of 19th century London, England. The protagonist is Dr. Henry Jekyll, a doctor of medicine who is well known and respected by the community but also experiments in his spare time. His main experiment of late is to separate the good and evil of a single man, as he believes that they are two separate entities confined in one person. He succeeds at first, splitting himself into two personas: his normal Dr. Jekyll,…

The Polarity of Good and Evil and Victorian Society In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, the themes of good versus evil, the duality of man and Victorian society are perpetual. Further, the Law of Polarity is a universal law that states that everything has an opposite and everything exists as a result of positive and negative forces. The Law of Polarity applies to different aspects found in the book The Law of Polarity is evident in the…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and 1984 are two interesting novels that are quite different but also share characteristics in common. Both, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and 1984, share an event that contains characteristics that can be compared through different ways. These events both share the fact that they affect the readers understanding of the plot and the reader’s knowledge of the main character. These two books make you look at the world very differently. Firstly, the events that will be compared…

The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most famous gothic and horror classics in our history. In the book, Dr. Jekyll takes a potion to become Mr. Hyde, which is Dr. Jekyll dark side. The story eventually brought upon the famous mental condition of a ‘split personality’ which psychologists now refer to dissociative identity disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, has been an ongoing controversial diagnosis of mental disorders…