...The Sybil Beauty In life we, as children, are taught to be ourselves in this world. There’s nothing else you can be, or so I thought. This novel has given me a better look into what being “two-faced” or, on a more ironic note, a “Jekyll and Hyde” means. Stevenson’s right, “man is not truly one, but truly two.”, and sometimes more. Me at school, and me at home are two extremely different things. At school I’m quiet, shy, and drastically soft-spoken. I always have been, and probably always will be. My friends like me for that quality. That’s with friends though. One of my teachers this year constantly harps on my quietness. He says hi to me in the mornings, and it seems to me that he always says something like, “Why do you always sound so timid when I say hi to you? You’re not like that during class. So, why so shy now?” I’ve never legitimately answered him. But, I honestly don’t know why, because I’m only like that in school. Sure, I’m a little soft spoken, and sure I’m not the most talkative in that class, but I’m not unconfident. I’m just naturally soft spoken. I don’t normally raise my hand and blurt out answers, or go up to a teacher and have a random conversation. I don’t like talking in front of people, because I’m afraid of what they think. I’m afraid of being judged. It’s like I’m a whole other person. Frightened, and timid. On the other hand, at home I am a COMPLETELY different person. If my mom was to hear any of my teachers say, “She’s just an angel.”, or “She’s...
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...The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. 'I incline to, Cain's heresy,' he used to say. 'I let my brother go to the devil in his quaintly: 'own way.' In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour. No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest...
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...distribution channel, personnel and communication. Brand of choice: Batman (fictional character, superhero category) Purpose / Philosophy of the Brand: Providing entertainment, delight and peace of mind for the audience in the idea of a world with absolute justice being served, adulation for the perpetrator of absolute justice. Human insight / truth that the brand is based on: People would relate strongly with a definition of justice that entails a strong moral code and self-restraint, and the triumph of man’s intellect over everything else. Benefit: Entertainment, reassurance at idealistic identity. What makes it believable: Vulnerability, lack of superpowers – human-like, sentimental nature of the superhero, Jekyll and Hyde nature of identities (Hyde being a farce) What makes it distinctive: 1.) Pure human (as against alien, mutant, morphed-human) 2.) Physical strength as a manifestation of intellect (competes only with Iron-Man of Marvel) 3.) Two lives – Bruce Wayne and Batman (as against Iron-Man’s single identity) 4.) Associated apparel and motifs (bat as the symbol...
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...Evolution of a Jekyll and Hyde Personality 1886, was the birth of Jekyll and Hyde, published by Robert Louis Stevenson. Known to be one of Stevenson’s best novels, the novel is about a doctor named Henry Jekyll who struggles with the inner conflict of dual personalities with his hidden evil persona, Edward Hyde. Dr. Jekyll was a prominent doctor who is widely respected in his era. In addition, his friendly demeanor made him well connected and well liked. But despite being so well made, Dr Jekyll was seen spending a great deal of his time battling strong evil urges which he found repugnant for his stature. Believing that two entities were living inside his body, he tries to develop a serum in an attempt to repress such urges, but in doing so, Dr Jekyll unleashed an even more dreadful representation of the pure evil that resided within him, who is known as Mr Hyde. With no moral vindication, Hyde committed heinous acts of brutality and murder with often no remorse. As time went by, Hyde became a larger entity in his body as Jekyll was slowly succumbing to the thrills and immoral freedom that Hyde gave in his rampage. The aforementioned novel was written as a fiction in the Victorian age of the 1800s, but dual personalities are still apparent and very real in today’s context. This behavior is scientifically known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), or better known for its previous appellant, Multiple personality Disorder (MPD). Much like Jekyll and Hyde’s dual personality...
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...How has your study of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and an appropriation of your own choosing enhanced your understanding of how and why cultural values are maintained and changed? “The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, follows the duplicitous notion of a single body containing both the erudite Dr. Jekyll and the depraved Mr. Hyde. Stevenson’s novella imagines an inextricable link between civilization and savagery, and the palpable influence of cultural value and standard. Set within the height of the Victorian era circa 1886, this duality of human nature is examined by a specific Eurocentric interpretation, narrated by the mild-mannered lawyer Mr Utterson. Steven Moore’s filmic appropriation of the original novella is the BBC television series “Jekyll”, which encapsulates the similar split personality of Dr Tom Jackman and his alter ego ‘Mr Hyde’, within today’s current context. Through analysis of both the novella and the first episode of the film adaptation, a clear similarity between both protagonist’s circumstances is observed. However, the effects societal interpretation has on this controversy is varied in such a way, which distorts the very nature of duplicity, and thus the definition of the classic trope of Jekyll and Hyde. Social respectability and the desire to pursue pleasure both offer the fantasy solution of having a second self to carry the burden of one’s vices. Dr Jekyll explores the circumstance of an educated, Victorian...
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...Create a character chart detailing description and personality and appearances of Jekyll and Hyde. Hyde. 1. “He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.” In this quotation it appears in Chapter 1, “Story of the Door,” when Enfield relates to Utterson how he watched Hyde trample a little girl. When Utterson asks his friend to describe Hyde’s appearance, Enfield, as the quote indicates, is unable to describe a clear portrait. He claims that Hyde is deformed, ugly, and inspires an immediate revulsion, and he cannot say why. 2. “I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy. I was once more Edward Hyde.” The above description implies that Jekyll, in becoming Hyde, is regressing into the primitive and coming closer to the violent, amoral world of animals. 3. “It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my...
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...The attempt to separate the evil from the good didn’t end well for Dr. Jekyll because his dark side took more control. He tried to not turn into Mr. Hyde but the monster arose within him at times unwillingly and unplanned. Dr. Jekyll really tried to stop the creature inside him but “The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll.”(Greenblatt) The bad side within him was growing stronger and doing bad things that made him somewhat complete. I think that even though he didn’t want to do bad things that side sort of balanced him out. His evil side got even worse as the story progressed. The horrible Mr. Hyde was “a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.”(Greenblatt)...
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...The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the greatest examples in literature showing the faults of humankind. Many of Dr. Jekyll’s colleagues and other scientists warned against him pursuing the path of unknown science, however, he was careless and ignored all of them. Both Jekyll and Hyde suffered addiction and were too weak-willed to overcome their temptations. The two sides of one person, Jekyll and Hyde, representing the battle between good and evil. The body below shall prove the three faults of humankind that can be found in the novel. The first point shows that there were much carelessness and ignorance in the novel. In the novel, Jekyll explains how the science community advised against going through...
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...Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by author Robert Stevenson, is a story about Dr. Jekyll, a well respected wealthy doctor, who believes that man is truly two separate people. One evil, and one good. As he goes down the path of finding the best of both worlds he creates a potion that allows him to become the darker half of himself, named Mr. Hyde. As murders and strange encounters start happening, those close to Dr. Jekyll notice that he is acting strange. Not knowing about his other side, they realize that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have some sort of relationship. As Jekyll’s transformations become out of control, his friends soon find out the truth, that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. In this novel, Stevenson illustrates that every person has a good and evil side, it is just a matter of making sure one doesn’t overpower the other....
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...In the novel Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses imagery, diction, and details to create a mysterious mood.The book Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a very old classic written in the Victorian London time period. The book was written after he had a nightmare and that gave him the inspiration to write the book. The book turned out to be a big success and is now a inspiration to many people to do many different things. In his book there is a lot of imagery, diction, and details that make the book better and more enjoyable book to read. Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde uses a lot of imagery in the book in different ways to make the book better. As stated from the book “the door… was blistered and destained.” This was on page 49. This quote from the book conveys imagery by using details about how the door looks and the two words also sound like mysterious or dark words to help with the mood of the story. As said from the book “ As he spoke into a large, low roofed, comfortable hall… “ this was on page 62, This shows imagery by using key adjectives in order to give a picture in your head on how the place looks. “... by a bright, open fire, and furnished with costly cabinets of oak “ this was on page 62, this creates imagery by using descriptive words to help create a detailed picture in your mind about what the place looks like. In conclusion the book Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde uses very descriptive and detailed imagery in the book. The book Dr.Jekyll and...
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...of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born November 13 1850 in Edinburgh Scotland. Robert Louis Stevenson started to have breathing problems at a young age and later it developed into tuberculosis. His father Thomas Stevenson was in the business of lighthouse design, so Robert enrolled at the age of 17 to the University of Edinburgh. The lighthouse design business wasn’t what Robert wanted to do but he wanted to help his family. After a short time in the lighthouse design program he decided to go into law school as a compromise with his father. He entered what was called the Scottish bar, which was an organization for lawyers. Around this time in his life he traveled a lot to places like France, Europe, and England all so he could be around young artists while he was still finishing law school. Robert graduated from law school in 1875, he never really put his law degree to use. Stevenson had a good eye for fashion. He adopted a wide brimmed hat, a cravat, and a boy’s coat, which got him the nickname of Velvet...
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... Two Minds. The novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson is a gothic mystery story based around addiction. By the title one would assume Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two people, strangely this is not the case. Dr. Jekyll was a well-known doctor in London, England; Mr. Hyde was his evil alter ego. An anonymous narrator in a third person point of view tells the tale. Jekyll while in his laboratory creates a potion that is able to change him inside and out. This potion destroys his physical appearance and erases all sense of mental stability. As Jekyll, the man was a smart successful and popular doctor, as Hyde he was a murderer, criminal, and intolerable ugly man. Jekyll drinks the potion and is miraculously changed, but over time the transformations become uncontrollable. Stevenson shows the man’s life becoming more degrading as the addiction becomes more prominent and depended. This is a very problematic topic in the story. Robert Lewis Stevenson demonstrated in his novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that any form of addiction can have catastrophic results such as becoming addicted to power, running away from reality, and temptation. The novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a story that deals with a prominent and well-respected person that acts in two completely different ways. The main character, Dr. Jekyll, from the story was a gifted doctor and a brilliant scientist. Whereas the alter ego, Mr. Hyde was a dark person who was compared to a sinful...
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...The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Lanyon’s narrative: One of the central themes in this chapter of the book “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is split personalities, and how that everyone has an evil side to their persona. In this chapter we discover Mr. Hyde’s (Jekyll’s evil, ugly side) transformation back to Dr. Jekyll with the help from an elixir he brews at his college’s (Dr. Lanyon) house. Another theme this chapter consists is silence. Throughout the text we don’t get to know much. As the reader we are mostly left in the dark. It does not tell how the situation came about or what it actually is. The story fits well in its period (The Victorian age). The story is dark and is filled with horror. Mr. Hyde symbolizes the break of the norms and the individualism there was during this period. As Mr. Hyde, Jekyll feels free, he doesn’t have to go with the society as the doctor he is. As Jekyll he is destined to follow the rules. This also fits well with Robert Louis Stevenson’s background. He also broke the norms from his strict and authoritarian family. He chose to become and author instead of becoming a scientist or a lawyer though it wasn’t as acknowledged back then. As said “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is very critical about the society. As Jekyll through Hyde breaks through the norms he becomes more and more evil, and Hyde starts to take over there personality and in the end kills himself (we assume). This could mean that society’s norms in the end will...
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...Robert Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. To better understand the protagonist and his alter antagonist, we can use the ethical critical approach along with the behavioral function: mental instability. The protagonist, Dr. Jekyll, has his own manifestation of an evil alter ego, which is a by-product of the gaping schism between the working class and the bourgeoisie, and an absolutely testament to his mental instability; which later begins to heavily affect his ethical decisions. The ethical critical approach supplements us as we study the behaviors and decisions of Jekyll and Hyde. A reason for Dr. Jekyll turning into the bête noire, or Hyde, could be explained as the adverse of everything he has ever had. It is that mental instability that affects his unethical decision to not tell anybody about his situation. Though to Jekyll, it may have seemed like a well-guarded secret, his close friend Utterson noticed his rather abnormal behavior. When confronted; in the novel, Jekyll was described as “The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came blackness about his eyes” (Stevenson 20). Jekyll is attempting to keep control, so that he does not transform into the hideously disfigured Hyde. When asked if Jekyll knows anything about Hyde, he becomes flush, and his pupils dilate because he is in fear that his secret will be discovered. At this point in the novel, Jekyll has very little control over Hyde, and cowers in fear that his good...
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...New Music Old Genre Tonight’s entertainment was surprisingly good and held my attention the entire night. The venue had an old industrial vibe as if I were walking into assembly line at Ford Motors, which I really understood artistically. I sat an hour before the ensemble began and enjoyed the Lipstick red wall and glimmering lights that fell onto the piano. It would be a great arrangement for any piano players’ showroom. As everyone took their seats, you could hear the musicians gearing up for their performance, particularly the cello and violin. The first song performed was Fantasy on Mr. Hyde’s Song. The Fantasy comes from Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and My Hyde, and Hyde’s mood after committing a murder. The performance was awesome. All the musicians played cohesive, the percussion was done very well. On percussion was Jacob Adam Garcia. The second song, DarkBloom was a solo performance by Courtenay Vandiver Pereira, who plays the cello, and might I add very well. Her technique and hand control was very consistent. The song itself was exactly dark bloom, more like dark gloom. To the point the guy next to me dose off. The third song titled Spur was played right before intermission. Honestly, I really don’t remember anything that stood out about this composition. At intermission I had a conversation with a gentle =man by the name of Trey Harris. An old school country music rock and roller, who did the lighting and sound production. We had great conversation...
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