...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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...t everyone has a dark side to them. Even the most nicest people you know could have a dark side. In the story of The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde we that Dr Jekyll who is a normal functioning human being in a gross monstrous demon, which is Mr Hyde. Beginning of the story, Mr. Utterson is trying to figure out what happen to his old friend/ old client of his Dr Jekyll. Dr Jekyll has been very reclusive, and has some been distant with friends. Throughout the story, we think that Mr Hyde is the worst character of them all, because he’s rude, evil and just plain awful. However, I believe that Dr Jekyll is the worst character in the book. First, What makes Dr Jekyll the worst character over Mr Hyde is that he aware that he turning himself...
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...the same events that have been unfolding in the story. Not from the point of view of Utterson, but from the point of view of Jekyll. This change in point of view makes a great modification certainly. All the events that seemed confusing or baffling before are explained. Jekyll reports that, after plentiful research, he finally found a chemical solution that might aid his purposes. Buying a vast number of salts as his last ingredient, he took the potion with the awareness that he was endangering his life, but he remained hopeful of making a great discovery. At first, he experienced absurd pain and nausea. He had become the contracted, deformed Mr. Hyde. He theorizes that Hyde’s small stature owed to the fact that this identity represented his evil side alone....
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...case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde after he had a nightmare. He wrote the book in just three days after the nightmare. In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis stevenson uses imagery, diction, and details to create a scary mood. Imagery is an important part in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it lets the reader see things better and it helps them to understand the scary mood better. An example of imagery that explains the mood is, ¨ The man trampled over the girl's body and left her screaming on the ground¨(50). This quote lets you imagine this happening in your head and when you think of it it is a horrific scene. Another scary quote is, “He turned a dreadful smile to me…”(107). This adds a scary mood...
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...In Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, his characters relate to Freud's psyche. Freud made these things that connect your personality, they are the Id, Ego, and Superego. Id does whatever it wants at that time without thinking about the consequences. Ego means the part of the personality that maintains the balance between the id and superego. The superego dictates our belief of what's right or wrong and is represented by an angle on your shoulder. The characters in this book represent Freud’s psychoanalysis by the way that they act and look in this novel in many different ways. The character that relates to the id's Mr.Hyde he represents this because he is extremely evil. Mr.Hyde absolutely...
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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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...Critical Analysis: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde As we grow older and learn more about the world and ourselves, there is something inside us that has not fully understood the sole purpose of its creation. Something so very common, yet, so misunderstood--identity. In Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, we see that not only is an older man struggling with his identity, but that it was also decades ago when this story was written, suggesting that an identity crises is nothing new and that we all go through it at some point in life. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ― Oscar Wilde. I found this quote relevant to this particular story and that the two go hand...
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...fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Duality of Human Nature Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde centers upon a conception of humanity as dual in nature, although the theme does not emerge fully until the last chapter, when the complete story of the Jekyll-Hyde relationship is revealed. Therefore, we confront the theory of a dual human nature explicitly only after having witnessed all of the events of the novel, including Hyde’s crimes and his ultimate eclipsing of Jekyll. The text not only posits the duality of human nature as its central theme but forces us to ponder the properties of this duality and to consider each of the novel’s episodes as we weigh various theories. Jekyll asserts that “man is not truly one, but truly two,” and he imagines the human soul as the battleground for an “angel” and a “fiend,” each struggling for mastery. But his potion, which he hoped would separate and purify each element, succeeds only in bringing the dark side into being—Hyde emerges, but he has no angelic counterpart. Once unleashed, Hyde slowly takes over, until Jekyll ceases to exist. If man is half angel and half fiend, one wonders what happens to the “angel” at the end of the novel. Perhaps the angel gives way permanently to Jekyll’s devil. Or perhaps Jekyll is simply mistaken: man is not “truly two” but is first and foremost the primitive creature embodied in Hyde, brought under tentative control by civilization, law, and conscience. According to this theory...
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...fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Duality of Human Nature Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde centers upon a conception of humanity as dual in nature, although the theme does not emerge fully until the last chapter, when the complete story of the Jekyll-Hyde relationship is revealed. Therefore, we confront the theory of a dual human nature explicitly only after having witnessed all of the events of the novel, including Hyde’s crimes and his ultimate eclipsing of Jekyll. The text not only posits the duality of human nature as its central theme but forces us to ponder the properties of this duality and to consider each of the novel’s episodes as we weigh various theories. Jekyll asserts that “man is not truly one, but truly two,” and he imagines the human soul as the battleground for an “angel” and a “fiend,” each struggling for mastery. But his potion, which he hoped would separate and purify each element, succeeds only in bringing the dark side into being—Hyde emerges, but he has no angelic counterpart. Once unleashed, Hyde slowly takes over, until Jekyll ceases to exist. If man is half angel and half fiend, one wonders what happens to the “angel” at the end of the novel. Perhaps the angel gives way permanently to Jekyll’s devil. Or perhaps Jekyll is simply mistaken: man is not “truly two” but is first and foremost the primitive creature embodied in Hyde, brought under tentative control by civilization, law, and conscience. According to this theory...
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...The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) By Robert L. Stevenson Dr Lanyon’s Narrative COMPREHENSION 1. What was suspicious about the visitor’s behaviour before he entered the house? 2. What emotional state was the visitor in? 3. How did Lanyon react when the visitor touched his arm? 4. Does Lanyon give the visitor what he wants immediately? What eventually convinces him to show his guest the drawer? 5. When the visitor removes the sheet from the drawer, how does he react to the contents? 6. Dr Lanyon’s guest offers him the choice of leaving without witnessing what is about to happen or staying and witnessing a prodigy. Which does Lanyon choose to do and why? 7. What happens to the visitor when he drinks the potion? 8. What is Lanyon’s reaction to the scene he has just witnessed? ANALYSIS 9. At what time does the episode take place? What associations do you make with this particular time? What kind of atmosphere does this time setting create? 10. Find words and expressions in the text which express Lanyon’s repulsion for his visitor. Is his repulsion psychological or physical or both? Give examples. 11. Identify the statement in which Lanyon suggests that his revulsion for the visitor represents something more than personal dislike. 12. Line 3 and 13-18 provide some vague descriptive details of the visitor but for the most part the reader is invited...
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...Strange Case and The Murders: Dividing Human Minds Alexis Osorio DeVry University There can be no up without down, no dark without bright, and no wrong without right; the same idea can be applied to the human mind. There is some sort of duality in the human mind and has been a recurring theme of discussion in many stories. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Strange Case) (Stevenson, 1886) brings the topic of human duality to the forefront by observing it from a third person point of view. Edgar Allan Poe brings up human duality too from a first person point of view in his work The Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders)(1841). Strange Case is about an internal struggle that is externalized, while The Murders shows no struggle between the characters. The former about the concept of self-control, while the latter on mental capacity. Although both stories show it in very different ways, the underlying theme is the same, the duality of the human mind is true and apparent but cannot be separated. It may help to demonstrate the nature of human duality with another concept that is physical but not human, the wave-particle duality. This concept is derived from the nature of light, or electromagnetism. Classically, people, especially scientist, used to believe that waves and particles were two separate entities but after an experiment (the double-slit experiment) found that light behaves as both at the same time. This concept shook science from the very foundation upon...
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...fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Duality of Human Nature Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde centers upon a conception of humanity as dual in nature, although the theme does not emerge fully until the last chapter, when the complete story of the Jekyll-Hyde relationship is revealed. Therefore, we confront the theory of a dual human nature explicitly only after having witnessed all of the events of the novel, including Hyde’s crimes and his ultimate eclipsing of Jekyll. The text not only posits the duality of human nature as its central theme but forces us to ponder the properties of this duality and to consider each of the novel’s episodes as we weigh various theories. Jekyll asserts that “man is not truly one, but truly two,” and he imagines the human soul as the battleground for an “angel” and a “fiend,” each struggling for mastery. But his potion, which he hoped would separate and purify each element, succeeds only in bringing the dark side into being—Hyde emerges, but he has no angelic counterpart. Once unleashed, Hyde slowly takes over, until Jekyll ceases to exist. If man is half angel and half fiend, one wonders what happens to the “angel” at the end of the novel. Perhaps the angel gives way permanently to Jekyll’s devil. Or perhaps Jekyll is simply mistaken: man is not “truly two” but is first and foremost the primitive creature embodied in Hyde, brought under tentative control by civilization, law, and conscience. According to this theory...
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...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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