Jennifer Peoples
Mr. Marine
Honors English 10B, Period 3
1 May 2013
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Throughout the world today people are judged based on their physical features as well as their commitment to society. This leads to a clouded view of people’s true personalities as well as social judgment that can cause people to become emotionally unbalanced and tentative, searching for change. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a very controversial mystery novel that takes place in Industrial England. (expand lead and summary) It tells the story of Dr. Jekyll, a youthful doctor testing the limits of scientific experimentation, and his skeptical yet faithful lawyer Mr. Utterson. Throughout Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson utilizes the theme of the effects of society on an individual through the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who likewise search for change within themselves throughout the novel in order to pertain to the social standards that were held within that time period. (clearer) Stevenson uses the idea of judgments and social boundaries among peers excessively through the text in order to show as the storyline develops how a person can be physically and emotionally changed through the ideas and thoughts passing through the surrounding citizen’s heads, along with someone’s own judgments of themselves and how they fit in among society and the social norms. Within the first interaction that Mr. Utterson has with Mr. Hyde, there are judgments passed from Mr. Utterson that remain with Mr. Hyde and help to describe his personality throughout the book.(this quote or p.15) “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