Comparing Dr. Jeykll And Mr. Hyde

The text of both stories now matter how great a person is there's always a downfall to every action. From Mary shelley's Frankenstein the character victor Frankenstein the monster experiences evil for the first time. In Robert Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person trying to be free but falling into evil. Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde convey a common theme of even the best of people are subject to evil.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two horrific tales of science gone terribly wrong. Shelley?s novel eloquently tells the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a living monster out of decomposed body parts, while Stevenson?s novel describes the account of one, Henry Jekyll, who creates a potion to bring out the pure evil side to himself. Although the two scientists differ in their initial response and action to their creations, there are strong similarities between their raging curiosity to surpass human limitation, as well as their lack of responsibility concerning their actions. These similarities raise an

In the novel “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde” there is a theme of good vs evil. Good being Dr. Jekyll and evil Mr Hyde they have the inner fight between themselves, because they are the same person.Robert louis Stevenson uses Diction,imagery,and details to contrast the character of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Creature murders Frankenstein's younger brother, but he, too, is driven to that course of action by a society that scorns him. The Creature spies on a family in the wilderness and learns human language, customs, and history. He resembles nothing so much as a child or prehistoric man in these episodes, first discovering fire, then bits of language, and finally emotion. He confronts the elderly father of the family and predicts his fate if he is not taken in by them: "I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever" (129). Fulfilling his prophesy, the rest of the family barges in: "Who can describe their horror and consternation upon beholding me?" (131) The Creature's status as pariah differs in one major respect from Hyde's; though they both possess loathsome appearances, the Creature's soul, at the beginning of his life, at least, is as pure

Stevenson makes Hyde seem a monster/animal/supernatural evil in the way that he is described. Hyde clearly represents “the beast in man” and is described in a number of animalistic images. When Utterson confronts him, he is described as “hissing” like a cornered snake; Poole describes him as a “thing” which cries out “like a rat”; he moves “like a monkey” and screams in “mere animal terror.” He is described as “A Juggernaut”, “Like Satan”, “Deformed”, “Dwarfish”, “Hardly human”,

Both Hyde and the Creature choose children for their first victims. According to an eyewitness, Hyde "trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground...He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on

In the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are mentally very different. Dr. Jekyll is a man who is well liked in his community, and is regarded as a good doctor. He helps with charities, and has many friends. Jekyll is intelligent, and well spoken. Mr. Hyde is just the opposite. He is mentally unstable, has a violent streak, and is not friendly or sociable. Most people that know Dr. Jekyll are quite confused by the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde. They are so extremely different mentally that it does not seem likely that the two would be friends.

The novel Frankenstein and the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have similar cases that creates a common theme. In Frankenstein the monster is innocent like a baby and transforms into a beast mentally, because of the way people treated him. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jekyll is a nice man but like all people he has an evil side, he creates an experiment that allows him to change forms and let his evil side out. Both passages show that evil is in everyone, even the best people. In the novel and novella, the authors develop a common theme through the use of characters and events.

Prompt 1: An Exploration of Self Self is a definition of who we are, and that definition can come from two sources: ourselves and those we are close to. The resulting person is usually some combination of the two perceptions of self. In the works The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, this idea of self is explored.

In this essay the two characters that are going to be compared are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very different physically. They are different mentally as well as morally. Dr. Jekyll has different personalities for when he's in public and when he's alone. On the other hand Mr. Hyde pretty much has no heart.

There are reasons, why I consider Dr. Jekyll innocent by all standards of justice. According to the story Dr. Jekyll mentioned himself that he was comprised of two personalities, an evil side and a good side. He thought of the potion as a ways to drink and get out of everyday responsibilities, work and a part of his life he thought boring and to a hidden personality inside of him. In the story Dr. Jekyll clearly mentioned that his alter ego of Dr. Hyde was his confession to life itself, in a letter to Dr. Lanyon. It is because of this I don't feel Dr. Jekyll should be blamed under any circumstance or standard.

Mentally, the two main characters Dr.jekyll and Mr.Hyde were also extensively different. since Dr.Jekyll was a scientist he thought more with reasoning and rationality and acted with caution. The author Stevenson stated in the text, “made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate readiness to evil.” This displays that Mr.Hyde was filled with temper and did not act very

While reading '' The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'' I have noticed that they are total opposite's in the novel. They both don't add up to be the same person. Yet at the end of the novel you learn that they are the same person, there one person added up to two personalities.

Though the books were published almost seven decades apart the monsters in Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde share many similarities: They were both created in laboratories by European scientists for somewhat morally suspect purposes, both were outcasts of society, and murdered characters secondary to their creator. Even in their final days they followed a similar archetype by taking the lives of their creators before ending their own. One should ask the question why these stories have stood the test of time while countless others fall by the wayside.

Hyde. In this way, Jekyll becomes monstrous himself as he wishes to pass on his evil parts into another person. Jekyll’s concoction is a threat to cultural morals and values as it enables someone to set evil free. Consequently, there is no obligation and interest in adhering to any moral standards. In the end, he is a split person, one-half is represented by Jekyll and the other one by Hyde. Stevenson used the different standpoints in the story to create the feeling that Jekyll and Hyde are two different individuals: “‘The Master Hyde, if he were studied,’ thought he [Utterson],’must have secrets of his own; black secrets, by the look of him; secrets compared to which poor Jekyll’s worst would be like sunshine.” (Stevenson 22). Thus, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a story where the line blurs. As Hyde and Jekyll are one and the same person, the reader realises that they together are both moral and immoral and both good and