Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Essay

According to Liu Hongli(刘红利 2011 )，Robert Louis Stevenson is a Victorian great romantic writers. His plot is compact, suspense, to seize the reader's eye. Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is his masterpiece and the hero Doctor Jekyll becomes dual personality of the artistic incarnation. Stevenson’s life is a mirror of that time period. Though he born in a religious atmosphere of middle-class family, he hated all kinds of taboos. His love life is also aggressive. He fell in love with a prostitute and then he

Jekyll upholds his reputation through the creation of Hyde. As a well-established and respected man in society, Jekyll finds himself overpowered by his desires, which can easily destroy his reputation. Thus, he undergoes an experiment to split himself into two, in an attempt to isolate his two natures of good and evil. Through this, Jekyll’s darker side, Mr. Hyde is formed and acts as the outlet for Jekyll’s desires. Upon the creation of Hyde, Jekyll is slowly succumbing to his evil side and disapproves

and good in Mr.Hyde and Dr.Jekyll. Hyde was portrayed as the antagonist in the novel. When utterson finally found Hyde in Jekyll's courtyard he saw that “ Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity… had a borne himself with a sort of a murderous mixture of timidity and boldness” (sevenson 14). This show how utterson and all people feel around Hyde. There is always a feel of deformity around him which makes people uncomfortable around Hyde. Dr.Jekyll is portrayed as a nice man

Response (Thematic Concept): This quote shows that Jekyll does his own experiments. Adding on top to the fact that he does this in his laboratory which no one dares to enter, further proves that he is Mr. Hyde. He uses a powder of some sort to turn into the juggernaut figure. This can connect back to the thematic concept of the limits of science because of how someone would want to stretch beyond the limits. Jekyll wants to achieve his goal so badly, he would give up his morality and the respect

Good vs. Evil In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and in the Cherokee myth, there is a clear idea of duality between good and evil. For example, Dr. Henry Jekyll explains to Mr. Utterson that “man is not truly one, but truly two” (Stevenson 74). Also, in the Cherokee myth the grandfather informs his grandson that life “is a terrible fight between two wolves”. Both men are saying that every person is not all inherently good or all inherently evil.

what is created has never been created before. Without a guaranteed safe outcome, how can an inventor be sure what they have produced is without a flaw? The answer is simple; they cannot. This is why the monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Mr. Hyde in The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Stevenson, is so unstable and causes so much trauma. These novels stem off the idea of a creator and creature relationship gone awry. Both creators were too entertained in creating things without

weaknesses; however, the real question one must ask is which side of the spectrum is more capable of influencing humanity. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a wealthy and well-respected doctor by the name of Henry Jekyll, who believes that man is not one but two separate people, constructs a potion which unearths his inner evil (Mr. Edward Hyde), and in the end is engulfed by the strength of his malevolent persona.

Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the idea of morality is being expressed through their characters and the situations they are being through within both stories. In fact, there is a connection between the two texts in terms of the theme of mortality, and yet it is a significant connection. More important, yet debatable, it is clear in both novels, that although characters such as Dr. Jekyll in Robert Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Marlow

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a story rife with the imagery of a troubled psyche. Admittedly taken largely from Stevenson’s dreams, it undoubtably sheds light on the author’s own hidden fears and desires. Written at the turn of the 19th Century, it also reflects the psychology of society in general at the same time when Sigmund Freud was setting about to do the same thing. While Freud is often

Stevenson’s novel the Jekyll-Hyde transformation is a physical one. After consuming a potion, Dr. Jekyll seems to separate the evil within himself into another personality all together, While Dorian Grey goes about doing as he pleases, free from the responsibilities of his actions, due to his mystical portrait. Dorian Grey’s portrait prevents him from suffering the mortal consequences for his deeds, including the natural process of aging. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde there is not only