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    The book, Jekyll and Hyde has a gloomy mood. There are a lot of things that make Jekyll and Hyde have a gloomy mood. The three main things that I will be talking about are imagery, diction, and details. In Jekyll and Hyde, imagery is used a lot and creates a gloomy mood. One example of imagery is,” Although a fog rolled over the city in the early hours”(68). This makes it gloomy because you can see fog on the ground and that makes it hard to see so that. makes the the feeling gloomy. Another example

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    Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

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    Superegos doctor A Man is not truly one but, but two,’’ wrote Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson wrote about a man with two sides of him. The evil side that kill and hurt people, and the good side that his well respected for in his community. But, the evil side seem to be stronger and it’s taking over him. Everyone get their two sides even myself, I got a side that if someone did something unpleasant to me I won’t let it go I feel like I have to do something

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    At the time when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Jekyll and Hyde, there were many contexts that might have influenced his way of writing. Therefore, to understand more about the book, I’m going to give out some contextual influences and explain how it influenced what Stevenson wrote. During the time when he wrote the book, gothic was a very popular genre that had been very likely to be written in. This genre often attempts to unmask the horrific aspect of human nature. It pictures the human condition

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    The dehumanisation of creations is not only influenced by their lack of names, and creators are also dehumanised to an extent. The hideousness of the Creature and Hyde influences their dehumanisation as society cannot be seen to accept those who are deformed or evil. “Seeing how ugly and ‘hideous’ his creation is once he has animated it, Victor abandons it in horror. Oddly enough, his is the only stated reason for Victor’s rejection of his child.” Özdemir suggests that Frankenstein only abandons

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    Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

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    Alice Kariuki English, 101 Prof: Ted Wayland Essay 1 Roughdraft July/ 15/ 2015 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story were written in the 19th century in London. In this book we understand the conflict between the good character of Dr. Jekyll and completely evil character from M r. Hyde, who fight for control of their shared body. As the readers, read the story there is a big concern about homosexuality, murder and the duality of human nature. Their personal characters where by Dr. Jekyll is known to be

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    Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by a scottish author named Robert Louis Stevenson and was first published in 1886. The book is about a British lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who begins to investigate the strange occurences of a Mr. Edward Hyde only to find out that it was an evil version of his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll. The story begins as Uttersons “ distant Kinsman”, Richard Enfield tells of how he had watched a little man; who was “ the usual cut and dry apothcary

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    Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the character Hyde is a transfiguring of the character Jekyll, the degenerate metamorphosis of a high-class man. Hyde is an animalistic man, he is an archetype of atavism, an evolutionary throwback. Hyde is the pinnacle of Victorian fear within every aspect as well, he is a low-class man who represents pure evil, his actions revolve around Victorian horror from prostitution to committing sinister crimes in the silence of the night. Hyde is an uncanny

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    Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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    develops a drug that releases the evil side in himself, thus becoming Mr. Hyde. Along with his behavior, Dr. Jekyll's appearance changes as well. He transforms into something more violent looking. Unlike Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde has no conscience. Mr. Hyde has no restrictions, no boundaries; he is free to do what he pleases. Mr. Hyde returns to the music

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    Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are indeed the same person. Even though they have different personalities and look different, at the end of the day they are the same person. Basically Edward Hyde is a subset of Henry Jekyll, he is all his evil manifested into one person. His alter ego, Hyde, is just the embodiment of Jekyll's evil nature. The only thing that Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have in common is that they are the same person. But other than being the same person, they have nothing else in common

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    Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde consists of reputation, good vs. evil and damage control. In other words, Utterson tirelessly works to prevent his good friend Dr. Jekyll from being dragged into the horrid affairs of Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jekyll goes to the greatest of lengths to prevent his Hyde identity from being discovered, in order to avoid anyone knowing of his somewhat questionable scientific work and morally despicable behavior. Much of the novel is based on the characters reputations and how they have

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