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    diction, and details help create the mood. Robert Louis Stevenson got the idea for this book from a dream, he then wrote down his idea. But his wife did not like his first copy so he burnt it and then wrote the second version in three days. So in this novel, Dr, Jekyll and Mr, Hyde the imagery, diction, and details help to create a very horrifying mood. The imagery in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde helps to create a horrifying mood in many different ways. First Stevenson says “... half full of blood-red liquor”(104)

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    Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson as protagonists overcome obstacles created by conflict, effectively developing characters and revealing their strengths and weaknesses. In Frankenstein, Victor’s creation and abandonment of his ghastly creation causes turmoil for both Frankenstein and Victor. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll’s realization that his alter ego is representative

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    and Mr. Hyde the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, uses doors to convey the reader of a feeling of mystery and trouble. “There is no other door, and nobody goes in or out of that one, but once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure.” (Stevenson 13) The door creates a feeling of mystery and causes the reader to become curious about the reason only Mr.Hyde can use the door. “Blackmail house is what I call that place with the door in consequence.” (Stevenson 12) Stevenson associates the door with

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    How suspense is built up in ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th November 1850. He wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886, with that 40,000 copies of the book were sold in the first six months. This was designed to mirror the Victorian secret and based on good and evil. Stevenson later died in 1894 in Samoa. Stevenson used the contemporary setting of Victorian London to write his gothic horror novel. The streets with the gas lamps were the perfect

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    Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

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    an intelligent Scottish novelist named Robert Louis Stevenson. He uses technological ideas to develop a plot with powerful and realistic characters. Two main characters that play a major part in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson. They are extremely good friends who live in London during the late nineteenth-century. Dr. Jekyll is described as an expert physician, while Mr. Utterson is a middle-aged lawyer. Stevenson was able to establish two strong characters

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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Literary Analysis Essay The book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a thrilling mystery written by Robert Louis Stevenson about a man who wants two lives, one good, and one evil. In Robert Louis Stevenson's mystery novela, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, physical descriptions of Jekyll and Hyde are used to reflect good and evil. Dr. Jekyll wants to live two lives, so he creates a potion to create Hyde, a purely evil, dwarfish, ugly, devilish form

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    The book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, a book that tackles the interesting concept of duality in personality, poses an interesting question. “Should Dr. Jekyll be held responsible for the crimes of Mr. Hyde?” Dr. Jekyll should most definitely be held responsible for the crimes of Mr. Hyde, but should not necessarily be punished for them. The reasons for this begin with Dr. Jekyll’s lack of direct control of Mr. Hyde’s actions, and cannot be seen as anything

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    Robert Louis Stevenson’s Novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, good vs. evil is the biggest theme. This story is seen as a metaphor about the good and evil in everyone, and the struggle of the two sides in everyone’s personality. Since Hyde starts to take over, I could argue that evil is stronger than good. But, Mr. Hyde ends up dying in the end of the story, so I could claim that the good of someone can overcome the evil in you. Overall, Stevenson is trying to communicate with the

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    “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” is a gothic horror novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the Victorian era. The novella follows a well-respected doctor - Henry Jekyll - and his struggle between good and evil when he takes a potion and becomes Mr Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson - the author of the novella “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”- was born in Edinburgh in 1850 and died at the young age of forty-four. He wrote the book in 1886. As a child he was very close

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    After reading and watching the first half of , The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, By Robert Louis Stevenson, there was a depiction of the same storyline, but includes many differences of how the novella tells the story versus how the film tells the story. In the first scene of the film their are people crying and the movement of the film is in slow motion, which in contrast sets the mood for the film considering that the individuals crying are crying because of the death of Dr. Jekyll.

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