Two novels

“A man is not truly one, but truly two” this is ideology from the character Dr. Jekyll in the famous Victorian Gothic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson’s novel touched upon the dual nature of humankind, and helped the Victorian era understand the evolution in scientific inquiry and technological advances of a resistant audience. Stevenson’s novel reflects his view on the theory of evolution engaged by scientist of Victorian Era, and the

Compare the use of “secrets” with in the two main characters of the both novels - Victor Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll (including Mr Hyde) Both the novels are based around secrets. Victor and Dr Jekyll both have a big secret that happens in the novel. Both the main characters have a thirst for knowledge leading to their biggest secrets occurring. Their scientific experiments don’t go as planned and these novels teach us as the reader you can’t keep secrets as the truth will always come out. Victor

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book about a lawyer, Mr. Utterson, trying to understand the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Since Mr. Utterson is interviewing people to understand Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the novel revolves around them. The two characters are completely different which makes them having a trustworthy relationship is strange for Mr. Utterson to comprehend. Like all people, the characters have mental differences, physical, differences, and moral differences.

narrator of the book. Utterson is a lawyer, and a man in which all the characters confide throughout the novel. He is also a personal friend to nearly all of the other characters, and helps crack the case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As an old friend of Jekyll, he recognizes the changes and strange occurrences of Jekyll and Hyde, and resolves to further investigate the relationship between the two men. He is perhaps the most circumspect, respected, and rational character in the book, and it is therefore

Jekyll-Hyde relationship is discovered. Jekyll asserts that “he is one man but truly he is two,” and he imagines the human soul as the battleground for an “angel” and a “villain,” each struggling for mastery. Through these experiments, he brings Mr. Hyde into being, finding a way to convert himself in such a way that he fully becomes his shadier half. Perhaps Jekyll is simply mistaken: man is not “truly two” but is first and foremost the original creature alive in Hyde, brought under tentative control

Peter Hühn, a professor of English Literature, defines detective fiction as, “The plot of the classical detective novel comprises two basically separate stories—the story of the crime (which consists of action) and the story of the investigation (which is concerned with knowledge)” (252). At its rudimentary level, Suki Kim’s novel The Interpreter follows a similar structure. She presents her protagonist, Suzy Park, as “the detective” to find the “knowledge,” to her own personal mystery. Suzy is a

plays a huge impact on the shaping of the novel and the characters. Most of the dramatic actions within the story consists of preventing the downfall of the two main “characters”, or in other words it is Utterson partaking in damage control to prevent Dr. Jekyll being brought into the horrid actions of Mr. Hyde. The themes within the novel play right into the actions of the characters and help dramatize the downfall of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Throughout the novel a tension between the world of reason

Until the end of the story, the two seem nothing alike. Stevenson uses this marked contrast to make his point: every human being contains opposite forces within him or her, an alter ego that hides behind one's front. Correspondingly, to understand fully the significance of either Jekyll or Hyde, we must consider the two as looking at one single character. When viewed separately, neither is a very interesting personality. It is their relationship that gives the novel its power. Despite the seeming

The novel, The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louise Stevenson is about a hard working devouted doctor with dual personalities living in the Victorian Era. Dr. Jekyll seemed like a man who had it all but yearned for more liberty. In search of this, he created a potion in his laboratory that brought out the evil alter ego within him, Mr. Hyde. While they shared the same body the two personalities were very different both physically and mentally. Dr. Jekyll was

unsettling streets of Victorian London in the 19th century, which creates a chilling setting in the novel. The importance of setting is that it reflects most of the major themes of the novel like the duality of man, mystery, and good versus evil. Stevenson uses a lot of realistic and imaginative description to set up the mood and atmosphere. Gothic seems to be also one of the major themes in the novel which tend to interlink with secrets like Dr. Jekyll’s connection to Mr. Hyde. Settings like the mysterious