as well as the realities of the people living within it, such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson. Robert Louis Stevenson suggests that the conflict between Jekyll and Hyde is based on reputation and class, which is a direct reflection of the internal battles that many people had to face in Victorian London. Due to the importance of a good reputation and being in a “higher class”,
comparisons and contrasts about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two characters contrast in some ways. The men have two different personalities. Dr. Jekyll is appeared as a handsome, smart, polite gentleman, admired by many, throwing dinner parties periodically. Dr. Jekyll was never the person who the reader would think was to be a bad person. Dr. Jekyll was not someone who embodies evil. Mr. Hyde on the other hand, was someone who had an evil personality. Mr. Hyde is a deformed, old, twisted man
between Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde is complex, starting with the fact that they both share the same body yet they have physical differences between them. They also have a moral relationship, which is a relationship based in trustworthy that one has to another human being characterized in terms of any abstraction other than trust and common protection of each other’s body; in this case the same body. Dr. Jekyll also expresses a kind of affection towards Hyde as a father to a son, Dr. Jekyll being
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1886 shocking its stern and righteous Victorian audience. The novella takes a journey to look onto the lower class underground society that shows the immediate balancing side to the upper classes strict and proper society. The Victorian society was intent on repressing thought and behavior that they would consider barbarous. In restraining natural instincts and liberation to experience life, society bred
“Dr. Jekyll is not so much a man of conflicted personality as a man suffering from the ravages of addiction. He is a man of “destructive attachments,” a man victimized by a chemical dependency that is aggravated by a pre-existing psychopathology and maladaptive behaviors which follows his repeated consumption of the undisclosed psychoactive substance that turns him into Edward Hyde” (Wright 254). Jekyll’s dual personality and internal confusion stems from his addiction to the nonspecific drug/elixir
For instance, in the literary classic entitled The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll has secret compulsions of committing dark and sinister acts of evil. He eliminates these compulsions by developing a potion that strangely transforms him into his evil alter ego named Mr. Edward Hyde. Now, Jekyll enjoys the pleasure and freedom of being wicked brings. The infamous antagonist, Mr. Edward Hyde, is arguably the most frightening fictional character due to his
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both qualities reside in everyone. Dr. Jekyll is an upstanding and austere man while his counterpart, Mr. Hyde, is a dwarfish fiend. Dr. Jekyll chose to explore his bad side after inventing a potion; one that had originally been invented to eliminate his evil side but it was later used for the opposite. He became addicted to the potion because it allowed him to explore these evil urges. He found in the end that this desire for evil was bound to devour him. Dr. Jekyll
Explore the ways in which Stevenson adheres to the conventions of one of the following genres: Gothic Horror Traditional Gothic artists are fascinated by the duality of human existence. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of many texts in the late-Victorian era of London that is written in the Gothic horror genre. With the persona-changing potions, murders, and eventual suicide in the novel are all examples of the horror elements at work in the novel. Stevenson adheres to