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
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a study in humanity and shows the variety and potential of human emotion and behaviors. There are many differences between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and yet we learn later that they are the same person through clues that develop in the story. Though most of their personal traits are different, they become more alike as we go along. Perhaps Stevenson’s purpose of writing Jekyll and Hyde was to show that all people have good and
Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is said to be about the duality of man. The book is also about many societal perspectives and tackles a less referenced theme of society’s view on image and reputation. It was written during a time when if you were a woman and had red hair you were told you had an excitable and hot-tempered personality, you were then told to pursue men with dark brown or black hair because he would have a more calm demeanor. Everything during that era was based
The antagonist of the story is Mr. Edward Hyde. He is described as pale, dwarfish and having an overall deformity of features. Mr. Hyde is inclined to a sense of asperity shown in his encounters with others. From a perspective of people he meets, they immediately notice he is not identifiable as welcoming and often gives an impression resulting in their instant dislike. The protagonist of the story is Dr. Henry Jekyll. He is a doctor who has the best interest of his close friends, as well as a genuine
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
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
Specifically, Martin portrays Jekyll on a much more personal level, instead of from the public expectations. Through the voice of Mary - the housemaid, and the events in Jekyll’s house, Martin unveils Jekyll’s increasing desperations.
In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson it tells a story of two different personalities who represent the good and the evil. Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll seem to be very different but are much the same who have different physical, mental and moral differences. The story is about a man named Dr. Jekyll who is able to create a potion that turns him into his evil ego, Mr. Hyde. Earlier on, Mr. Hyde commits serious and suspicious crimes associated with Dr. Jekyll. This leaves Jekyll’s
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the street is indicative of the interchangeable personalities known as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The setting of the street would be an accurate representation of Jekyll and Hyde. The respectable character of Jekyll shows some intriguing differences between himself and his persona, Hyde. In many ways these two dispositions vary showing signs similar to those of someone with a personality disorder, except in this case Jekyll not only changes
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson narrates the story of the respectful and reputable doctor Henry Jekyll who transfigures into Edward Hyde, his hideous alter ego who permits the good doctor’s wild desires while maintaining his reputation in society. Thus, the indulgences of Dr. Jekyll expands beyond the personal areas of his – and Mr. Hyde’s – life, symbolizing the inner struggles, the threats to the respectful gentlemen’s society and their professional world