Upon reading the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson I would not have guessed there being such a controversy or existing reason behind simply the names of the characters involved. With such a dark path and background foreshadowing the novel I could have seen some sort of controversy in how the story may have been portrayed and understood, but there is an audience of readers that believe that there is something more behind the book. Digging deep within the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde it proves to me that there is reason to believe that the names of the characters were chosen for a specific reason. The three characters that stood out when reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would be
One of the key differences in how these works show the struggle between good and evil is that the main conflict throughout Dracula is a completely different type altogether compared to Jekyll and Hyde. In Dracula, most of the conflict is person-vs-person interaction, while in Jekyll and Hyde, most of the conflict is internal between the personalities of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Near the beginning of Dracula, once Jonathan Harker realizes that Count Dracula is not a normal nobleman, he attempts to convince the Count to allow him to leave earlier than scheduled. The Count appears to comply, leading Jonathan to the door and exercising his ever formal, unnerving diction. This ruse successfully convinces Jonathan and he walks to the door.
Peoples actions are influenced by current times. In general, one's surroundings affect how they behave. In Robert Louis Stevenson's mystery novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Victorian Era influenced the characters actions. Society reacts in certain ways depending on the situation. Utterson goes to visit Lanyon because he hasn't been out in days.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde comprise of notoriety, great versus shrewdness and harm control. At the end of the day, Utterson resolutely attempts to keep his closest companion Dr. Jekyll from being dragged into the repulsive issues of Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jekyll experiences the best of lengths to keep his Hyde personality from being found, so as to maintain a strategic distance from anybody knowing about his to some degree flawed logical work and ethically wretched conduct. A great part of the novel depends on the characters ' notorieties, how they need to keep up a decent open picture, as they are high society individuals. The novel happens in Victorian England and the principle characters are for the most part male individuals from high society
The novel, The Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the year 1866 is about a physician, Henry Jekyll who creates a potion that brings his evil side to life. The potion makes Dr.Jekyll look a little different and act different, he even names his evil side. He names it Edward Hyde, or Mr. Hyde. He names it Hyde (same as hide) because it is his hidden side. This novel is relevant to today’s readers because it presents the issue that was running through the 20th century and still present today in the 21st century.
In order to maintain his level of respect, Dr. Jekyll had to hide indiscretions form his youth by experimenting and creating his alternate persona, Mr. Hyde. In his novel, Stevenson presents Hyde as sexual aspect
I think what Stevenson is trying to teach in this book is that there is a notion between good and bad in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it was published in 1886 and it was written after a dream that Stevenson had. The story mainly is about a horror but has a slight touch of mystery trailing behind it. This is powerful story that has a hidden outlook on life and society. There is one theme that just kind of sticks out from the others but there are also more themes but you would have to read through the lines to find the smaller ones, I would say that the main theme of the story would have to be duality in humans, this means that we have all hidden something extreme in us whether it is being something extremely good or something extremely evil. Robert Louis Stevenson decided to magnify on the extreme evil in the story, the story had been set in Victorian England where society was strictly disciplined were people had been expected to be middle class or upper class
Stevenson introduced both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde without giving names of these two and before both characters were introduced to each other. “For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too” (Stevenson
Michael Ray Dr. Murray The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide 1/30/18 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide is a very mysterious novel. By having a mysterious novel gives us the clue to the mysterious names; Dr, Jekyll, Mr. Hide, and Mr. Utterson, as well as Mr. Poole. The mystery to this novel is that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same people.
Within the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, there stands a strange case of good versus evil. However, this story has no great villain or even a valiant hero, it has only a man fighting with his vices and dark urges and desires, which grow darker, more morbid and perverted at the novel goes on. Then, as a means to free himself of such darkness and “evil,” the man creates an antidote or rather cocktail of drugs to help him in such matter. Only problem being, the cocktail separates his psyche in two and with the two sides released from each other. The darkness the bad is allowed to grow and lash out unattended and unblocked.
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground” (3). Mr. Hyde ran over a young girl late into the night without feeling any guilt. Robert Louis Stevenson shows the archetypal theme of good and evil exists in all people in the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. Good and evil exist in all people and we struggle with these two forces. This is shown through Jekyll because he is good with a little bad in him, this is also shown through Hyde, who is evil with some good, and it is lastly shown with the lab because it brings good and evil into Jekyll’s life.
Dr. Jekyll is seemingly good, kind, and benevolent; while is not purely good he is a moral gentleman. He started his experiment so he could totally separate the bad and the good in himself into two separate beings. He did not succeed, however, for Dr. Jekyll is plagued by the feeling that he wants to become evil again, thus he wants to become Mr. Hyde. It is important to note that Mr. Hyde is completely evil; he has no goodness in him, in contrast to Dr. Jekyll who was a troubled mix. Mr. Hyde feels no remorse for any evil he has done and actually feels elated when he does commit a moral sin.
Even though they are different in physical appearance, they are close. Dr. Jekyll is a “well known, large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast”. While Mr. Hyde, was a much younger man than Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll is a friend of Mr. Hyde, and this is evident because Mr. Hyde was put into Dr. Jekyll’s will, so you can say that these two are friends. Mr.Hyde,however, does not have many friends.
To conclude with, I want to mention something I read in these days in the Oxford Dictionaries Blog. There are all sort of topics, and the other day I typed “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. What I found was four little articles, one of them, called ‘7 language facts you didn’t know about Robert Louis Stevenson’, seemed the most interesting one. One of these 7 facts was that after the noun ‘lawyer’, the most used word, with 66 incidences was the word ‘hand’. It was also added that the scholar Richard Dury said that the hand is a key figure in the text because it could be interpreted as a manifestation of personality and identity.
Good Vs. Evil or Good and Evil Would it be ideal if every choice someone made was considered to be good? Imagine a world without rules. A society without a moral compass. What would it be like?
In 1886 the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was released and became one of the most popular Stevenson's work. It was a huge success all around the world, bringing a lot of distinct aspects from the Victorian Era, such as conflicts between social classes; the influence of religion in people's life; the importance of people's reputation; conflicts