C3C Daniel Payne Maj Lynn English 211 5 May 2017 Red or Blue Pill The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel that describes the daring dilemma of a distinguished doctor and a disturbed, indescribable demon that denotes the dark desires of Dr. Jekyll. Throughout the story, decency is doubled with degradation; abandon with drawback; honesty with deceit. As such, Stevenson notions with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that dual nature not only of one man but also of society in general. that both good and evil resides within everyone and affirms that if one tries to deny their desires, rather than acknowledging them as a fragment of their entirety, said desires will likely manifest themselves in a magnified, overwhelming manner.
Dr. Jekyll is a reputed man who can physically alter his body and turn into a short and small looking man. The altered form has a name, Mr. Hyde and the intentions of this man is a complete summoning of the suppressed evil and the dark side of Dr. Jekyll. Whenever Dr. Jekyll needs to turn into Mr. Hyde, he takes a certain salt that Dr. Jekyll invented with years of research. Dr. Jekyll one time involuntarily turns into Mr. Hyde far away from his house. Mr. Hyde is already infamous among the police and the public for the crimes he has committed.
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde As the years fly by, people grow older and change more and more every day, but none like Robert Louis Stevenson's character of Dr. Jekyll. In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the main character, Dr. Jekyll, goes through many changes, including personality, sociability, and later in the novella even transformation. These changes show the human desire to pursue pleasure when craving innocence and to be free of consequence, but ultimately can suffer from the result of it. When Dr. Jekyll is first introduced, he is described as a very nice guy; however, as the novella progresses, his personality turns for the worse. At the beginning of chapter 3, Dr. Jekyll hosts a dinner party for five or six men.
J and H Our world will always be filled with good and evil. This concept is portrayed in many ways. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s mystery novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll’s actions are influenced by the Victorian Era.
Alex Polzer Mr. Pelucacci English 1/10/22 In the novella “ Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Robert Louis Stevenson describes how people can turn good to evil. Dr. Jekyll, one of the main characters, begins the novella as a well respected man, but then he is consumed by evil. The novella shows how just one little mistake changes Dr. Jekyll for the rest of his entire life. To begin with Dr. Jekyll is described as a wealthy and well respected man but then slowly changes to evil.
In 2010, Laurence and Rankin published articles that contain similarities. Laurence (2010) covered Jekyll’s desire to do drugs and homosexuality. Jekyll lost control over his evil side because he could not resist the need for higher dosages of drugs. Rankin (2010) went into the details of the time period and what factors contributed to Robert Stevenson’s interest of the dual nature of humans. Padnick (2012) inspect a side that many overlooks, Hyde is Jekyll.
“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.
Battles with our inner self exist in everyday life, whether it is an emotional, spiritual or mental issue. These types of struggles are common in each person’s according to their conviction of life. In a recently study made by the University of Indiana proof that a highly percent of the population is afraid to be themselves or to act as they want to, by the repression they receive of society. Individuals work hard to establish and organize their life so society can accept them or can’t criticize them, causing an abuse in the essence of each human being. This obstacle of life is common since humanity exists and to show a clear example of this struggle Robert Louis Stevenson explained us in his classic novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the consequences of this issue where he uses personification and simile to show that repression builds a conflict between the public appearance and the inner essence of Dr. Jekyll.
“Man is not truly one, but truly two” It is very difficult to lead a respectable life in society without both the good and bad sides of one's personality surfacing, or so is the case with Dr. Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Dr. Jekyll recognized within himself two warring personalities, and in the name of science, discovered how to isolate these personalities to create two, distinct individuals with almost opposite natures. Jekyll himself remaining genuine and good, and a friend to many. While his opposite personality, that had taken the form of Edward Hyde, was unruly and mischievous, quite simply, he was the evil side of Jekyll. Jekyll struggles with trying to manage living two, single natured lives, but ultimately
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.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” because the story takes place in Victorian England we see that the characters have no room for expression of emotions or violence. Everything they do is secret, so the more Dr Jekyll is repressed, the more he wants to be Mr Hyde. The original characteristics of Henry Jekyll are reflected as “...life of effort, virtue, and control” (pg. 172) because, most of his life his vice activities were maintained a secret. According to Jekyll, when evil is separated into one body, one will not know right from wrong because there is no conscious in a being of complete evil which was Hyde for
Dr. Jekyll is a secret sadist that concocted Mr. Hyde used as a façade to carry out the doctor's hidden pleasures in a form of a nightly excursions, going on a sprawl committing heinous crimes. Since Hyde is non-existent meaning Jekyll drinks a potion transforms into Hyde commit crime drink potion again to revert back to Jekyll thus, Dr. Jekyll can live a life without worry of a having a conscious guilt for “Hyde alone, that was guilty”(53),moreover, the doctor needs to keep his credits towards the public as a respected doctor. Having Hyde take all the blame Dr. Jekyll can act on however he desires without the worry of consequences. An example of this act, was when Hyde mercilessly, assaulted an innocent young girl in a an alley for the sake
The description of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde portrays the theme of duality itself. The title Stevenson gives to Jekyll is “Dr”, which gives a impression to readers that Jekyll is an respectable man and is part of an elite society. In the third chapter, Jekyll is described as “an large well-made smooth-faced man of fifty,with something of an stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness”. Stevenson uses only a few words to unfold Jekyll's personality. The “smooth-faced” creates an notion of unreadable external features, thus creating mystery and foreshadowing his revelation.
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) was from a prestigious upper class Scottish family. He grew up in peaceful home and with true love from his parents. He was a poet and his famous poetry collection: A Child's Garden Verses (1885) is permanently reprinted. His popularity is long lasting and his writing about the south pacific sea islands expanded the imagination of millions of British Readers giving them insight into far lands and exotic societies.
