Stevenson uses the theme of the sinister to warn his readers of the dangers of using new technology without great care.…
Stevenson continues to present Hyde as a disturbing character using the surroundings. An example of this is the back door to Jekyll’s home; it is a good reflection of the personality and appearance of Hyde. ‘Shabby and dilapidated‘. This is related to Hyde’s description of ‘deformed and evil ‘. This is a very powerful effect used by Stevenson to show the disturbing character of Hyde.…
Mr.Hyde has a persona of being rude and evil. For example, on page 4 Mr.Hyde tramples a 8 year old girl and has no remorse about it. I also feel as if Mr.Hyde is both a persona and shadow that Dr.Jekyll hides behind. Dr.Jeykll has this evil shadow that transforms into Mr.Hyde so that he can be that side of himself that he hides away. He might of wanted to create Mr.Hye so he could have…
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in the Victorian Era by Robert Louis Stevenson, this novella dwells into the concept of the duality of human nature. The narrative is extremely fragmented structure due to the use of multiple narrators and through the use of mixed media, in the form of letters and accounts. The inconsistent structure conveys that of a gothic detective story; which were very popular in the Victorian era. Victorian London at the time was the largest city in the world, with a total population of around 4 million people in the 1880’s, and was one of the first cities to become completely urbanised. For the first time, more people were living in towns and cities than in the country. This forced them to increase the interiority of their lives, through having little involvement with the society outside their blacked out windows. This made it a perfect setting for mystery novels like ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’.…
One of the ways Stevenson portrays Hyde’s character is through his appearance. In the opening chapter when he is first sighted by Enfield he is described as ‘Some Damned Juggernaut ‘, as well as ‘not like man’. This puts across a huge sense of deformity in his figure and posture. Just from the word damned we the reader can deduce that he is evil and malicious. This suggests he is condemned or doomed to eternal punishment, beyond just this life and into the afterlife. We can further analyse that the term ‘juggernaut’ makes us see him as overpowering, destructive and warmongering.…
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he uses setting and characterization to emphasize the idea that a person will act a way if they are expected to. In his novel, the character of Dr. Jekyll alludes to the mostly good people. Mr. Hyde, however, specifically shows the bad people in society. For these two characters, the constantly changing gothic setting of this novel and the different extremes between light and dark represent their characterizations.…
In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the theme of “Wealth can breed carelessness” using the literary devices and/or techniques of irony, flashback, and point of view. Throughout the story, Nick Carraway exposes the affluent main characters through their hideous actions and words. Whether to them it is virtuous or not, the result was completely repulsive. First of all, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the theme of “Wealth can breed carelessness” using irony. According to the text, when Jordan is driving with Nick, “‘They’ll keep out of my way,’ she insisted. ‘It takes two to make an accident.’ ‘Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.’ ‘I hope I never will,’ she answered. ‘I hate careless people. That’s why I like…
Hyde was his bad side and his pure side, which everyone came to know, wasn’t what Jekyll really wanted. He wanted to let Hyde out and to do so he had to take drugs, like Sonny did. Jekyll’s surface was a proper man but his true identity was what lied beneath him and what he allowed to surface when he conjured up his potion. Letting out this carnage side made Jekyll feel alive, with no remorse of what he was doing. The aliveness he felt was the disregard of his culture and their rules, and this is where he found himself happy. The disobeying Hyde was Jekyll’s true identity and how he really wanted to feel. Have you ever one day been faced with the opportunity to break cultures rules and done it? Did you feel exhilarated? Ones identity will never change. When they figure out what the true inner person is that, whether its a naughty person or a great person is what surfaces when the person is alone or set with a straining situation. The Jekyll side is what culture wanted to see, but the true identity of Jekyll was the disobeying side of…
Summary: Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional life, he is a medical doctor, scientist and academician. He theorizes that in each man is a good side and an evil side which can be separated into two. In doing so, the evil side can be controlled and the good side can live without worry, in combination leading to the betterment of society. In his experiments, he uses himself as the subject to test his hypothesis. His evil side, who he coins Mr. Hyde, escapes into London, and terrorizes party-girl Ivy Pierson. Jekyll, aware of Hyde's goings-on, decides to stop his experiments because of the suffering he has caused Ivy. What Jekyll is unaware of is how ingrained Hyde is in Jekyll's life.…
Victorian London represents civilisation which is at the forefront of new scientific theory and progressive ideas. Declining church attendance and contemporary ideas such as the Darwinian theory of evolution in the mid- to late nineteenth century may have indicated to Stevenson (who was brought up in a religious household and had a minister among his immediate family) that the ideals of culture and civilisation were becoming further estranged from traditional Christianity. A sense of danger and uncertainty is certainly present in the London of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; the fact that Jekyll, who possesses ‘every mark of capacity and kindness’, and the ‘pure evil’ Hyde are a single unit represents the unpredictability of the shifting times. Stevenson’s dissatisfaction with what he saw in London may be a reason for his presentation of it in the novella as a city of murky conscience and often indecipherable…
The author uses Hyde to represent evil in the world and how it is taking over. Hyde is beating carew to death and he likes the feeling. Hyde is totally insane “ the spirit of hell awoke in [him] and raged....…
Furthermore the hissing is a function of a snake, and as snakes are seen as evil and devious animals also because of Adam and eve, and temptation it fits the perfect description for Mr Hyde. Also Hyde represents the evil side of Jekyll dual personality, and Jekyll is the good side, and Hyde is known through He also strikes those who witness him as being deformed -- "colourless and dwarfish" and simian like. He is both monster and shadows another self not only for Jekyll but for all the I assume upright Victorian bachelors of the story who recognize his deformity and for who he becomes both mischievous sprite and deaths knell.…
While waiting in the courtyard, stalking Hyde, Utterson touches Hyde’s shoulder and asks him for affirmation of his name. As Utterson touches Hyde’s shoulder, “Hyde[shrinks]back with a hissing intake of breath” (Stevenson 12). The comparison of Hyde to a snake represents the devil. Snakes also signify deceiving and unwelcoming characteristics much like Hyde always displays a distorted expression. Not only is Hyde being compared to an animal, he is also being…
This passage is taken from quite earlier on in the novel, where the reader is informed of the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, where Hyde, yet again, has demonstrated unconventional behaviour. In the text, Hyde is seen as growing in power as Dr Jekyll ceases and you can see that this throughout the text and this passage . In the end, it is explained why this act of Satan is done, when Jekyll turns into Hyde permanently. Stevenson makes us feel the evilness of Hyde by using violence, the setting, syntax and the comparisons of Hyde to Sir Danvers.…
New town, new school, and most importantly a new family. It's all the same to me, I've done this a million times before, so what was so different about this time? Why was I so nervous about a fresh start once again? That's the thing. I don't know why, but I was. Walking out of the foster group home out into the parking lot, and seeing the new family, it all was too familiar for me. But this time, this time something was different. It felt different. And I had no idea why. Until…