so realistic that I could not distinguish the reality from fantasy. She is scratching her body and has dermatophagia (eating her own skin)‚ yet‚ because of delusions‚ these scratches and wounds result in a bloody scene. Her transformation to the Black Swan‚ the dark side of her‚ was pretty violent. That sensitive girl turns into a cold-blooded killer. I thought she really kills Lily‚ but she just experiences a psychosis. She even harms her mother. She has anorexia‚ so she made me feel stressed and
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First‚ by looking at the both book’s setting‚ they both explored evil by using a difference of the theme of evil. In the LOTF‚ it starts the story in the middle of war where atomic warfare happens. Piggy says‚ “Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead” this suggested that the war is happening at that time and by usage of atomic bomb‚ most of the people have been dead and they became separated from the outside world and this shows that the children have no parents
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he has many friends. His lovability may stem from the only interesting quality that Stevenson gives him—namely‚ his willingness to remain friends with someone whose reputation has suffered. This loyalty leads him to plumb the mystery that surrounds Jekyll. Utterson represents the perfect Victorian gentleman. He consistently seeks to
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big role in society. With that‚ Stevenson wrote his famous story “the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in 1886. What so significant about the story is because he based during the Victorian era. A time which social class and reputation was important to Victorians. Also‚ around the publication of the book was when the Victorian era was still going around. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” showed and demonstrated the true value on social class. In addition‚ how the Victorian era
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The song "Façade from the 1996 musical Jekyll and Hyde displays the way people mask themselves in order to become someone who they are not and to display a balance of good and evil; these same ideas are discussed in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. An example of people displaying a mix of good and evil in "Façade" is where the song discusses that society plays a game where everyone is‚ "Actin’ a bizzare charade- / While playing the saint!" ("Façade 20-21). The use of the term "saint" in
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Introduction The purpose of my essay is to compare and contrast the novel titled Fight Club‚ written by Chuck Palahniuk‚ and the story‚ dated back to the Victorian age‚ known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ written by Robert Louis Stevenson. I will compare these two works by evaluating how these two authors represent the theme of dual/split personalities within a specific character found in within each of their respective stories. Each author portrays the idea of dual personalities
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this young girl was Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is described by Mr. Utterson as‚”...pale and dwarfish‚ he gave an impression of deformity without any namable malformation‚ he had a displeasing smile‚ he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness…”(26). After this event‚ Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson decided they would not speak of it again. Until
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This Holiday break I watched a Korean drama called Hyde‚ Jekyll‚ Me. The drama is about a man who is suffering from multiple personality disorder. Mr. A‚ the host personality is a CEO of Korea’s version of disneyland. During the night his alternate personality Mr.B‚ is a famous web cartoonist. The alternate and the host personality are very different from one another. Mr. A‚ is cold and antisocial yet Mr. B‚ is outgoing. At an early age Mr. A‚ the host personality‚ was kidnapped alongside his best
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The realisation of the reader from this extract‚ that Jekyll has only been experimenting with science produces dramatic tension. Throughout the extract‚ Jekyll confesses that he can only speak ’by theory alone’ regarding his attempts to create the potions to transform himself into Hyde. This represents his constant uncertainty about the results of his experiments. Therefore if even Jekyll‚ the man performing the experiments‚ is uncertain of the results‚ dramatic tension is caused for the reader to
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1The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written in the late 1800s by Robert Louis Stevenson. This story is considered to be Gothic fiction. It is known as supernatural terror breaking into everyday reality‚ darkness and eeriness. It can be unpleasant but also interesting‚ something that keeps you reading till the end. 2It is about a Doctor. This Doctor’s name is Henry Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll strongly believes in the human nature of having two parts‚ or more‚ if possible. But these two parts were
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