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    Mrs. Stevenson Who is this Mrs. Stevenson‚ you may ask. Well‚ she is the main character of the drama‚ “Sorry‚ Wrong Number”‚ by Lucille Fletcher. In the story‚ she tried to call her husband‚ but heard a conversation about murder plot to kill a woman alone in her house. She tries to stop this murder from happening and gets people to help her‚ but more and more problems form as the play goes on. Some these problems may have formed because of her traits. Some of Mrs. Stevenson’s traits are that she

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    How does Stevenson explore ideas of good and evil in the novella “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and MrHyde. Jekyll and Hyde are like a dual personality‚ a single individual dissociate into two. They have become what Otto status calls opposing selves‚ According to Rank‚ the double in primitive societies is conceived of as a shadow‚ representing both the living person and the dead. This shadow survives the self‚ insuring immortality and thus functioning as a kind of guardian

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    Summary Mr. Utterson is a lawyer‚ who is friends with Dr. Jekyll‚ and knows of the mysterious and troublesome Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll has given his will‚ which has some strange requests‚ to Mr. Utterson in case anything should happen to him. While reading the contents of the will‚ Mr. Utterson begins to realize that Dr. Jekyll’s handwriting is very similar to that of Mr. Hyde’s. One day‚ Poole‚ an employee of Dr. Jekyll‚ calls the lawyer and tells him that Dr. Jekyll has locked himself in a closet

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    Mulwray. Mrs. Mulwray is a dignified and elegant rich woman‚ while Gittes is a wise-cracking and crude private investigator. This works out in their favor because Mrs. Mulwray has a more dodging and more hidden personality and Gittes is more of a straight forward man‚ allowing them to work well together‚ but also switches up the game. Gittes

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    In Shakespeare’s play‚ The Tempest‚ the character Prospero embarks on a journey of self discovery whereby he achieves a renewed understanding and perception of himself and others‚ similarly to how Mr Hyde‚ in the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde‚ succumbs to a transformation and a renewed sense of self. In The Tempest‚ Prospero who was initially a duke‚ but later overruled by his perfidious brother Antonio‚ is stranded on an island‚ where he fabricates an elaborate scheme of vengeance‚ engaging Ariel

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    Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde A novel’s characters may be described in multitudes of ways. Keeping this thought in mind‚ the three main characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ Dr. Jekyll‚ Mr. Hyde‚ and Mr. Utterson are highlighted by Stevenson. He developed each character individually through their actions and by comparing them in a comprehensive manner with which a reader can understand and ultimately‚ relate with. In this way Stevenson shows the reader who the characters really through their actions

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    Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ the two main characters‚ Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde are the complete opposite of characters. At the beginning of the novella‚ when each character is introduced‚ Mr. Hyde is said to be the epitome of evil‚ while Henry Jekyll is quite the opposite. Throughout the gothic novella‚ each of the characters come into ones self‚ meaning that Edward Hyde becomes more evil than many ever believed‚ but Jekyll becomes weaker

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    PORTRAIL OF HYDE Stevenson makes sure the reader knows what a disturbed character Hyde is. He does this by using some horrific phrases in which to describe Hyde’s appearance and actions. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in the 19th century. Around this time there were a lot of scientific advances. At the time people where still thinking about the book by Darwin‚ ‘’Origin of Species’’. This said that humans had originally come from apes. Stevenson portrays Hyde’s character is through his appearance

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    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

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    The only white woman in the play‚ Mrs. Van Buren is the character who embodies the decadence and absurdity of upper class. Mrs. Van Buren is an idle dreamer‚ who feels bored of her situation but does not confront problems or even try to recognize them. Apparently tired of social gatherings such as the annual Gardenia Ball‚ where she has to “smile‚ be polite”‚ she dreams of getting her room and living alone. However‚ she consider it impossible and “would rather not be a divorcee” because “it would

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