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    Strange Case Of Jekyll And Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ is that everybody has secrets and those secrets cause us to deceive those around us. This can be an issue when the people who are close realize they are being betrayed by the person to whom they feel close. The examples in the text was the big reveal of Jekyll and Hyde being the same person‚ the secrecy of the will which is how Jekyll kept it from Mr. Utterson‚ as well as why Jekyll was giving everything he owned to Hyde‚ also what mysterious

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    of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ there are many pieces to the “puzzle” when reading and analyzing the text. The most peculiar section of the story was the ending. In the end‚ the audience found out that Dr. Jekyll uses a drug that helps him in a way‚ but does more harm than good. The drug transforms Dr. Jekyll into a creature named Mr. Hyde. Although in the beginning of the book‚ the author makes it seem like they are two different individuals‚ once the reader gets more towards the end‚ Dr. Jekyll and

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    be mysterious is difficult or impossible to understand‚ explain‚ or identify. Robert Louis Stevenson uses a mysterious mood In the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In order for the book to display this mood in his writing he uses imagery‚ diction‚ and details. Stevenson thought the theme up for this book in a nightmare and it certainly is one. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde could be described as mysterious‚ dark‚ dreary‚ and scary. This book uses imagery to create a very dark and mysterious mood. “lamp-lighted

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    for a different reason. Serial killers want to be known as very ordinary people. “From behind this veneer of ordinariness their Mr. Hyde personality‚

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    when the truth is that life is filled with many different shades of grey. All humans have two different sides to them‚ whether they admit it or not. A clear representation of this can be seen in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Throughout the novel‚ we see these two sides shown in one being. Stevenson portrays through setting‚ that humans are not simply good or evil - they are both. This can be seen through Jekyll’s beautiful and appealing home. This can also be

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    with Hyde. Is absolute control possible? Can one choose when to be completely good or evil? How does Stevenson portray this through his resources of language? In composing his novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde Scottish author Robert Lewis Stevenson’s main focus is the duality of man and his human nature. Influenced by western literature‚ Stevenson composed a story where the main characters act as perfect foils for each other. In this battle of good vs. evil‚ Dr. Jekyll is the

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    I strongly disagree with the first interpretation that ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ “is a seven minute tom and jerry film” for the pure fact that contains ideas of revolution that is appropriate to that time period ‚ the ideas of evolution and the battle between science and religion. The novella emphasizes this very clearly as there key references to God “cried out loud to God” and other reference to the evolutionary idea of human from apes by Charles Darwin “ape like fury”. I clearly contradict that

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    Stevenson shows a sense of humour throughout his novel “strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by exploring such elements as the dark isolated atmosphere‚ a strong sense of fear and a presence of evil. He exploits each individual gothic convention by using several devices and techniques to put the reader into a state of chaos. In Stevenson’s book “Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” he explores the convention of a dark isolated atmosphere really well by inviting us into his fantasy world filled

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Analysis In the story “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Stevenson there an extremely prevalant examination of human characteristics throughout the story. Stevenson shows the duality of humans and their enviroments in the story. Now with Jekyll and Hyde being one in the same they are very similar to a chinese Ying-Yang‚ with a little good in all evil and a little evil in all good. When he is Jekyll elements of his Hyde personality come out and the same for when he is Hyde

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    Mad scientist” is “a character who is described as ‘mad’ due to a combination of unusual and unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious‚ taboo of his or her experiments” (Wikipedia). Also‚ “Mad Scientist” is the main theme of the class and Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Glaspell’s The Verge definitely help to illustrate the theme of Professor Ngyuen’s class. Glaspell and Stevenson handle the “Mad Scientist” by describing Claire and Dr. Jekyll’s uncommon experiments

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