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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde In the famous novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde there are many underlying themes surrounding the story line. The story takes on a dark and mysterious aspect that seems to allude to something more then what it is letting on. One major theme that I saw throughout the entire story was addiction or substance abuse. The dual personality of Jekyll and Hyde is unnatural and their actions make the reader believe that there is a serious problem going on. The novel

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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is greatly influenced by the historical events that happened during the time when Robert Louis Stevenson was writing this novel. The three main historical context that influenced the book are religion‚ the Victorian conventions of the nineteenth century and the gothic literature that was being published at the same time. Religion was a major part of the nineteenth century and was greatly enforced into the author and everyone’s daily life during that time

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    In “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚” I found three themes‚ judging people by their looks is wrong‚ friends can bring out the best in us‚ and it is human nature to try and take the easy way out. One of the main themes is “judging people by their looks is wrong.” We find this in the book when Mr. Enfield describes Mr. Hyde “ I never saw a man I so disliked‚ yet I scarcely know why.” Everyone seems to hate Mr. Hyde even though they don’t know anything about him‚ all they know is that he

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    deeper darker forces will arise. Dr. Jekyll’s deeper darker forces come forth after years of his persona not acceptable in the eyes of others being repressed because of the pain that desires cause. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ the repression of Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego eats away at him; for the repression of this other being can no longer be caged. Through the repression and absolution of his deepest desires‚ Dr. Jekyll’s desire for unattainable

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    The two books I have chosen for my open study are: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The first one‚ written in 1890 by Oscar Wilde‚ is the story of a young‚ aristocratic dandy who‚ influenced by a friend‚ becomes a hedonistic‚ selfish man who ends in tragedy. The second‚ written in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ is the story of a scientist‚ Dr. Jekyll‚ who‚ under the effect of a potion‚ mutates into a terrifying monster every night‚ killing whoever doesn ’t please him. Choosing

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    He doesn’t have the innocent start of Frankenstein‚ the upstanding alter ego of Dr. Jekyll‚ or some

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    Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” are inextricably linked with the uncertainty and doubt that plagued the latter period of the Victorian Era. In particular‚ the notion that there are dual sides to human nature apparent in both novels addresses the original‚ more authentic nature

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    Greek god is a piece of cake. Diana Prince is her alias‚ much like Dr. Jekyll is an alias of Mr. Hyde in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She tries to live a normal life among humans‚ but trouble always arises. Analyzing Wonder Woman will always

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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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    really grasp the concepts. Even now‚ those types of papers are still being recycled and perfected. Which leads to my strengths and weaknesses of these papers. Recently‚ we have completed a novel analysis on the book and movie variation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Strengths I had were in the overall synthesis. There were many examples of analysis of the relationships and why the author or director may have done what they did. One example

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