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    Garrett Harting 3/12/14 Junior British Literature Characterization in Robert Louis 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. JekyllMr. 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

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    How does Stevenson present duality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Stevenson presents duality in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in various ways. One of these variations of the duality is among the minor characters‚ for example Utterson and Enfield. Their similarity is that they are both respectable Victorian gentlemen‚ that both like to discuss stories but they feel it is gossiping about their friend and say ‘let us make a bargain to never refer to this again’‚ this shows that they feel that they have over

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    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 and distances himself

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    In Defense of Mr. Hyde In 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson published The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and entered literary history. The novel’s juxtaposition between good and evil and its exploration of the duality of man have been imitated and parodied countless times since its publication. On the one hand Stevenson offers up Dr. Henry Jekyll‚ “a large‚ well-made‚ man of fifty” (Stevenson 18)‚ philanthropic and well loved‚ and on the other there is Mr. Edward Hyde‚ “pale and dwarfish” (15)

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    In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ the theme is that giving way to too much curiosity would lead to regret‚ and possibly even death. Doctor Henry Jekyll‚ the novel’s protagonist‚ is a curious scientist whose experimentation on the “thorough and primitive duality of man” gave rise to his dark and threatening alter-ego‚ Mr. Hyde. It all started with Jekyll’s interest in the possibility that man may have two personalities within him. This caused him to produce a formula which would

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    themes in the novella The 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

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    sophisticated language Jekyll and Hyde Is a novella while Medea is a play Both use many language techniques Jekyll and Hyde is horror while Medea is fantasy Both are engaging Jekyll and Hyde is very mysterious and very suspenseful while Medea is very planned out. Both written long ago Jekyll and Mr Hyde ended with the bad guy dying while Medea finishes with the bad person walking away alive. Both contain moral messages Medea has unhappy ending while Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has happy ending.

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    you that he believes that all man has a double side. This is self evident in the generally evil Mr. Edward Hyde and the antonym Dr. Henry Jekyll. He was not secretive in informing the reader of this dual side as seen by the physical acts and attitudes of both Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll‚ and there are also the expressions of Dr. Jekyll in his explanation of the series of events about Mr. Hyde’s origin. Mr. Hyde is often portrayed as a squat‚ gruesome younger man who invokes fear into the individuals

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    In the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ Robert Louis Stevenson‚ the author of the book‚ made a main character‚ Dr. Jekyll‚ who has two different sides in his body. The story goes by strange evidence from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s relationship. At the end of the book‚ we found out that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll were same person. Mr. Hyde was a evil side of Dr. Jekyll. Before he created the chemical drinks‚ he was a healthy and hard working person. But he wanted to experiment about dual life

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two different people‚ but are sort of the same. They are the same because they both came from the same person‚ they are just different sides of his personality. Dr. Jekyll is his good side‚ while Mr. Hyde is his evil side. In that sense‚ they are completely different. Even though they are different people‚ they still share one similar trait. That trait is there selfishness. Both of them put their own needs above everybody else. An example of Dr. Jekyll being selfish is

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