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    From time to time support your writing is essential‚ in the Novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" allusion is a remarkable device used to support or create a specific idea in something that the author is trying to explain ‚ as a matter of fact‚ biblical allusions are found in different places in the book. Religion is a taboo that some people do not want to discuss‚ but Robert Louis Stevenson introduces this theme with creativity‚ adding comments that connect to the Bible and some

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    act on‚ that’s who we really are‚” Sirius Black. In the book Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ Jekyll tries to separate himself into two versions- good and evil. This book can be easily put into the category that states good and evil lives in all of us and the struggle we find naturally with the two sides. Jekyll battles the two‚ until he finds that the evil he found inside him‚ Mr. Hyde‚ has become stronger than the good. When Hyde is found dead it shows that

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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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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an English film which was classed as a horror when it was released. Now more of a comedy when you watch it‚ the special effects are nothing compared to the new effects of today. The film is about an English gentleman who wants to releases his inner desires and do all the things he longs to do‚ so he makes a potion and changes into another character (the evil side of himself - Hyde) The plot is hard to understand and it’s not very exciting either. It doesn’t have the

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    The theme of ‘madness’ is demonstrated in the both The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by R. L . Stevenson and The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Both authors utilise the gothic genre to show the impact of madness to their central character. Stevenson explores the theme of madness through the conflicts between good and bad within humanity‚ in which Mr Hyde is used as a symbol of the consequences when humans let go of their morality to evil desires. While in Tell-tale Heart‚ the notion

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    Throughout the entire novel of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ everyone is inquiring or investigating about something. The characters are either meddling in someone else’s business or they become curious about something scientific. Because of this curiosity‚ different people get in trouble in some way. In the first chapter‚ Mr. Utterson’s friend Mr. Enfield says‚ “You start a question‚ and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes‚ starting others; and presently

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    The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Mary Reilly Lenka Říhová MUP‚ 4AS_K January 2014 Word Count: 1856 Valerie Martin‚ an American novelist and short story writer‚ wrote a gothic‚ suspense story Mary Reilly‚ based on Robert Louis Stevenson ´s classic novel The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This essay is going to deal with the problem of duality seen from different angles as well as comparing of both novels and the way Valerie Martin

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    case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde One said that everything has two sides‚ then so do human natures. As we cannot separate darkness from brightness‚ since wherever there is a light‚ there always is a shadow. We too cannot distinct goodness from badness‚ because underneath our sober and respectable appearances and actions‚ there lies down a hidden instinct of our own Mr. or Mrs. Hyde. “Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” of Robert Stevenson tells the story of the well-mannered Dr. Jekyll who obsessed

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    enables them to indulge in their desires” (Norton 1670). The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reflects Victorian Values because of the double sided life he lives to be able to complete his desires. He cannot do what he wants to do because men at this time are meant to be well respectable‚ successful‚ and have good behavior. Dr. Jekyll is the known respectable loving doctor in the story that reflects Victorian Values while Mr. Hyde is the evil side who does

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    In the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ Robert Louis Stevenson presented dualism by the obsession of Dr. Jekyll’s own darker/ evil side of his own. Before the climax of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde they revealed that Hyde and Jekyll are the same person‚ and the duality of their own personalities will creates a tension between the good‚ social Jekyll and Hyde who seems to be causing harm and mayhem‚ and it looks like it is Jekyll who will be overtaken somehow by Hyde. One

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