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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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    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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    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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    1. Dr. Jekyll tells us the story from Jekyll’s perspective in the last chapter. Why is the story never narrated from Hyde’s perspective? Various reasons‚ first‚ Hyde is never a real character but a dark side of Dr. Jekyll‚ which means Mr. Hyde is just an personaiity but not a real existence in this novel.   2. Why did Stevenson decide to write from multiple points of view? (Enfield’s narration in Chapter 1‚ third person limited narrative of Utterson’s perspective in most chapters‚ third person

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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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    very different literature of the 20th Century. Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde were among many of the significant Victorian novelists and poets. The Victorian era was an important time for the development of science and the Victorians had a mission to describe and classify the entire natural world. While writers such as Charles Darwin strived to understand the philosophy of life and origin of humans‚ writers such as

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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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    Setting Sets the Standards In Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless novel‚ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ he uses setting and characterization to emphasize the idea that a person will act a way if they are expected to. In his novel‚ the character of Dr. Jekyll alludes to the mostly good people. Mr. Hyde‚ however‚ specifically shows the bad people in society. For these two characters‚ the constantly changing gothic setting of this novel and the different extremes between light and dark represent their characterizations

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    To 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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    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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