Following up on the reading of the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”‚ by Robert Stevenson‚ I have discovered several themes reflecting upon gothic elements‚ bringing the reader to experience rage‚ fear‚ and horror. Throughout the book there is a big concern about homosexuality‚ murder‚ and duality of human nature all told form a patriarchal point of view. However the centralized focus is based on good and evil. Stevenson focus’ his centralized theme and proves his text to be gothic by embedding
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In “The Judge’s House” written by Bram Stoker‚ the story takes place at an evil judge’s house that has hanged people‚ and a student named Malcomson is just staying there for a few days despite being warned not to. Strange occurrences begin with rats disturbing Malcomson while he is staying there but particularly a rat with red eyes sticks out to him. The rat with the red eyes would be in a hole behind a painting of the judge that is hung in the house‚ and sit in the same position as the judge in
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In Robert Louis Stevenson’s 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
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many allegories. First‚ there is the religious allegory of the devil and the lower self as well as the “hiding” aspect of Hyde. Hyde is also an allegory of human character in general. The city of London‚ and all of its descriptions written by Robert Lewis Stevenson‚ is filled with allegories. First‚ Hyde is a complex allegory because it is arguable what exactly Hyde is supposed to represent. Hyde could be an allegory of the devil
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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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PORTRAIL OF HYDE Stevenson makes sure the reader knows what a disturbed character Hyde is. He does this by using some horrific phrases in which to describe Hyde’s appearance and actions. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in the 19th century. Around this time there were a lot of scientific advances. At the time people where still thinking about the book by Darwin‚ ‘’Origin of Species’’. This said that humans had originally come from apes. Stevenson portrays Hyde’s character is through his appearance
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character is presented as an unenthusiastic and pessimistic Victorian man‚ and is evident from the very first page of the novel. The text notes that Utterson has a face that is ‘never lighted by a smile’ and only speaks when necessary. In addition Stevenson describes Utterson as ‘dusty and dreary’ and ‘yet somehow lovable‚’ which is noticeable in the close relationships he has with his friends. His strong relationships with his friends may perhaps be because ‘his friends were of his own blood or those
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story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ both died towards the end of Stevensons novel. Lanyon was killed by the overwhelming factor of Jekyll also being Hyde. Jekyll committed suicide after not being able to control his transformations into and from the hideous‚ evil Hyde. Both deaths were caused by an overload of stress and the lack of not being able to control it. Stress can have a bad effect
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do not want to expose. Mr. Utterson expresses this theme of duality through his change in behavior. In the beginning of the novel‚ Stevenson describes Mr. Utterson as a trustworthy and honest lawyer. As the story progresses‚ it is evident that this description becomes false as his other half emerges: "This is a private matter‚ and I beg of you to let it sleep" (Stevenson 19). At one of Dr. Jekyll’s dinner parties‚ Jekyll asks for Utterson to promise to stop investigating information about Hyde. Utterson’s
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the very popular novel‚ written by Robert-Louise Stevenson. For its time‚ the topic of human nature was something that various authors offered their opinions on. The likes of Charles Dickens through his novel “Great Expectations” deals with a numerous amount of characters and their journey through life‚ and their constant battle with their own identity and nature. The novel deals with a great sense of ‘Darwinism’ there is no mistake in saying that Stevenson was influenced my Darwin’s controversial
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