the street for no apparent reason at all. The reason the sympathy is felt is because Mr. Hyde feels no remorse for what he did. “I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene.” (Stevenson 41) Mr. Hyde does not wish to apologize but to not cause a scene. “Name your figure.” (Stevenson 41) Mr. Hyde‚ in order to avoid a scene‚ offers to pay the little girls family to keep them quiet. Sympathy is felt for the little girl because he does show that he feels sorry for his wrongdoing
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becoming Hyde after a while‚ this shows us that the potion has chronic effects to the brain."My devil had been long caged‚ he came out roaring. I was conscious even when I took the draught‚ of a move unbridled‚ a more furious propensity to ill." (Stevenson 121). This shows how Jekyll had a relapse because he was unable to resist the urges any longer. Dr. Jekyll has a classic case of addiction‚ he is unable to stop because his brain is made to believe he needs the potion‚ the effect of drugs can cause
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black cats stuck in a cage but one of them wanted to be white and he can’t as a metaphor. So if everyone in this time is walking around with desires in their minds and in their hearts then what are they to do to let it out and express themselves? Stevenson tells us this tale to say that they can’t be who they are out in the open they have to be upper-class people with good qualities and self respect in order to be accepted in this
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738358/ In the novel‚ Stevenson creates a hero in Dr. Jekyll‚ who aware of the evil in his own being‚ and sick of the duplicity in his life‚ succeeds by way of his experiments on himself in freeing the pure evil part of his being as Mr. Hyde‚ so that each can indulge in a life unfettered by the demands of the other. As Dr. Jekyll says‚ “With every day and from both sides of my intelligence‚ the moral and intellectual‚ I thus drew steadily to that truth
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mystery of Hyde touches his imagination. He believes that if he can only set eyes on Hyde‚ the mystery will roll away. Even Jekyll himself says‚ “My position . . . is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” The irony is that all Stevenson has to work with is words; all that Jekyll can use to account for Hyde is words. Even Jekyll’s words are hidden‚ however‚ as if within nesting Chinese boxes‚ in the letter within the letter that reveals
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Mr. Enfield can’t come up with a clear description of Mr. Hyde’s appearance other than the fact that he is horribly deformed in some unclear way‚ and no one else throughout the novel can offer a clear description of his deformity either. Perhaps Stevenson does not offer a clear description of Hyde from the beginning of the novel so it becomes up to the reader’s imagination to conjure up their own depiction of a misshapen monster. Since this novel is so well-known‚ it is understood that Hyde
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her experiments” (Wikipedia). Also‚ “Mad Scientist” is the main theme of the class and Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Glaspell’s The Verge definitely help to illustrate the theme of Professor Ngyuen’s class. Glaspell and Stevenson handle the “Mad Scientist” by describing Claire and Dr. Jekyll’s uncommon experiments‚ atmosphere of the book‚ setting of the Era and their urge to be free. In the two books‚ setting plays a huge role in understanding the characters and books.
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when he was running over the child‚ he didn’t give a second thought before killing Mr. Carew. Though he blames Hyde for all his sinful crimes‚ he seems guilty of drinking the potion in the first place. He feels guilty of giving in to his temptations over all. Even though he states in his letter that he had no guilt of Hyde’s actions. He states “It was Hyde‚ after all‚ and Hyde alone”. This seems different to hear coming from Jekyll after all Hyde is all “his” suppressed feelings. He didn’t realize
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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 with completely isolating good and evil within human characters into another human form by consuming a special potion which unintentionally unleashing the double evil character of
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Hyde. How does a respectable doctor transforms himself into a cold blood killer? After knowing that it was based on a true story‚ how did people react to such a frightening event? Could it happen to any of us too? The duality present throughout Robert Louis Stevenson’s
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