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    In The Strange Case 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

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    How Does Stevenson’s writing here make London sound so sinister? The first fog of the season straight away makes London sound bad because when you think of fog it’s not a great weather to have and it contributes to London sounding sinister. Also the streets are dingy which make the area sound like it’s in poverty like ‘’ like a district of some city in a nightmare’’. The streets are also show a lack of light and people not really able to see where there going ‘’ the cab crawled from street to

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    In Shakespeare’s play‚ The Tempest‚ the character Prospero embarks on a journey of self discovery whereby he achieves a renewed understanding and perception of himself and others‚ similarly to how Mr Hyde‚ in the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde‚ succumbs to a transformation and a renewed sense of self. In The Tempest‚ Prospero who was initially a duke‚ but later overruled by his perfidious brother Antonio‚ is stranded on an island‚ where he fabricates an elaborate scheme of vengeance‚ engaging Ariel

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    In Romeo and Juliet the topic of duality is often mentioned because many elements of the play as in life has two sides. In the story ‚ Shakespeare often uses contradictions and irony to help explain the topic. One theme to fit this broad topic would be that People and life are unpredictable: there isn’t a lot that is “black and white”. Friar Lawrence compares plants to humans in his character’s opening monologue. Where he is discussing how plants can be poison or medicine depending on how applied

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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 Nutty Professor The Nutty Professor was released in 1963. It was directed by and also starred Jerry Lewis. It was based on the novel Dr Jeckell and Mr Hyde written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The basic narrative is of Professor Kelp‚ bored with being seen as weak and uptight takes a potion to give himself muscles but turns into ‘Buddy Love’‚ a swinger with a sharp dress sense but no tact. Kelp’s scenes are mainly set in the University where he teaches. These sets look a lot like any University

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    I strongly disagree with the first interpretation that ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ “is a seven minute tom and jerry film” for the pure fact that contains ideas of revolution that is appropriate to that time period ‚ the ideas of evolution and the battle between science and religion. The novella emphasizes this very clearly as there key references to God “cried out loud to God” and other reference to the evolutionary idea of human from apes by Charles Darwin “ape like fury”. I clearly contradict that

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    a rock‚ a very dangerous rock according to people who came across it. The man behind this rock‚ Robert Stevenson‚ built this rock between 1807 and 1810. And it’s amazing that this certain lighthouse still stand even to this day! Awesome‚ indeed! The history of Bell Rock was amusing and interesting as well in my opinion. How many ship wrecks had happened there before‚ I had no idea. Robert Stevenson‚ a man full of dreams‚ wanted to pursue building a lighthouse on Bell Rock. Although many people

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    On the first page of his book‚ Stevenson uses an honest tone to convey his inexperience and insecurities‚ while employing imagery to highlight his anxiety. The honest and blunt tone used by Stevenson show how insecure he truly is. He opens the paragraph with “I wasn’t prepared to meet a condemned man”. This initial statement gives readers an idea of what Stevenson’s character is like: honest and truthful. He takes a very direct approach to convey the insecurities he has. For instance‚ he goes

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    19th Century Medicine Robert Koch (1834) Koch worked on anthrax and tuberculosis (TB) and developed work of Louis Pasteur. Koch first investigated Anthrax (that affected herds of farm animals and farmers.) In 1868 Davaine had proved that a healthy animal that did not have anthrax could get the disease if it was injected with blood containing Anthrax. Koch developed this work further. Koch found out that Anthrax microbes produced spores that lived for a long time after an animal had died and these

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