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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The relationship between Jekyll and Hyde is essential to developing the theme of duality in this work. There are several reasons for this. First, there is the core relationship. These men change...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The broadest and most comprehensive answer is, whatever he wanted. A slightly more specific answer is, Mr. Hyde did whatever Dr. Jekyll wanted to do but didn't do, because he was concerned about...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Just as Mr. Hyde represents the dark underbelly of Dr. Jekyll, the setting of Victorian London possesses such a duality as well. On the surface, London is the civilized, cosmopolitan capital of...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Toward the end of the third chapter, "Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease," Jekyll is speaking with his lawyer, Mr. Utterson, about his will. Utterson has confronted Jekyll about the will, which concerns...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In creating Dr. Henry Jekyll, a relatively ethical character who feels such intense societal pressure to be perfect, Stevenson seems to comment on, indeed criticize, the society that would drive a...
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Frankenstein
I find Dr. Jekyll's use of science to have at least a bit more integrity than Victor Frankenstein's. Frankenstein dreams of being "blessed" by a race of men which he will have created and "hailed"...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Three major worries for the somewhat melancholic Stevenson were health, his career path, and religion. Robert Louis Stevenson's health was poor throughout his life. When he was an infant and a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson likely chose to have Utterson narrate the story so that the audience would see the story unfold as he does, increasing suspense and tension as we must wonder with him what on earth is...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In Chapter 8, entitled "The Last Night," Poole, Jekyll's butler, calls Utterson to Jekyll's house because he is so concerned about his employer. Poole fears that someone has murdered Jekyll, and...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
That depends on the assignment. Have you been given an assignment that involves a specific question about the book, or that points you in the direction of certain themes? Since you don't mention...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Utterson is a lawyer, Dr. Jekyll's lawyer in fact. He never smiles, is a little cold, but manages to be "somehow lovable" nonetheless. Besides being Dr. Jekyll's lawyer, he is also a really...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The moral message of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is that man's soul is paired with both elements of good and evil. These basic elements cannot be separated...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Perhaps the most striking description of Hyde, besides his indescribably ugly face, is that he's considerably smaller than Jekyll. While Stevenson describes Jekyll as "a large, well-made,...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson explores the duality of human nature, meaning that we have the capacity for both good and evil, by presenting Dr. Jekyll, a man who has struggled in vain with the darker side of himself...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Suspense and tension are created in this very brief chapter as a result of Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson chancing to see Dr. Jekyll at his window as they go for their walk. The pair invites the...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In chapter three, Dr. Jekyll is so mysterious as he sits talking with his friend and lawyer, Mr. Utterson, that his odd responses to Utterson's questions create suspense and build tension. Utterson...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Both Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson suspect that Mr. Hyde is blackmailing Dr. Jekyll with some information, perhaps about the doctor's behavior when he was young, or "some of the capers of his...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It is probable that Robert Louis Stevenson gave the task of explaining the assault to Mr. Enfield rather than Mr. Utterson because Mr. Enfield, as "the well-known man about town," is likely to be a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gothic literature often leaves open the possibility of mystery, especially having to do with something supernatural. Madness is common in Gothic literature too, as is any overwrought emotion...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I absolutely agree with the statement that The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are explorations of the duality of human nature. Basil says that Dorian always...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Victorian-era London is an appropriate setting for this novella because it was during the latter part of Queen Victoria's reign that highly moralistic language and behavior became the social norm...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The most important word in this quote is "impression." In this passage, Utterson has just met Mr. Hyde for the first time, and he is trying to understand the "impression" the man has left him with....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll means that we are not supposed to be able to separate our evilness and our goodness from one another. Part of the fundamental struggle of being human is that these twin halves must...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
One major way in which Stevenson makes the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde so fascinating is through his use of point of view. Stevenson employs a third-person limited omniscient...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The term "troglodyte" means "cave dweller". It is derived from two Greek words, "trogle" meaning "hole", and "dyein", meaning "to dive into." In Victorian English, it typically refers to...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In the second chapter, "The Search for Mr. Hyde," Mr. Utterson wishes to see Mr. Hyde for himself, having heard Mr. Enfield's strange story and confirmed that Dr. Jekyll's will does, indeed, name...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Henry Jekyll describes his worst faults at the end of the story, in the section titled "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." The statement begins as something of an autobiography, telling of...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Utterson, Dr. Henry Jekyll's lawyer, lives in London, England, in a "bachelor house" of his own. He must live relatively close to Mr. Edward Hyde's residence because, on one of his Sunday walks...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The setting of the novel is Victorian England, an era known for its repression of sexual desire and anything considered to be "dark" or bad about human nature. Such a setting helps us to understand...
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Frankenstein
In terms of good, your first two small quotations—"valiant cousin" and "noble Macbeth"—help to illustrate the goodness, loyalty, and bravery with which Macbeth begins the play. Duncan refers to...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll and Hyde, of necessity, die at the same time; because they share the same body, one cannot die without the other dying as well. When Mr. Utterson came to Dr. Jekyll's door, he hears Hyde's...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson really uses indirect characterization to help paint more a detailed picture of Jekyll and Hyde, and, perhaps, their relationship. Jekyll looks "deathly sick" and his manner is...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jekyll's madness—if it is that—is portrayed as a progression similar to that of addiction. It begins with choices Jekyll makes, becomes more attractive and harder to resist, and ends up being...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The very first line of the novel paints a somewhat contradictory picture of Mr. Utterson, the lawyer, that the remainder of the first two paragraphs helps to flesh out. He was a man of a rugged...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
As Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde begins, the characters of Gabriel John Utterson, a lawyer, and Richard Enfield, a distant relative of the former and...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
On January 8, Mr. Utterson eats dinner with Dr. Lanyon and notices nothing out of the ordinary. Six nights later, however, he returns to the doctor's house and meets a very changed man. At this...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I think it is likely that Stevenson sets his novella in Victorian London because, in this era, there was such monumental concern about morality, the potentiality for good and evil within each of...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Christians believe that all human beings are imperfect and subject to sin. It is not possible for us to be perfectly good, though we can try, because we are sinful by nature. (One can trace this...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Based on your question, it is not clear if you are writing an entire essay and this is just one idea for one paragraph, or if you only need to write one paragraph. Either way, here is one way in...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The setting of this story is Victorian England, where reputation was really everything. Dr. Henry Jekyll feels trapped by his own society because he wishes to lead a wild lifestyle that would not...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This is a very subjective question, and each person could arrive at a different answer. It might be best to look at why he could have been right and why he could have been wrong. Morally Right? Dr....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The book takes place in the late 19th Century. This is important to the descriptions in the book because the settings we see very much represent the two different Londons we see identified—the...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Before writing the letter it would be important to choose the point in the story where Dr. Jekyll is writing to Mr. Hyde. Jekyll's feelings about Hyde change over the course of the story, so his...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
There are a few moral lessons in the story, but most of them are implicit. There is no precisely-worded statement that says "this is what Jekyll did wrong", but it's fairly easy to follow such a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Hyde uniformly disgusts other people and fills them with a hatred of himself. When Mr. Enfield first describes Hyde to Mr. Utterson, he says that he "had taken a loathing to [the] gentleman at...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In the chapter of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde titled "Dr. Lanyon's Narrative," Lanyon describes the manner in which he receives a letter from his old...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Other descriptions convey to readers Dr. Jekyll's state of mind, especially as we approach the end of the story. The narrator describes Jekyll as sitting in a window, "taking the air with an...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
There are indeed examples of Victorian reactions to Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Shortly after the novella was written, reviews began to appear in...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Control is a concept explored many times in the novel as Jekyll begins to lose more and more control over Hyde. When Henry Jekyll first takes his potion he is aware that there is great risk that he...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
During the late XIX century, the theories of psychoanalysis that we know today, namely, those of Freud, were just becoming a part of the mainstream mindset of people everywhere. Multiple attempts...