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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Setting is defined as the "social environment, place and time" in which a story's events unfold (Literary Devices, "Setting"). The setting of a novel will consist of one general time and location,...
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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
One moral message of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is that it is necessary for the individual to wrestle with his or her own dark side; there is no shortcut or easy way to escape...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Like a typical detective mystery, this chapter opens with a dead body, that of Sir Danvers. There is also the mysterious, sudden disappearance of the odious Mr. Hyde. Like a typical mystery, we are...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fog is an important recurring motif in the novel and often represents Mr. Utterson's sense of fog or confusion as he tries to get to the bottom of the mystery of Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll's...
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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
There are several significant themes in Stevenson's popular 1886 Gothic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: these include the themes of human nature, the importance of friendship,...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
From Dr. Jekyll's own account, he has had in him prurient desires that he secretly has satisfied. When he tries to separate them from his professional identity by transforming his appearance so he...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The conflict in Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the struggle between Dr. Henry Jekyll and the dual nature of his personality. As a Victorian, Dr. Jekyll enjoys the...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Lanyon is Mr. Utterson's oldest friend. The two went to school and to college together. They both like and respect one another. Dr. Lanyon is described as friendly, good-hearted, and...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been regarded by some as "one of the best guidebooks of the Victorian era" as its duality of Dr. Jekyll represented for some a basic...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gothic Literature and the gothic movement is a part of the Romantic Movement which focuses on the deeper aspects of the human psyche, and deals with the inevitability of fate, among other things....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Literary devices are of two categories: literary elements and literary techniques. Literary elements are common to all fiction in one form or another. Literary techniques are options each...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This quote shows up in Chapter 5: "The Incident of the Letter." What the author is trying to do by writing these lines is (in my opinion) to describe the city and to do so in a way that makes it...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) shows the influence of two American writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) and Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) in his best-known story, “The Strange Case of...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In Stevenson’s classic tale, Mr. Utterson is a lawyer, and a representation of Victorian order. Those two details are two sides of the same coin. Utterson not only practices law, he represents...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about a scientist, Dr. Jekyll, who is curious to find out if he can separate his evil side from his good side. The consequence of this curiosity is a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Utterson is concerned after reading Dr. Jekyll's will because his friend is leaving everything to Mr. Hyde, a man Mr. Utterson has never heard of or met. This in itself is strange, because Mr....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In Robert Louis Stephenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hyde not only grows stronger over time: he becomes larger, stands more upright, and finally does not need the drug at all...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Before Dr. Jekyll created the drug that would separate the good and evil sides of man, he actually lived a dual life. He pretended to be an upright person, but he occasionally "laid aside restraint...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
One of the most interesting examples of symbolism to my mind in this excellent short story is the way in which the physical description of Dr. Jekyll's house and laboratory mirrors the internal...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
An allusion is when an author refers to another work of literature or art. In the beginning of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson describes one of the main characters in the story, Mr....
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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
The Carew Murder Case" (Chapter 4) contains many of the elements of horror and mystery that continue to intrigue the modern reader. First, we have the unexplained, gruesome murder of a...
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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
Well, one of the principal methods which is used to help separate the two figures and keep the fact of their actual unity a secret is the living arrangements of both of them. Note how Dr. Jekyll...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, reflects his deeply moral and Calvinistic bent. He was raised a Presbyterian in the Church of Scotland, and thus...
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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
Gothic literature is a style of writing that grew in conjunction with Romanticism. Like Romanticism, it uses elements of nature and focuses on human experience and emotion, but it tends to...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, Stevenson paints a portrait of human nature that suggests very much that human nature is somewhere in between good and evil and that most people have...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
This novel begins with a character describing an almost supernatural experience of terror and dread, followed by the description of random act of violence by a man who shows no remorse. The...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In my opinion, Dr. Jekyll could not find a cure because he did not want to. You could argue that there was no need for a cure because there was not really any sickness that could not be overcome...
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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
Freedom is a theme in this story. Jekyll experiences a level of freedom by turning into Hyde. He is able to indulge his inner passions and desires that go against Victorian society and...
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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
Look at what Lanyon is doing in this chapter. Isn't it strange and mysterious? He is lying there terribly sick. He says he is going to die and that nothing can be done to cure him. It is...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
First, we need to identify the major theme of Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, then second, pin point central features of Gothic literature to see which might be...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
One of the most prominent themes in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is what critic Irving S. Saposnik calls the "contrasts between exterior modes and interior realities." The meaning of...
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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
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
In Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, fear and chaos support the theme of good vs. evil. The fear comes from the horrific actions of Dr. Jekyll's alter ego, Mr....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll is experimenting with mind-altering drugs, and like millions of people who experiment with drugs he begins by feeling he can control them but later comes to realize that they are...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The only good thing about this novel is that it reveals that everyone has a dark side and even suggests that people like Dr. Jekyll who seem almost completely good may have a darker side than...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Enfield said he saw a man (Mr. Hyde) run into a little girl and trample her body, then run away. In the beginning of the story, Enfield and Mr. Utterson are taking a walk when Enfield points out a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The primary conflict in the novel is internal, between the two sides of Dr. Jekyll’s personality. Hyde is the dark side of his nature; the novel is an allegorical treatment of humankind’s...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It is impossible (unless Stevenson left notes to the effect) to know if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein had a direct influence on his writing of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In terms of...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, there are quite a few instances of dialogue author Robert Louis Stevenson uses to show us that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two different...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A major theme of this book is good and evil. It is about the idea that there is both good and evil within each of us and we have to struggle to keep the evil from becoming too strong. It's also...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." As with any interpretation, this is subjective. Therefore, I can only give you my...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In Chapter 4, Hyde's capacity for evil is shown. His vicious nature becomes apparent with the violent murder of Carew. Hyde kills at random, with no apparent motive and little concern for getting...
