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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Eight of the ten chapters of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are narrated from the third person, omniscient perspective. Chapters 9 and 10 are narrated from the first person...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In Chapter 2, Mr. Utterson decides to search for Mr. Hyde, and the mood, for the most part, is dark, sinister and foreboding. For example, Mr. Utterson has a nightmare in which Mr. Hyde glides...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The nature versus nurture debate is a key theme in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The fundamental question that the debate tries to address is whether our characters, as humans, are...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is full of mystery and suspense, elements which Robert Louis Stevenson creates through the structure, narrative perspective, and language of the text....
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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
In the final chapter of the novel, which contains Henry Jekyll's full confession, he admits that he "concealed his pleasures" from the public, creating a public persona, separate from his private...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The narrator of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an anonymous third person limited narrator who directs how the story will be told, beginning in Chapter 1 where thenarrator says:...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Broadly speaking, Stevenson does this in two ways. First, the narrative is marked by a strong narrative voice. There is no pretense of objectivity here. This is a story that is being told by a...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
There is an almost expressionistic quality to Robert Louis Stevenson's descriptions of the setting and characters in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. For example, Hyde is often...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson will have his characters walk in silence as they compose their thoughts, such as in the following passage where Utterson tries to absorb Mr. Enfield's telling him that the man who ran...
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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 the...
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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 believed...
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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...
