Unit 4 Project DRAFT- Leela Curteman A theme in the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson is the temptation of curiosity and discovery that can blind logic. Dr. Lanyon. receives a cryptic letter from his friend Dr. Jekyll, the mystery of this letter and urgency makes Lanyon feel responsible to carry it out. Lanyon retrieves the substances for Jekyll, but seeing Hyde is the person that will be receiving these substances, Lanyon withholds them. To that Hyde states, ““And now,” said he, “to settle what remains.
Dr. Jekyll is a reputed man who can physically alter his body and turn into a short and small looking man. The altered form has a name, Mr. Hyde and the intentions of this man is a complete summoning of the suppressed evil and the dark side of Dr. Jekyll. Whenever Dr. Jekyll needs to turn into Mr. Hyde, he takes a certain salt that Dr. Jekyll invented with years of research. Dr. Jekyll one time involuntarily turns into Mr. Hyde far away from his house. Mr. Hyde is already infamous among the police and the public for the crimes he has committed.
“The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground” (3). Mr. Hyde ran over a young girl late into the night without feeling any guilt. Robert Louis Stevenson shows the archetypal theme of good and evil exists in all people in the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. Good and evil exist in all people and we struggle with these two forces. This is shown through Jekyll because he is good with a little bad in him, this is also shown through Hyde, who is evil with some good, and it is lastly shown with the lab because it brings good and evil into Jekyll’s life.
Have you ever been the Other? Have you been in a situation where you feel you don’t belong, like nobody likes you at all? Mr. Hyde has, you see in the short novel “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. Mr. Hyde is no doubt a strange man, his habits were very irregular, was often absent. He has no trace of family anywhere.
Gothic literature is a genre that typically invokes a feeling of fear or mystery in its readers. One example of Gothic literature is “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” This novel is about a scientist named Dr. Jekyll who uses chemistry to divide himself into two different people in an attempt to separate his good and bad qualities. In “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” author Robert Louis Stevenson includes several elements of Gothic literature, such as omens, high emotion, horrifying events, strong Gothic vocabulary, and supernatural events. Robert Louis Stevenson includes many omens, portents, and visions to heighten the sense of horror and foreshadow the imminent consequences of Dr. Jekyll’s decisions.
Dr. Jekyll is seemingly good, kind, and benevolent; while is not purely good he is a moral gentleman. He started his experiment so he could totally separate the bad and the good in himself into two separate beings. He did not succeed, however, for Dr. Jekyll is plagued by the feeling that he wants to become evil again, thus he wants to become Mr. Hyde. It is important to note that Mr. Hyde is completely evil; he has no goodness in him, in contrast to Dr. Jekyll who was a troubled mix. Mr. Hyde feels no remorse for any evil he has done and actually feels elated when he does commit a moral sin.
I chose to draw my project digitally, because it is what I am accustomed to using, as well as, a great way to make illustrations without using paper. Since I am creating an illustration of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I wanted to portray the duality of human nature that the story highlights between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I drew Mr. Hyde as an evil and looming figure behind Dr. Jekyll to signify Dr. Jekyll's uncontrollable and dark natures that Mr. Hyde represents. I also included my portrayal of Dr. Jekyll with a petrified expression symbolizing his conflicted moral nature. The smoke surrounding Dr. Jekyll represents his corruption by his opposing counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
The crime that Mr. Poole assumed had happened was the murder of Dr. Jekyll, and that Mr. Hyde was replacing him in the laboratory. “It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?" (pg. 84). The mask is a sanctuary of refuge where Dr. Jekyll’s malicious thoughts can reside.
Another case of Hyde's was presented enjoying the moonlit night up her window, when she notice two figures one was an elder gent and the other Mr. Hyde. Following that, the gents where engaged in a conversation then suddenly, Hyde brandishes the cane over Sir Carews with apelike fury, upon seeing this the maid fainted, moments later, the maid awakes and calls the cops, upon their arrival the cops saw a body heavily mangled recognize as Sir Danvers Carew (21-2).This describes that in this transformation Hyde was more in control meaning, Jekyll’s pleasure runs now enhanced ten fold. Furthermore, his apelike fury denotes an atavistic nature far cry from his brutality displayed on the girl, which also signifies Hyde’s craving to dominate not
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a gothic novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The whole manuscript concentrates on the concept of human duality and tries to explain that there are both elements of good and evil in every person through the main character personality changes. The choice of using a non-linear plot was done to convey an increasing sense of curiosity and anxiety simultaneously and frequently not to spoil the mystery of the plot. The first chapter narrates "The Story of the Door" , which was told by Mr Enfield to Mr Utterson, and is the first time that the author doesn 't respect the chronological order. This passage portrays the meeting between Mr Enfield and Mr Hyde in a busy quarter of London, where in a small street the gentleman saw Mr Hyde running into a little girl and hurting her carelessly.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the universal theme of the duality of human nature. In the novella, Stevenson describes a quiet and well-respected lawyer named Gabriel Utterson who becomes involved in a strange case regarding his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the unusual Mr. Hyde. Hyde’s hideous actions raise questions and concerns for Utterson but Dr. Jekyll pleads with the attorney to leave the man alone. Eventually, the author reveals the wicked Mr. Hyde as Dr. Jekyll who transforms himself into Hyde by drinking a potion he ironically created to rid man of evil. Jekyll eventually surrenders his old self to his evil counterpart.
Stating this in the novella shows that Stevenson had the desire to demonstrate those dual sides instead of just self-consciously knowing that those dual sides are there. This fear can go towards the audience as this can cause the audience to acknowledge the devil within themselves and give a thought on how letting it out may affect their individual reputation. Also, with the motivation that Utterson has to find out Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s connection, Utterson’s motivation can reflect towards a desire of knowledge that Stevenson once had. Stevenson may have been confused and stressed with finding out the answer to a particular mystery in his life and worked strenuously to solving this problem. Stevenson basically pours all of this tension into the
Have you ever watched a movie or a tv show, or even read a book, in which any character has two different sides? It was probably..., the good one and the evil one? And those sides are always opposites… Right? If this plot is not a strange thing to you, have you ever thought why is this idea/theme so present in many ways inside the pop culture?
Humanism spread to Western Europe during the 14th-16th centuries, concurrent with the Renaissance time period. Before this philosophy emerged, many people had been patrons of the common structure of prevalent church life. The outline for citizens compiled by the church was that acquiring personal wealth and participating in worldly affairs was ineligible. Humanism however, introduced a new view of life for commoners. It taught that one could have interest in worldly affairs and the ideas of limited education and moral behavior.
Within the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, there stands a strange case of good versus evil. However, this story has no great villain or even a valiant hero, it has only a man fighting with his vices and dark urges and desires, which grow darker, more morbid and perverted at the novel goes on. Then, as a means to free himself of such darkness and “evil,” the man creates an antidote or rather cocktail of drugs to help him in such matter. Only problem being, the cocktail separates his psyche in two and with the two sides released from each other. The darkness the bad is allowed to grow and lash out unattended and unblocked.
