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The theme of dual personality is prominent in the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two differ greatly in their looks, moral values and mental abilities. Because of this I believe that they are two different personalities. Dr. Jekyll is described as a good looking middle age man with a “smooth face”. His friends are comfortable socializing with him at his home.
Words can create unbelievable images in people's mind , it does not have to be a full sentence to blow up reader’s imagination. In Chapter 2 of the Noble “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Diction takes place as an important form of expressing the author’s feelings. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson (The author) apply the use of Diction with negative words; words like detestable, madness, disagreeably were implemented in this Chapter. Diction is also used to involve the reader by the use of a vocabulary that contain a specific mood, in this case the mood could be taken in different ways. Anxiety, angst or horror, depending on the reader’s mind are some feelings or thinkings that are involved in the story.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll, a distinguished, handsome, and admirable doctor, Dr. Henry Jekyll, experiments good and evil within himself. In life we all have good in ourselves as well as evil. In Dr. Jekyll’s case, he is both 100% good and 100% evil.
“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.
When Robert Louis Stevenson was woken from a nightmare, he said to his wife, "Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine, bogey tale. " Good thing he was woken, because if he wasn't, he might not have gone on to write his bestseller, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The idea was so thought provoking that Stevenson went on to write it all down and have it published. Because of this, it must be considered a classic.
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.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the duality between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shows a difference between an evil personality versus a good personality within the body of Dr. Jekyll. One example of the personality change is evident when Dr. Jekyll cuts off Mr. Hyde and his friends notice once, “the dark influence of Mr. Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.” (Pg. 36-37) Dr. Jekyll was under the influence of a friend, Mr. Hyde which made his whole personality change, but once this figure was removed from his life he returned to his happy and friendly self. Then a sharp change occurred and everything went back to the way he acted when he was with Mr. Hyde, evil, dark, and disconnected. Dr. Jekyll later in his statement admitted he had two personalities saying, “Although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll.”
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.
Even though they are different in physical appearance, they are close. Dr. Jekyll is a “well known, large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast”. While Mr. Hyde, was a much younger man than Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll is a friend of Mr. Hyde, and this is evident because Mr. Hyde was put into Dr. Jekyll’s will, so you can say that these two are friends. Mr.Hyde,however, does not have many friends.
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.
In the novel, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson explores the complexity of human nature. He uses characters and events in the novel to present his stance on the major theme: “man is not truly one, but truly two” (125). Branching from this major theme are many more specific views on the idea that human nature is divided into good and evil. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two very different people who occupy the same body. Human beings struggle with good and evil and Stevenson goes to the extreme to to show this relationship.
The setting in the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson is more than just a place where things occur, it is also a metaphor for the characters. In the case of Dr. Jekyll, his personality changes throughout the story and so do the settings that he is in. For the first part of the poster we put a picture of the entry hallway in Dr. Jekyll’s house, it is warm, inviting and a very homely room. This room reflects what we learn about Jekyll from Utterson, he is a kind, well-made and smooth faced man. The room is inviting and kind just like the person that lives there, Jekyll.
For my Victorian novel, I chose to read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Like most Victorian novels, this book contains an original situation, a conflict, a climax, and a conclusion. Dr. Jekyll is an old doctor with two very close friends, Mr. Utterson and Mr. Lanyon. Mr. Hyde is a younger man with an aptitude for evil. Throughout the book, Mr. Utterson is disturbed by this link between his friend, Jekyll, and this mysterious evil man, Hyde.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" brings the double personality theme, but, the story itself is about the mystery behind Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's connection. The whole story goes around Mr. Utterson - a decent lawyer - trying to find out what is wrong with his dear friend, Henry Jekyll, and what is his relationship with the devilish man, also known as Mr. Hyde. On the end of the story, the reader finds out that Mr. Hyde is Jekyll's evil side: the doctor was fascinated by the duality of human nature and decided to do some experiments to separate his two sides, the good one and the evil one. Henry Jekyll wanted to do things that he couldn't because of his reputation and social morals, therefore, the best and only way of doing what he really wanted to was to have another side that no one knew. On the other hand, he didn't know how evil his other side could be: Mr. Hyde was purely evil and Dr. Jekyll wasn't purely good.
