In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , the dualities reflected of the Victorian times. Where people lived a double-life because the norms society set for honourable individuals to comply with were to high for people to come after . Double standards created along of this and fuelled the deception of the middle-class . As society allowed , they lived superficially respectable , moral lives . Alternatively , at night , when doors was closed , that was when people started showing who they really were , showing their dark and desires from the deepest part of their mind .
Interests in math and science. Mr Hyde had developed a potion that allowed him to turn into Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll found a way to separate his good side from his darker side, by transforming himself into a monster free of consciences. But he later found that he was turning into more and more into Mr Hyde. He started turning into Mr. Hyde in random places, the transformations got worse and worse.
In ‘Macbeth’, Shakespeare shows the gradual change in the protagonist Macbeth by displaying how he goes from a hero to a tyrant. Similarly, in ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, Stevenson includes the downfall of his protagonist in his story by showing him as a prestigious gentleman at the start of the play, but near the end he is shown as the villainous Mr Hyde. In ‘Macbeth’ the protagonists downfall is somewhat caused by the Witches and Lady Macbeth whereas in ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ the protagonists downfall is due to his addiction to his potion. At the start of the play, Macbeth is shown as kind and brave due to his acts in the war. King Duncan says, “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”.
Jekyll finds his dark side a burden and is determined to separate his good side from his corrupt side by undertaking experiments. Through those experiments, he creates Mr. Hyde finding a way to transform himself into another being so that he fully becomes his evil half. Mr. Edward Hyde is the alter evil ego of Henry Jekyll who is called “ugly and deformed” in the story many times, though no one can say why, he is an evil man who is repugnant and cruel. Hyde is created or comes to life through a potion Jekyll creates that
how does Stevenson use contrast in the novel? As a whole, Stevenson uses the idea of duality to criticise the Victorian respectable society. By portraying every character in the novella to have dual sides, he suggests that his gap between appearance and reality is what makes people and places of Victorian London hypocritical. For instance, Jekyll appears respectable until he puts on a “thick cloak” of Hyde.
People often know the “Jekyll and Hyde” disease as a person having two distinctive personalities. In the novel that was the source of the disease name The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde are one person that has two personalities. Their differences mainly appear in their personality and morality, while their similarities are point of view on style of arts, colors, and designs but also their life identities. Jekyll and Hyde are at opposite ends of the morality and personality spectrum, but have similarities in factors of artistic taste, property, identity. Hyde has differences with Jekyll in personality and education.
Michael Benschop Ms. Huebbe English 12 24th February 2023 Who is the Scariest Creature Essay Throughout the literary works of Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the prominent supernatural horrors written within these novels are clearly seen, with both of these works featuring physical monsters that create chaos within their respective worlds. When analyzing these horrors, a deeper level begins to appear, with the focus shifting from the physical monsters of The Creature and Mr. Hyde, to the creators of these beasts, being Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Henry Jeykll.
The stories of Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein show two scientists who decide to push the limits of science as a consequence of their immoral desires. From a young age Victor Frankenstein has an early love of natural philosophers after he finds an old book written by Cornelius Agrippa. Natural philosophy, known today as ‘science’ is what sparks Frankenstein’s enthusiasm for the “elixir of life” and raising “ghosts or devils”. He soon decides the work of the old philosophers is “despicable” after he meets with a scientist who teaches him about galvanism. Galvanism involved electricity being used in scientific practices, which allowed the reviving of body parts from recently dead humans and animals.
“Hyde” is just Jekyll, having transformed his body into something unrecognizable". Jekyll does not make the potion to take away all evil away from himself. He created a potion that would allow himself to express his feelings without feeling guilt and facing any consequences effecting his respectable self. Dr. Jekyll in the novella is a respected professor and well known around the town. While Hyde on the other hand is almost the complete opposite.
One final point to compare is how accurately the movies set the scene, especially since Stevenson emphasized how dark the streets of London were with descriptions like “sinister block” and “sordid negligence”. The 1920 version does well with keeping the frames of the streets of London dark and dreary, but the 1931 version hardly showed the streets at all and if they did, they seemed far too cheery and not as if something dark and verging on the supernatural was happening. A few other things that helped to set the scene or keep accuracy in both movies is that Jekyll looks into a mirror when he became Hyde, the cane is used to connect Jekyll with a murder, and Jekyll does instruct Poole to allow Hyde to come and go as he pleases. In conclusion,
On October 29th, 2016, I watched Jekyll and Hyde at the Palm Canyon Theatre. In this play, Jekyll tries to convince the board to let him use his “cure” which should fix all of the bad people in the world. However, the board declines to allow him to use it. This causes him to test it out on himself; consequently, Hyde ends up being created. This causes Jekyll to not be heard from for a week, since he is dealing with two personalities.
When I was younger, my dad always seemed to leave back and forth never staying with the family I’d wish he’d built. He had two sides to him: it was as if he was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Dr. Jekyll side always telling corny jokes, cooking five course meals, bonding with what our family should have always looked like, or singing old Elvis songs. The Mr. Hyde side always appearing as if he had rolled in sweat. He would start spewing words of profanity from the rooftops, throwing violent tantrums, and showing abusive tendencies.
There are a number of differences and few similarities between the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The differences between the two men are mental, physical and moral. They are two separate personalities. Dr. Jekyll is an extremely intelligent and sane man with many good friends, known for his kindness and affectionate nature. On the other hand, Mr. Hyde is less educated, detestable and a loner.
Gabriel John Utterson, a lawyer, is on his weekly walk with his cousin, Richard Enfield. They reach a door leading into a rather large house, and Enfield tells Utterson of an encounter he had some months ago between a man and a young girl. The man, a sinister figure named Edward Hyde, and the young girl accidentally bump into one another, but Hyde proceeds to trample her. Enfield chases after Hyde and forces Hyde to pay £100 to avoid a scandal for his behaviour. Hyde leads them to this door, which he enters and re-emerges with £10 in gold and a cheque for the rest.
Analyzing the Lovingly Hateful Tone The inevitable despair love causes, leads to the arrival of new beginnings that can tear apart the passion that was once the fruit of an individual's inspiration. In “The Apparition” the narrator relates that once he is dead he will come back and haunt his lover for having made him feel less and lead her to a life full of anxiety. He thoroughly explains the desperation that she will feel once his spirit returns after she thinks she has gotten rid of him. Not only does he state that he will return to her life, but he foretells that her new lover will turn his back on her, and all of this is tied to the love that she killed.
