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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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The narrative of ‘The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ written by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1886 and illustrates the story of a scientist named Dr. Jekyll who creates a potion that allows him to switch between two beings. The novel is set in Victorian England and captures the moral that “man is truly two.” Throughout this fiction, Stevenson creates two different atmospheres of London; dark and mysterious during the night but bright and merry during the day, relating the moods of the weather to the state of the story and the main character at that point in the novel. Stevenson establishes a gloomy and curious setting when building up suspense; “a great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind
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