Dr. No

Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is an interesting story set to originally be published around Christmas time as horror stories instead of Father Christmas was popular during the Victorian age. Stevenson’s story however was quite popular for exploring a topic that no other novelist had covered yet in a horror story. Stevenson wrote about the split personality of Dr. Jekyll, who encompassed both himself as the original and the worse qualities that he…

Duality was a common theme in Victorian literature. Through the use of Duality the author gained the ability to criticize society, this is seen in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Both novels follow the lives of men who by the end of their lives have evolved into soulless individuals overrun by their guilty pleasures. While Jekyll splits his character into two by transforming into Mr. Hyde, Gray transfers his evilness…

One example of “progress” is in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert L. Stevenson. The “progress” is a technological one. As Dr. Jekyll produces a concoction, through his use of technology in the laboratory, that enables him to transform himself to Mr. Hyde. Although, this proved to be unsuccessful as he begins to transform into him when he doesn’t intend to, where eventually the potion ran out and he couldn’t turn back into himself again. This message here about “progress”…

Literary Contexts in Novels: Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a very intriguing book. It has the reader constantly trying to figure out how the relationships make sense, as if it is a detective book. Throughout out the book Robert Stevenson, the author, uses what is going on in his life to relate to this story. He does this through historical, social, religious and scientific contexts. First, the book was…

In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson, portrays the subject curiosity very well because other subjects such as duality and temptation are a result of it. Each character in the story has a different and distinct curiosity and those who do not choose to unravel the mystery are considered as bland and unimportant. All big ideas start off as small and innocent ones, but it is up to a person’s curiosity to where and how far they will take it. This curiosity separates the ones…

the culture in which they exist in “the monster is different made flesh, come to dwell among us” (7). Dr Jekyll depicted as a doctor and a seemingly moral citizen living within his society of which he confines and adheres to the stipulated regulations and thus suffers from repression, and the desire to be freed from the boundaries that were imposed on him. Mr.Hyde is perceived as a subconscious of Dr Jekyll yearning to be freed from the Victorian society, which is restrictive. thats why when…

In Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde the classic reading is that the two characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde symbolise the struggle between good and evil in each person.Yet, in an age where the view of criminality shift the focus from lower classes to higher classes, created a change in perspective where men's reputation was not as easily kept as it was before. Therefore, another reading of the text is that it exposes the changing late Victorian society…

society, we have all attempted to fall under certain ideals that society has established, but by trying to follow the belief of the masses, it has blurred the distinct line between who a person is and who society wants them to be. In both the novels Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A Doll’s House, the main characters exemplify an individual’s clash with the expectations and standards of society that serves as a hindrance towards the character’s search towards self-identity. Victorian society can be…

his good name as Doctor Jekyll. In the book, we never get the opportunity to see Hyde’s point of view, and that is because he doesn’t have one. Even when Doctor Jekyll looks like Hyde he thinks of himself as Jekyll. In the end of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll talks about himself while he was in Hyde’s body and always uses “I” when describing what Hyde would do. “I looked in the mirror and saw Hyde” “I awoke to see I had the hand of Hyde”. Even when he decided to talk about…

The duality of people is always there haunt us whether it is on the inside or outside. A guy named Dr.Jekyll does this experiment with himself to separate his good and evil side, The evil side is a character name Mr.Hyde and the good is Dr.Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll has a friend named Mr. Utterson in the book who wants to help Dr.Jekyll, He doesn't know Mr.hyde would not be separated with Dr.Jekyll. Dr.Jekyll kills himself when Mr.Utterson breaks into a lab he finds the body of Mr.hyde. Dr.Jekyll and…