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    person is there's always a downfall to every action. From Mary shelley's Frankenstein the character victor Frankenstein the monster experiences evil for the first time. In Robert Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person trying to be free but falling into evil. Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde convey a common theme of even the best of people are subject to evil. Mary Shelley uses the character and events to develop

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    In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses many rhetorical devices. Each of the ones he uses helps to create the mood of the book. The novel uses imagery,diction, and details to create a mysterious mood. Robert Louis Stevenson uses imagery in many ways to create a mysterious mood in his writing. Mr. Hyde lived in a house, where “the door… was blistered and destained”(49). The quote shows how the door looked proving that the man living there did not care about his appearance

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    this story is created by a nightmare dreamt by Robert louis Stevenson, it has his perspectives hidden in every scene created. Jekyll's experiment to free his evil side from the constraints of conscience and free is good side the temptations of evil both succeed and fail on different extents. The lead to the big question, what was Stevenson's understanding concerning the essence of human nature? In this novel , Robert Louis Stevenson Gives examples that the experiment to transform Jekyll

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    Robert Louis Stevenson made one great story. A story that gives us a perspective of the societies normal good and bad person. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are total opposites although in some ways are alike. To find the qualities that are the same you have to really dig into this story and get into it. In the whole story it describes the differences between them both, rich and poor, ugly and handsome, and one has meaning and the other does not. Dr. Jekyll is described as a smooth faced man. A man

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    The author, Robert Louis Stevenson presents the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a unique and compelling way. Many aspects of the short story can be interpreted in different ways as its complexity can overpower the book transient storyline. One aspect of the book that can be considered controversial is the way Stevenson presents the novella and the book's historical context. Although, Stevenson’s work can be considered engaging, it can also lead the reader to question the reasoning

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    Henry Jekyll revealed that he held back all his emotions for many years, as he wanted to appear to be a placid man of great reputability (Stevenson 76). To his dismay, Jekyll changed throughout the novel. Not in the sense of him becoming physically changed into Mr. Edward Hyde, but psychologically he accepted who he was, which was something he had never done before (Tudor and Hojbota 206+).

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    Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson : ACE Although all three articles do justice to Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and career, Poetryfoundation.org provides the best understanding of the author and The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. First off, according to Biography.com, “Stevenson became a literary celebrity during his life when works such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were released to eager audiences.” The statement, although true, doesn’t

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    Robert Louis Stevenson novella Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson uses physical descriptions to reflect good and evil in London and Soho. The use of of physical descriptions of Soho establishes the feeling of evil. Utterson and Inspector Newcomen go to Hyde's house to arrest him for the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. Utterson and Newcomen head to Soho when they arrived “the dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses with its muddy ways and slatternly passengers” (Stevenson 26). These

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    In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author draws attention to a contradiction between good and evil through the use of figurative language. I choose the passage in which a maid witnesses the Carew murder committing by Mr. Hyde to base my artwork because it creates a nightmarish and merciless scene. In the novel, Stevenson describes the crime as “the horror” that it can bring fear and distress to readers. The crime is sudden and severe as the maid observes

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    evil was a wide topic in the Victorian Era. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s mystery novella, Stevenson uses physical descriptions to represent good and evil. Physical descriptions of Hyde are correlated with the feeling of evil. When Utterson goes to speak with Hyde, Utterson notices that something with Hyde is not right. Utterson mused, “Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation” (Stevenson 14). The deformation and the pale look makes Hyde represent

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