Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson emphasizes on the omnipresence of dualistic attitudes in the average men on a daily basis. Dualism is defined by the dictionary as the division of an item into two contrasted aspects. Throughout the novel, Stevenson elaborates on this duality of human nature by creating a character named Jekyll, a very successful and known doctor, who has a physical and metamorphic alter-ego whom he calls Mr. Hyde. In this novel: duality in the

From the variety of themes and plot twists, Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ has become a worldwide classic and an insight into morals of the Victorian era – in particular Victorian London; the entire book is an eye opener of life at the time. An awful lot of this information can in fact be picked from the introduction which aims to put people in the position of Stevenson’s first readers – those with no preconceptions. From the very first page, the idea of dual

Introduction The purpose of my essay is to compare and contrast the novel titled Fight Club, written by Chuck Palahniuk, and the story, dated back to the Victorian age, known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson. I will compare these two works by evaluating how these two authors represent the theme of dual/split personalities within a specific character found in within each of their respective stories. Each author portrays the idea of dual personalities

According to Liu Hongli(刘红利 2011 )，Robert Louis Stevenson is a Victorian great romantic writers. His plot is compact, suspense, to seize the reader's eye. Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is his masterpiece and the hero Doctor Jekyll becomes dual personality of the artistic incarnation. Stevenson’s life is a mirror of that time period. Though he born in a religious atmosphere of middle-class family, he hated all kinds of taboos. His love life is also aggressive. He fell in love with a prostitute and then he

Stevenson seemed to use Darwin's theory in the transformation of Jekyll to Hyde, in the sense that Hyde is more "Ape like" than man. Although another reason for the novella causing such a sensation may have been it was simply an exciting read.

the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, but whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll The statement above comes from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and is one in which the notion or idea that a man can be not one person, but two complete individuals is introduced for discussion. One human being can inhabit a single body while at

into teenagers, they become extremely different: their appearance changes, and they may also become more defiant towards authority. This sort of change is apparent in the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a short novella by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the beginning, the main character, Jekyll, is naïve and has an extremely different view on Hyde than he does in the end. As his normal self, he cannot do as he wishes and has to preserve his good reputation, which is key in his time period

Everyone has an inner Hyde. The id part of our personality pushes us to indulge without compunction. This idea is imminent in the novel “The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson. In this novel, Dr. Henry Jekyll struggles with his addiction to a drug that allows him to satisfy his id while maintaining a moral code. We see him struggle with the duality of his persona that the drug grants him. That is, when Jekyll wishes to do bad things without guilt, he turns into Edward Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, is the tale of a wealthy man with an upstanding reputation, Dr. Jekyll, who secretly researches and discovers a way to transform himself into a different person, Mr. Hyde. No one knows that Mr. Hyde and the Dr. Jekyll are the same person until the very end of the story when Jekyll’s friends find a letter delineating his deeds. Jekyll maintained his virtuous reputation to appease the moral Victorian English society

In the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde it is regarded that these identities are two different persons but this is not the case, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are one in the same. There is much confusion when reading this literary work by Robert Louis Stevenson; this piece is regarded as horrific and disturbing in many ways. But the biggest twist is when it is reveled to the reader that these two people are the same and that below the surface of Dr.Jekyll is an evil man who enjoys committing evil