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    unbeknownst to the characters in the book‚ but impacts them in a very obvious way. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson shows a man who is conflicted by his dual nature‚ it is evident that he has a dissociated personality and this negatively impacts his everyday life. Eventually‚ this dual nature takes over his whole life and drives him to death. In order to understand Dr. Henry Jekyll’s downward spiral it is key to understand the disorder that he had. Dissociative Identity

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    between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is that they are a part of each other. Dr. Jekyll always knew there was some part of him locked away deep inside and it happened to be an evil side of him. Dr. Jekyll was risking his life for this transformation‚ even while going through it was painful. When he finally got the components together and drank it Dr. Jekyll felt younger‚ and alive. He saw himself and knew he wouldn’t be welcomed much into the community but it was still himself within a new character. Dr. Jekyll

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde In the famous novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde there are many underlying themes surrounding the story line. The story takes on a dark and mysterious aspect that seems to allude to something more then what it is letting on. One major theme that I saw throughout the entire story was addiction or substance abuse. The dual personality of Jekyll and Hyde is unnatural and their actions make the reader believe that there is a serious problem going on. The novel

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    sophisticated language Jekyll and Hyde Is a novella while Medea is a play Both use many language techniques Jekyll and Hyde is horror while Medea is fantasy Both are engaging Jekyll and Hyde is very mysterious and very suspenseful while Medea is very planned out. Both written long ago Jekyll and Mr Hyde ended with the bad guy dying while Medea finishes with the bad person walking away alive. Both contain moral messages Medea has unhappy ending while Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has happy ending. Both

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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ Robert Louis Stevenson presented dualism by the obsession of Dr. Jekyll’s own darker/ evil side of his own. Before the climax of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde they revealed that Hyde and Jekyll are the same person‚ and the duality of their own personalities will creates a tension between the good‚ social Jekyll and Hyde who seems to be causing harm and mayhem‚ and it looks like it is Jekyll who will be overtaken somehow by Hyde. One of the interesting

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    really are‚” Sirius Black. In the book Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis StevensonJekyll tries to separate himself into two versions- good and evil. This book can be easily put into the category that states good and evil lives in all of us and the struggle we find naturally with the two sides. Jekyll battles the two‚ until he finds that the evil he found inside him‚ Mr. Hyde‚ has become stronger than the good. When Hyde is found dead it shows that there was a weakness in

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    The novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ written by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ is based off a nightmare. He was interested in what can make a person bad and good at the same time. Stevenson used imagery‚ diction‚ and details‚ to convey a grim mood. In Stevenson’s novel‚ he used creepy imagery to convey a grim mood. “...the hair stood upon my head like quills” (92). This shows that when Poole saw the mysterious figure‚ he was spooked. “In the bottle of acids were long ago resolved” (77). The bottle

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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ drew people in with its drama‚ intrigue‚ and its characters. The readers were enthralled with the relationship of Jekyll and Hyde and how they interacted. This relationship was never forgotten as it is still used today. This archetype can also be seen in the Marvel character Deadpool. He may save a life one minute‚ and then kill the same person the next. Deadpool is hated like Hyde‚ yet also loved like Jekyll. This archetype is

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    However‚ in both texts‚ they used the duality of human which is evil and goodness by using the idea of day and night‚ because in day‚ everything can be seen easily to everyone and because daytime is brighter than night‚ we can describe bright as a goodness of a human nature. On the other hand

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    The theme of ‘madness’ is demonstrated in the both The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by R. L . Stevenson and The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Both authors utilise the gothic genre to show the impact of madness to their central character. Stevenson explores the theme of madness through the conflicts between good and bad within humanity‚ in which Mr Hyde is used as a symbol of the consequences when humans let go of their morality to evil desires. While in Tell-tale Heart‚ the notion

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