Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Assignment
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Wide Reading Assignment Term 3
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or Jekyll and Hyde for short, is a mystifying short horror story written by Robert Louis Stevenson and set in Victorian England. It encounters the mystery of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde through the eyes of mild-mannered lawyer, Mr Utterson. Stevenson has skilfully characterised Jekyll, Hyde and Mr Utterson, who is the ultimate Victorian, into a complex and baffling plot based upon a true story. Its age defying themes include science vs. supernatural, the effects of society on the individual and the Jekyll/Hyde dual personality.
Henry Jekyll is a medical doctor that undertakes experiments in an attempt to purify his good side …show more content…
A certain Mr Hyde tramples a girl and the check he gives is signed by Utterson’s good friend Henry Jekyll, which they both find quite suspicious. Utterson’s suspicions are further aroused when he discovers that Hyde is listed as Jekyll’s heir. The remainder of the story is spent trying to figure out why “Jekyll and Hyde are associated” in such a way. The plot is very convincing and became the world’s pioneer into horror, eventually followed by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the book that formally introduced the world to the genre of horror.
This short story could best be described as a gothic horror book. This “shilling thriller” contains traits from the Gothic genre such as those in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as some aspects of horror. It does a fair job of following the genre’s rules by having the setting and half of the plot abide by gothic rules and the other half of the plot and the characters abide horror rules. It cannot be directly compared with another book due to its uniqueness but Hyde can be viewed as somewhat of a hybrid between Dracula and Frankenstein, taking characteristics from both supernatural
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or Jekyll and Hyde for short, is a mystifying short horror story written by Robert Louis Stevenson and set in Victorian England. It encounters the mystery of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde through the eyes of mild-mannered lawyer, Mr Utterson. Stevenson has skilfully characterised Jekyll, Hyde and Mr Utterson, who is the ultimate Victorian, into a complex and baffling plot based upon a true story. Its age defying themes include science vs. supernatural, the effects of society on the individual and the Jekyll/Hyde dual personality.
Henry Jekyll is a medical doctor that undertakes experiments in an attempt to purify his good side …show more content…
A certain Mr Hyde tramples a girl and the check he gives is signed by Utterson’s good friend Henry Jekyll, which they both find quite suspicious. Utterson’s suspicions are further aroused when he discovers that Hyde is listed as Jekyll’s heir. The remainder of the story is spent trying to figure out why “Jekyll and Hyde are associated” in such a way. The plot is very convincing and became the world’s pioneer into horror, eventually followed by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the book that formally introduced the world to the genre of horror.
This short story could best be described as a gothic horror book. This “shilling thriller” contains traits from the Gothic genre such as those in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as some aspects of horror. It does a fair job of following the genre’s rules by having the setting and half of the plot abide by gothic rules and the other half of the plot and the characters abide horror rules. It cannot be directly compared with another book due to its uniqueness but Hyde can be viewed as somewhat of a hybrid between Dracula and Frankenstein, taking characteristics from both supernatural