League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mary Reilly, and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has spawned many retellings of Dr. Jekyll's
tale, as well as variations on the theme. The Jekyll and Hyde conceit
is one that lends itself to many different forms of literature, such
as motion pictures and sequential art. Sometimes liberties are taken
in reinterpretations of Mr. Hyde from the original text. This can be
distinguished in two recent works, The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen, a comic book miniseries by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill,
and Mary Reilly, a film by Stephen Frears.
The appearance of Mr. Hyde has always tended towards the
stereotypical hairy man. In fact, the transformation of Jekyll into
Hyde in movies seem like werewolf transformations. This comes from
the frequent mention of Hyde's hands as being "of a dusky pallor and
thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair" (82). Although Hyde's
face is never described as hairy, it tends to be a logical
assumption that if the hands are hairy, then the face may be as
well. Jekyll's own appearance is described by his lawyer, Utterson,
as being a "smooth-faced man of fifty" (44) and Hyde, for all
intents and purposes, is the opposite of Jekyll. The hairiness of
Hyde is maintained in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Hyde is
drawn as a dark brown man with coarse hair all over his arms and
chest, whereas Jekyll is a sm...
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...er features are in common. Robert Louis Stevenson, in writing The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde touched upon an universal
theme that many others would return to in the years after
Stevenson's novel was published.
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Mary Reilly. Dir. Stephen Frears. Perf. Julia Roberts and John Malkovich.
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Moore, Alan, and Kevin O'Neill. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
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In both The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the 1941 movie adaptation, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a strong representation of evil is present. Both the film and the novel are surrounded with sense of immorality and sin. The text and the film have economical and historical characteristics that help define evil. While the film alone has a strong representation of evil surrounding gender and relationships.
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In this essay on the story of Jekyll and Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson I will try to unravel the true meaning of the book and get inside the characters in the story created by Stevenson. A story of a man battling with his double personality.
my true hour of death, and then as I lay down my en, and proceed to
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author Robert Louis Stevenson uses Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to show the human duality. Everyone has a split personality, good and evil. Stevenson presents Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as two separate characters, instead of just one. Dr. Jekyll symbolizes the human composite of a person while Mr. Hyde symbolizes the absolute evil. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, who are indeed the same person, present good and evil throughout the novel.
“All human beings, as we meet them, are comingled out of good and bad” (pg. 78). says Jekyll, reflecting on human kind. In the story of the two characters, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the journey of switching back and forth becomes problematic rapidly. Throughout the story it becomes evident that it is harmful to try and separate the good and bad tendencies and hide the evil side. The experiments Jekyll went through seemed beneficial at first but later showed to be harmful.
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novel about dual identity, Dr. Henry Jekyll, an affluent surgeon, creates a potion by which he can transform into Edward Hyde, the physical manifestation of his evil side. After many months of thrilling nighttime criminal escapades through the streets of London, his antics under the cloak of Hyde get him in trouble when he slays prominent public figure Danvers Carew. Jekyll is so shocked by this deed of evil that he decides an end will be put to his transformations, a science he calls transcendental medicine. Much to his alarm, Jekyll finds that he now turns into Hyde without his wanting it, undeniably a side effect of the drug. After locking himself into his cabinet, in order to facilitate his use of the drug in case of spontaneous transformations, his concerned butler Poole alerts good friend Gabriel Utterson, a lawyer. Together, they break into the cabinet, only to find they body of Hyde, lifeless on the floor. The pair finds an envelope addressed to Utterson which shall supposedly explain why they cannot find the body of Henry Jekyll.
Jung insisted pleasure seeking, and conflict resolution is a part of human nature: Plus, religion and mystical archetypal combined influence one’s personality and behavior. Some conflicts arise due to repressed ancestral memories and past experiences that can impact the individual’s future aspirations (Alho, 2009). Likewise, Carlisle (1993) recalled, dissociative behaviors appear as pathological manifestations necessary for the conscious to operate unhampered by life’s demands. In this respect, dissociation applies to the natural hierarchy of the human psyche, with underlying attitudes for normal functioning. Adding the “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde functionality of the human mind” (p. 25). Carlisle (1993) concluded, each bare reason for the structural interplay between the adult, parent, and Gerald’s child-self.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a highly acclaimed novel, in which Jekyll is painted as the loving victim while Hyde is the murderous villain. In the case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the fact of the matter is one is a psychopath born cold-hearted, while the other is a sociopath created by society. Anti-social disorder is at the crux of the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, which reveals the psychotic characteristics, deprived social relations, and *** of the psychopath, Dr. Jekyll, and the sociopath, Mr. Hyde.
Keeping patients safe is essential in today’s health care system, but patient safety events that violate that safety are increasing each year. It was only recently, that the focus on patient safety was reinforced by a report prepared by Institute of medicine (IOM) entitled ” To err is human, building a safer health system”(Wakefield & Iliffe,2002).This report found that approx-imately 44,000 to 98,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors and that the majority was preventable. Deaths due to medical errors exceed deaths due to many other causes such as like HIV infections, breast cancer and even traffic accidents (Wakefield & Iliffe, 2002). After this IOM reports, President Clinton established quality interagency coordination task force with the help of government agencies. These government agencies are responsible for making health pol-icies regarding patient safety to which every HCO must follow (Schulman & Kim, 2000).
we deny our bad side. It looks at a doctor called Dr Jekyll who feels
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a fiction novel written around 1886. This novel is a science fiction horror-mystery set in Victorian London, England (Stevenson and Wolf). Dr. Jekyll enjoys the advantages of his double life to have as an outlet for his undignified desires; however, after some time, finds that having two separate lives does not mean two separate bodies. Mr. Hyde, experiencing the benefits of living an unrestricted independent life, ends up being held for murder. He and Dr. Jekyll face the consequences although Mr. Hyde is the one with blood on his hands. Being monstrous, Mr. Hyde’s evil is exposed through his appearance and questionable blackmailing of Dr. Jekyll: “Poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is that of [Mr. Hyde] your new friend” (Stevenson 30). The Victorian citizens become suspicious and deduce that Mr. Hyde is responsible for the recent crimes and murder. Stevenson illustrates characterization and personification to enhance the wickedness and tameness of the two characters; without these literary devices the suspense and duality would be lost.
power of one person to make a difference, we must also note the contributions of
In this novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson, we see throughout the story the different class rankings and how life was for them in the Victorian period. Utterson, Jekyll and the maid all portray some of the rankings that took place in the Victorian era. Life in the Victorian London era portrayed many unique characters such as Utterson, the maid and Jekyll. They are all seen as representations of the different elements that occur in the era.
Comparing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Jekyll Living in the 21st century is very exciting. Science and technology has advanced like never before. We have seen new medical vaccines to cure such horrific ailments as Polio, Small Pox, and further progression in the fight on AIDS. Medical procedures have advanced also, incorporating the use of science and technology to perform difficult surgical procedures, and other complicated calculations.