Compare And Contrast Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Compare and contrast the ways in which Shakespeare, Stevenson, and Carter present good and evil in “Macbeth”, “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, “The Bloody Chamber”, “The Company of Wolves”, “The Tiger’s Bride”, and “The Courtship of Mr Lyon”.

The theme of good and evil is prominent throughout these texts. In “Macbeth” we are first greeted by the honourable thane of Glamis, Macbeth, who is described as a war hero: “For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)” and “If I say sooth, I must report that they were / As cannons overcharged with double cracks.” This implies at once that Macbeth is, or appears to be, a force for good, as he is described as a glorified war hero who fought well for his country. The same can be said

Many of the elements from “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” can be related to the theme of evil, from the gothic theme surrounding the novella, to Mr. Hyde himself, and even Mr. Hyde’s housekeeper is portrayed as evil, as we see in: “She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy: but her manners were

From “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” we get "And sometimes that face, [...] seemed to me like a mask, as if his real face, the face that truly reflected all the life he has led in the world before he met me, before even, I was born, as though that face lay underneath this mask." The masks are important as we can deduce that they are hiding the personality underneath, as on first sight both the beasts from “The Tiger’s Bride” and “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” may come over as evil because they are beasts, but inside they are actually not all bad as we learn in both the stories. So masks are used to hide the true personality of these characters which can be linked to the theme of Good and Evil as either one (someone good or evil) may try and hide their true self behind a mask. The rooms in these texts are also very important in the presentation of evil as we get the torture room from “The Bloody Chamber” where the Marquis killed his victims and we have Dr. Jekyll’s lab from “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” where he conducts his experiments and creates the potion to transform himself into Mr. Hyde. There is also Duncan’s chamber from “Macbeth” where Macbeth kills