... were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross...`. Their dark clothes are menacing and hint about them being savages in the future. Their clothing is extremely unsuitable for their new surroundings and they soon take them off. ...

... sordid places of Old town in Edinburgh. Dr. Jekyll creates an alter ego as society would not allow him to live a life of evil and they would attack him if we tried. "I was driven to reflect deeply and ...

... London was very dark due to the industrial London smog, and this adds to the atmosphere of fear, creating tension to make the reader feel uneasy. Stevenson presents the atmosphere of chill and darkness, therefore making the reader have a ...

... this is the end and they will finally find out what is going on. Then the first envelope is open an again no joy but the audience continue to read on with the fresh hope that soon this envelope will ...

... men in Victorian England, though not quite in the literal sense. It was typical of middle class men in the 19th century to abandon there happy and more adventurous selves and put on a more sensible and repressed self. Jekyll ...

... a setting to create, it was already there for Stevenson to use. The book is a mysterious gothic-horror, involving murders. With London the scene is already set for a book like this, with all the dark, dingy, old and smelly ...

... the drug. "Before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of abject terror and despair, as froze the blood of the two gentleman below," this shows that Jekyll is scared of turning into Hyde ...

... Stevenson was fascinated by this polarisation, this was maybe because his father was a strict Protestant calvinist. In his writing Stevenson highlights the extremes of society because this was something which was a feature of his life, he had been ...

... to draw a conclusion about his character and to what extent the title quote is true. I believe that the quote "If I am the chief of sinners than I am the chief of sufferers also" essentially refers to Jekyll transforming ...

... differences between the two books and the two outsiders. The reader from the first time they are met views both Ben and Hyde as outsiders. Harriet just after she has given birth to Ben describes him as "a troll or ...

... the 'middle class' is Lessing's book and not Stephenson's, where people lived in their house on the outskirts of London, as Harriet and David do. This is different to Jekyll and Hyde, where Stephenson generally describes inner-city London. In Jekyll ...

... believed that the origin of species, which claimed that human beings had evolved from apes, was very frightening and many people also had made fun of these ideas. They thought of all scientists to be evil, wrong and people who ...

... "severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature." This quote shows how R.L. Stevenson refers to the dual nature of Henry Jekyll as "good and ill". We can see how the narrative viewpoint ...

... an invalid, and his father was often away on business as a lighthouse consultant, Robert had a full time nurse - Miss Alison Cunningham - a woman with strong Christian values. Stevenson was often so terrified of the stories Miss ...

... with them for a very long period of time. He is not very social and appears not to favour visiting places. 'He enjoyed the theatre, but had not crossed the door of one for twenty years'. Mr. Utterson freely reveals that ...

... had stopped him and the child's parents arrived with the doctor. The people present decided to force the man to pay compensation to the child's parents; he agreed and went through the grimy door to the sombre building. He returned ...

... all...I was like my neighbours.' Dr. Jekyll also refers to religion a lot. He says that it brands his 'pleasures' as evil. This view may have been due to Stevenson's strict Calvinistic upbringing. Edinburgh was very like London, and so ...

... life without any sin. Even though the cultural context influences people, not every Victorian person obeyed the values outside the public. The Victorian people had paradoxical views because they would go out drinking and also the porn industry was famous ...

... In 'Lord of the Flies' Jack and Ralph first met when the conch is blown. Jack leading the choir is described as 'tall, thin and bony: his hair was red' 'His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness' ...

... of premature twilight.' This is a first hand example of the split personality coming through, the darkness showing through too early, damp, a total opposite to the respectable setting of Victorian London. Many people in Victorian times believed in the theory ...

... After these Jekyll disappears as well, Mr.Utterson tries hard to solve all the mystery and happenings. This is the story from chapter one to chapter two. 'Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde' is so mysterious novel, and the reader is left in suspense by ...

... lived and the 'Old black city'- where there is disease, poverty and overcrowding. Stevenson conveys the middle- class people that even though there is evil in 'Old black city' there are also evil inside the middle-class as well. This contrasts ...

... DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.' It is a gothic horror story set in the 19th century. This book inspired many great novels in the genre, a few of the best are Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' 1818, Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Ugly ...

... boy inside the grown man which due to Hyde's physical status, he looks and feels younger. In the novella, Stevenson refers in many physical ways to his duality. The first is Mr. Hyde's mouth of entry to the shared residence which, ...

... desires. People rarely succumb to these desires or they do where it can't affect their reputation. Victorian culture was very repressive - people were supposed to be in control of their emotions at all times and their desires weren't to ...