... Stevenson describes the bright and colourful shop fronts, in a dirty back street alley in London, but as you go on you enter the dark alleyway behind the shops full of run down buildings. This is symbolic of people who ...

... starts to creep in as the only alternative would be hell "conflagration" makes you think of a fire, as if it really is a virtual hell on Earth. "Twilight" although it is nine in the morning the appearance of night ...

... the conscious mind. Stevenson has used these consequences for Mr Hyde's character, where he has exiled all evil to the unconscious mind in an attempt to be good. It is never mentioned in the novel as to why Mr Hyde ...

... Jekyll believes he is creating. The flaw that leads to Jekyll's downfall is his thinking in binary terms when he says, "man is not truly one, but truly two" (55). On the simplest level, Jekyll is a respectable scientist, but ...

... overhead, was still bright with sunset." This reference to the weather symbolises the split personality of Dr Jekyll. The struggle between the light above and the darkness below, represents the conflict between good and evil. This presents a ...

... creates a gothic atmosphere, as it is very common in gothic stories to have only one light source being the moon. The Gothic atmosphere makes the reader feel uneasy and nervous. The fact that it is a "pale moon" suggests ...

... town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street, and all the folks asleep - street after sleep, all lighted up as if for a procession, and all as empty as a church - till ...

... to its dingy neighbourhood' whereas 'the street was small and what is called quiet but it drove a thriving trade on the week-day'. This tells the reader the difference between the poor side and the rich side in Victorian times, this ...

... them to their own devices - if they need you, they'll let you know. Why? Divide the class into groups, allotting one half 'A' and the other 'B' - speaking and listening marks available here. 2 Discuss: Before you begin reading the ...

... reading the exerpt creates a dark atmosphere, and it paves the way for the future of the novel. This is achieved by use of dark colours, and 'naked' implies that after Jim has escaped there is nowhere that he can ...

... 'freshly painted shutters and well polished brasses' making the whole street sound like it has an air of general cleanliness. In the First chapter, also 'The Story of the door' there is another opposite. This is between Mr Hyde and the ...

... on the outside, rather like "Dr Jekyll" but on the inside they tended to be evil and deceitful like "Mr Hyde". We speak of people having a "Jekyll and Hyde" personality even today, and it is now a well-known phrase ...

... Hyde" originated in a dream Stevenson once had. "Lord of the flies" also reflects it's 1950's setting. Golding's writing was influenced by adventure stories such as Treasure Island, which, coincidently, was written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Golding creates a specific ...

... hungry, dreary". He didn't allow himself pleasures; "he drank gin...to mortify a taste for vintages" and "he enjoyed the theatre, [but] had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years". This repression and denial of pleasures causes dire consequences ...

... human nature, later providing the theme for 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. Throughout the history of the book critics have struggled to choose the genre in which the book falls. The most popular opinion is that it ...

... personality (Stevenson 1). Freud's theory explains that humans can be ruled by their hidden impulses and passions instead of their rational thoughts. The imbalance of the id, ego, and superego is reflected in the double life of Henry Jekyll. In ...

... with hypocrisy and scandal, where the aim was not to be against it, but to make sure you were not caught doing it. This was true Victorian England. We can see this hypocrisy and hidden life in the novel, represented ...

... was afraid to even close his eyes and go to sleep he was so afraid, and thought he was going to go to hell if he slept. He had nightmares when he DID get to sleep, the book "Dr Jekyl ...

... Jekyll is in fact the sinister and menacing murderer Mr Hyde. This captivating story is perhaps the most famous in its gothic genre, selling forty five thousand copies within its first few months. Even now the term 'Jekyll and Hyde' ...

... At one end we have a respectable, clean and charming street, which even lives up to the standards of two very respected middle-class gentlemen, but at the other end there is a sinister building thrust forward its gable on the ...

... backwards in sentiment; lean, long dusty, dreary, and yet somehow loveable. This shows that Mr Utterson has two sides to him just like Dr Jekyll has. On one hand it says he is boring and cold but on another hand ...

... Jekyll soon ran out of potion, as he had to use some of it every time he unwillingly became Hyde, until eventually he could no longer become Jekyll again. Eventually Utterson (Jekyll's lawyer, and close friend) and a servant of Jekyll's ...

... pressure on him to accomplish great things in life. Some people would say that Jekyll did his experiment in the interest of science and that he was pushed by society's expectations to make groundbreaking discoveries; he claims, after all, that ...

... Scotland on 13 November 1850, the only child born to Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829-1897) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a civil engineer and pioneering designer of lighthouses. He would later change "Lewis" to "Louis", pronounced "Lewis". When young Louis was not ...

... around Jekyll as the main aspect. There is no crystal clear protagonist. Jekyll is certainly the stem of the scientific aspects of the novel, and at the time people were very superstitious about scientific discoveries. Horrors tend to be based on ...