... 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 ...

... dark, foggy, silent roads to achieve these qualities. It also takes place in the winter, the time of year when it is the coldest, darkest and quietest. These are all gothic elements used throughout the story. In the first chapter we ...

... dreams, or in fairy tales. There is an unintegrated aspect of Self. Both Jekyll and Hyde share portions of that self. They are one in the same, yet they are distinctive. One is ego, while the other is shadow. The ego ...

... when the reader feels the same shock as Utterson. Stevenson chose Utterson because the character of Utterson is good so the reader can compare good (Mr Utterson) and Bad (Hyde). Mr Utterson is kept in the dark on the whole ...

... lengthy main street, dimly lit by the sickly yellow light of the gas lamps towering overhead. The lampposts, found at regular intervals, were tall and gave an artificial but eerie feel to the area. They gave off a peculiar energy, ...

... Gino's Café where he watches Dick and Cindy Steele they are kind of hero's in Robert's eye's. The thing that he likes most about them is the attraction of there life style. "For a moment he wondered if he was, in ...

... habits. ' Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he, 'but Mrs Hudson knocked me up for we have a case today and he should be arriving any minute now. A slow and heavy step, which ...

... speak, they walk at a brisk pace and they eagerly wait for the site of friends. If they obviously don't have anything to say to each other and neither of them want to be there, why do they do this? ...

... from the war in which he fought in, which was driven by pure evil in Nazi Germany (quoted by Golding). When Golding wrote 'Lord of the files' a lot of theories about human behaviour were floating around. One of the ...

... to release Hyde, his animalistic id. Stevenson was plagued by ill-health as a child, and was taken care of by a nurse. The nurse was a strong Christian, and thrust stories upon him of evil people burning in hell for eternity, ...