... 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, ...

... poems - were sufficient, and any dealings with a more sinister genre would prevent him from entering Heaven. Stevenson's father's views were reflected in a confused Edinburgh, where religious views were affecting a whole society... At a time when Charles Darwin's ...

... set the mood and describe what Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde represent. An alternative description is "...a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless... was brilliantly lit by the full ...

... novel because the story was related to their Life style eg.privacy and reputation was very important to them as well as the characters in the story. And it's popular in modern era because even now there are people who are ...

... were being lived around this era. Stevenson not only uses Jekyll and Hyde to communicate the theme of duality; he reinforces his point by compounding hidden metaphors into the text. The first time we can identify this is in the first ...

... other as they walked by in the street" The story "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is generally about a man, Dr Jekyll, who has an alter ego, or an evil side, Mr Hyde, which is only erupted when he takes a ...

... in the belief of Dr Jekyll and thinks that humans are 'not truly one, but two.' That is why Dr Jekyll created the potion that would turn himself from Jekyll to Hyde. Hyde is created so that Jekyll can get ...

... related by Mr Enfield. The effects of these descriptions build up a sinister atmosphere that prepare us for the characters and the incidents that happen later in the book. The gothic setting increases the effect of horror in the novel, it ...

... Stevenson uses Dr Jekyll to show the good and admired side of a person's human nature. It is true that Jekyll largely appears as moral and decent, engaging in charity work and enjoying a reputation as a courteous and ...

... appearance of someone/something might not be the reality, i.e. Dr Jekyll appears to be a respectable man in society at the beginning of the book but the reality of his dark secrets and strange links with Mr Hyde show otherwise. ...

... are physically the same person they are two separate entities. This is a connective to the theme of London as this city is one of which has respect both internally and externally of Britain, in the Victorian day and age. ...

... Jekyll and Hyde. A harsh contrast of the two beings is evident at the time of Jekyll's first interaction with the potion. Jekyll, a big and pleasant looking man was transformed into Hyde, a man with distorted frame and ugly ...

... of society. People couldn't be seen with prostitutes, or in bars getting drunk, they couldn't cause disturbances, swear in public, fight and many other shameful things. There weren't any laws to stop these from happening; people just did not do ...

... the theme for the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The opening chapter begins a novel that is split into three parts and the atmosphere builds up gradually to one of horror. The basic theme of the novel ...

... profession. Poole is the servant of Jekyll. It is fair to say that each person has strong beliefs in God, as people would be at the time this story was set. This doesn't seem to apply to Hyde who seems ...

... are kept throughout Jekyll and Hyde. This is mainly the cause of hidden identities and people living separate lives, one being the good, the public figure seen, and the second life being the dark and evil side. In the novel, ...

... the perfect setting for a gothic novel as it enhances the feeling of terror and mystery. Dracula also contains a flavour of gloom and horror by using weather as an important kind of metaphor. Stoker uses "dark rolling clouds...heavy air...oppressive ...