... with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness". However, when angered "The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes". He is ...

... with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness". However, when angered "The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes". He is ...

... of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness". However, when angered "The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes". ...

... very similar to the ones he used in his book. This is probably why it was such a huge success. In this essay I will be analysing and examining how Stevenson represented good and evil in his book, and the duality ...

... taste for hunting and sex. Then on the other hand is the 'superego', your conscience and morality, with the "floater" between the two, the 'ego'. Jekyll stresses that, "man is not truly one, but truly two." This all links to the ...

... of these instances is when we meet Hyde's landlady. She is described as having an "evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent." This shows duality because although she looks evil, her manners suggest that she is not. When ...

... this problem would occur somewhere in the novel and anticipated it, he may have even planned it. But he still chose to use the first person narrative, although it is not always the easiest narrative to follow as "I" and ...

... witnesses to make the book more believable. Dr. Lanyon uses a complex vocabulary, such as "justify the formality of registration" to show that he is an educated man, and is trusted to tell the truth. Moreover, Stevenson uses official documents ...

... witnesses to make the book more believable. Dr. Lanyon uses a complex vocabulary, such as "justify the formality of registration" to show that he is an educated man, and is trusted to tell the truth. Moreover, Stevenson uses official documents ...

... of his background: "Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance...", and his few hobbies, but little background information is given about any of the characters. Utterson, Jekyll and Lanyon all seem to be close friends at the ...

... part of Mr Hyde, this being the wholly evil side to him and Dr Jekyll being the lighter side of him. He accomplished this metamorphoses by making a potion to transform himself. The concept being behind this being that a ...

... the main characters. Robert Louis Stevenson shows the relationship between the good and evil prototypes in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Throughout this novel, the reader becomes familiar with the personality persona of Dr. Jekyll and observes him as a ...

... always alone and isolated as he was an only child so he could not discuss his feelings with anyone. This is closely linked to Jekyll not telling anyone about his double life and split personality. In university he led a ...

... ground." The fact that he trampled over someone for no apparent reason, shocks the reader. But it is made worse because it is a little girl so the reader has more sympathy for her, where as if it was a ...

... and rich gentleman, representing what was valued in Victorian society. When Jekyll is transformed into Hyde, Stevenson shows that the character of Hyde is to be unrespectable, and poorer. He is an assaulter and a murderer. There is no apparent ...

... 19th century London lead him to set his novel in that city as it is an analogy to the personality of Jekyll and Hyde. Through the character of Mr. Utterson, we learn how reputable and restrained in demeanor the upper ...

... forward." The use of alliteration makes it even more forceful. "Thrust" is an active verb, which makes it more intimidating. The word is associated with evil. This helps to build on the mysteriousness and create a tense atmosphere. The mysterious ...

... end of the century people began to question the ideals of progress and civilisation and many adopted pessimistic attitudes towards it. Stevenson's novel, published in 1886, is symptomatic of this obsession with progress and portrays its opinions as such, drawing ...

... out in contrast...cleanliness and gaiety of note" demonstrate this point. The full of life, happy street leads the reader to believe that this description describes some of the characters personalities, good etc. The atmosphere created by the thriving street is ...

... existing in every one he created a man that isolated evil inside him and had another personality that was of pure corruption. Stephenson chose London for his setting because of the extreme contrast between wealth and poverty. He did this ...

... of almost any scale. Gertrude Jekyll was born in 1843, the fourth of six surviving children, into an affluent, artistic family. As a young girl her parents allowed her to take the unusual step of attending South Kensington's School of ...

... remained absent for over three months unexplained. Up to this point the only information Utterson had on Hyde had come from his friend Richard Enfield. Richard said that he had seen Hyde trample calmly over a young girl, leaving her ...

... issues that are faced in the story, such as reputation, the duplicity within human and scientific findings. The significant contrast between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one being good-natured man with an exceptional reputation and the other being a threat to ...

... emotions. All people have the same emotions, some good and some bad and, like Hyde, when you follow the evil emotions like hate, jealousy and revenge, you are considered evil yourself. Jekyll and Hyde both have these 'evil' emotions but ...

... of a catholic faith, or similar religion, this came as a shock to many and Darwin was ridiculed. But his worked showed the link that humans have to primates and how they are their ancestors. This is shown y Stephenson ...