Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Essay -- English Literature

Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeThis novel is more than just a traditional horror story as it has manyhidden and complex meanings and explanations, of what appear and wouldhave normally before this book, been simple events. Stevenson has verystrong opinions and some(a) are expressed in the book.A traditional horror story would each be a super naturalIn this novel Stevensons characters, Jekyll and Hyde, are stereotypesof people who are good and evil. The good is the friendly doctor(the caring profession) and the evil is the hunched, horrible murderer.These two stereotypes combine to create the average man who has thecapacity to be both good and evil, and they have both good andevil thoughts and emotions. All people have the same emotions, somegood and some bad and, deal Hyde, when you follow the evil emotionslike hate, jealousy and revenge, you are considered evil. Jekyll andHyde both have these evil emotions but what makes Jekyll good isthat he hides them, Jekyll is driven by reason whereas Hyde is drivenby desire, hell do what he wants when he wants.Londonand Jekylls HousesThe street where Jekyll lives is described as merely an anonymousstreet in London, whose shop fronts like rows of smiling women havea brightness that stands out in contrast to the dingy neighborhood.And yet on this street, two doors from the corner, stands a dreary,Gothic house, which bore in every feature the marks of prolonged andsordid negligence. As we proceed further in the novel, Jekyllshouses will be seen to have their own connection with the charactersprosperous, respectable, as well as threatening, mysterious, andsinister. It is clear by each of its two appearances the respectableJe... ...public has seen only aveneer of my real self. This is true due mostly to the incident that noone knew Mr. Hyde was a part of Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll constantlyemphasizes the greatness of his background. He reminds us of hiswealthy family, and great education. But he also states that man isnot truly one, but truly two.Dr. Jekyll needed something, or someone to represent the evil whichhas built up inside of him. He created this through experiments, whichlead to a potion. This potion transformed him anytime he wanted. Hewas transformed into Mr. Hyde. Evil is just a small portion of men,perhaps that is why Mr. Hyde had a dwarfish appearance. The main crestwas that the potion took over his life, and Dr. Jekyll finallyrealizes he is unable to transform back into his goodness. He attemptsto commit suicide, as this is his only way of destroying Mr. Hyde.