Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Essay -- English Literature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886 as a shilling shockernovella indite by the young novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. At thattime there was a surfeit of cheap horror novellas. Stevensons novellawas different because it explored the evil inside human kind. I go forthlook into Victorian attitudes and how these influenced Victorian career.The cultural and historical context of the text is typical of theauthor but not his time because there was a contradiction betweenScience and religion and this novella scared mess aboutpossibilities of evil. Victorian values at this time were very strictand those people who broke them were looked down on in the socialorder. Jekyll was the perfect upright Victorian man, he was tall, wellmannered, rich and had earned his place in society. Hyde on the otherhand was short, ugly and evil. Because Jekyll is so good he needssomething to take his mind off his 9 tenths life of relentlessstruggling and excoriation. He create d Hyde to do just that, to take hismind off and be evil and careless when he feels like it. This wholestory line would shed shocked a Victorian reader because of theparadox between religion and science. People were very duplicitous atthis time because they all knew about the underpass prostitution,drug-abuse and pornography, yet they did not talk about it or lettheir friends know about their drug habit or weekly trip to thebrothel. his shows the corruption of the club and the fraudulentmorals.In the text there are elements of thriller and horror. In chapter tenHenry Jekylls Full Statement of The Case there is a horrificdescription of Jekylls transformation into Hyde. The more or less rackingpan... ...sickliness ofJekyll. This means that the more Jekyll is disgusted at Hydesactions, the more Hydes powers of evil and destruction grow graduallystronger.Jekyll now wants out f the whole in two ways life and plans to kill himselfand Hyde as well.Henry Jekyll feels some remorse about leaving Hyde in the world. Hesays Will Hyde die on the scaffold? Or will he find the courage torelease himself at the last moment? God knows I am careless this ismy true hour of death, and then as I lay down my en, and proceed toseal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyllto an end.Her Henry Jekyll has ended his own life rather than see himself turncompletely into Hyde. This novella has two morals one is not to messabout with your body and not to indulge in addition heavily in anythingbecause it turns out bad like the life of Henry Jekyll.