Literary Essay

In the class of LL.Writing we start to saw a type of piece of writing called Literary Essay so as we also read " The strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" we made a literary essay about the symbolism of the fantastic story

Essay on "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

"The strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" whose author is Robert Louis Stevenson.Talks about a scientist called Dr. Henry Jekyll who interested in the duality of human nature. He creates a potion to separate his two sides : the bad one and the good one, when he drinks the potion, he turn into his bad parts called Mr. Hyde that takes him to death. The symbolism of the story, Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, will be the topic of this essay.

To star with, the most important buildings in the story represent the connection between Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.On one hand, the laboratory symbolise the corrupt Hyde.It is the place where Mr.Hyde was born and died also he pass all the day the making potions and analysing things. " A certain sinister block of building". On the other hand, the respectable, prosperous- looking main house symbolises, the respectable Dr.Jekyll.  "The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon".

Now, the most physical ugliness and deformity of Mr. Hide, symbolises his lack of moral and ethics, because his deformed body represents the luck of respect that he had with people. He has been repressed for years. His hairness may indicate that he is not only Jekyll´s evil side, but he represents his instincts. "I never saw a man I so disliked" this was said by Utterson when he saw Mr. Hyde and he describe it.

A s a conclution, we can say that this story symbolises the badness of a scientific person called Dr.Jekyll, that made a potion and he became addictive to it, and he can not control the transformation. For us this doctor is so crazy that he create a potion that when he drinks it he transform in a more crazy man.For us it is a great story, because the craziness of the Doctor and of Mr. Hyde makes a tension that makes more interesting the story.






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