Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde book review

Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde book review

            This blog is part of my classroom activity assigned by our teacher. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is an 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Book name : Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and

                       Mr.Hyde

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson 

Type of work : Novel

Gerne: Gothic mystery story

Language : English

Time & Place written : 1885, Bournemouth,

                                        England 

First Publication : 1886

Narrator : The narrator is anonymous and 

                  Speaks in Third person 

Setting Time : The late 19th century

Setting place : London 

Protagonist  : Henry Jekyll

Themes : Good & Evil constant struggle

                  The duality of human nature

                  The importance of reputation 

Motifs :  Violence against innocents

                Silence

                Urban terror 

Symbols : Jekyll's house and laboratory

                  Doors

                  Hyde's Physical Appearance

        Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde characters

   

        Richard Parker

        Mr.Edward Hyde

        Dr.Henry Jekyll

        Mr.Utterson

        Dr.Hastie Lanyon

        Poole

        Mr.Guest

        Sir Danvers Carew

            " All humans we meet are ,

                    Made up of good and evil."

             The story is of a legal practitioner in London named Gabriel John Utterson.Which is his old friend Dr. Henry explores the strange events that happen between Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. The concept of two personalities is seen in one person.One is good on the outside and the other is sometimes shockingly bad on the inside.Which often describes dichotomous individuals with unpredictable dual personalities.

           A man(Hyde) tramples a little girl in the street.Who gets caught and pays compensation with a check signed by Dr. Jekyll. Utterson gets worried.When he learns that Jekyll will be absent.Hyde will be given his belongings.

        The climax of the story comes when sir Danvers Carew is brutally murdered.It is revealed that the culprits is hyde. And then Hyde mysteriously disappeas.The Utterson are called to Jekyll's house by pool.Where they enter his room.His mortal coil is found lying in Hyde's room.

       The story is told through two stories.The first story describes how Lanyon witnesses the terrible transformation from Hyde to Jekyll.And how Jekyll's soul is revealed by what happens next.In the second story,Jekyll writes a note to Utterson and Henry Jekyll dies.

               Main message of story  :

                Learning has been learned by reading this book. That every human being has good and bad qualities.But how you behave and what decisions you take decides our character.It is People who judge whatever a person is, good or bad by his or her behaviour.