Both Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein tell cautionary tales of scientists, who both abuse their creative powers, in order to exist in a different world. There, their mistakes will not be judged and they will not be blamed for their actions. Frankenstein's creation is a "monster", distinct from his creator while Dr. Jekyll metamorphoses into Mr. Hyde. The "double" of each protagonist progressively grows more violent ... guilt for the wrong acts committed by his darker side. He strongly believes " that man is not truly one, but truly two" and "it...

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... , "Here, then, as I lay down the pen, and proceed to seal up my confession I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to and end"(54). The reader learns that Dr. Jekyll cannot be happy until he and Mr. Hyde are dead. In his own life Stevenson was almost split between his own versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson was raised by a fairly well to do family and was sent to school to become an ... engineer like his father. At school, however, Stevenson began to rebel from his seemingly picture perfect "Dr. Jekyll" lifestyle and rebel toward a more artsy "Mr. Hyde ... ...

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