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 ... who looks faintly pre-human. There is something that makes him look and seem very ugly and unpleasant, but no one seems to know what that is. The first time Stevenson describes Hyde is through Mr. Enfield who says that the man "appeared so overwhelmingly ugly that the crowd immediately despised him." He admits that he "never saw a man I so disliked ... reflection in a...

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