... is one of the literary myths' produced by the desire of otherness' during that period. Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is perhaps one of the most famous examples of 19th century literature of the double' in which an individual is split into two or more contrasting personalities or haunted by a ... , the term Split personality is defined in the same dictionary as "1 a tendency to have extreme and unexpected changes of emotion or behaviour- and 2 "Informal, SCHIZOPHRENIA-. Thus, doubtless, either double personality or split will do for my purpose. Dr. Je...

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Comparitive Themes Of Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly, And Robert Louise Stevenson's "The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" It is common for a writer to take artistic license and apply it to the work of another author. In this situation, the writer will base various elements on the original work, but will then innovate and create a work that is a combination of the ideas of both authors. For some ... not. Valerie Martin is an example of one who has been successful in this quest. In her novel, Mary Reilly, Martin takes the story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Lou...

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... written in a period known as the "Gothic genre-, making Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a "Gothic novel-. As soon as we hear this term, you immediately think of things such of shadows, darkness, mystery and murkiness. Stevenson described this novel as a "Shilling Shocker-. Like most gothic novels, Stevenson wanted to shock and spook the reader. Jekyll and Hyde fits into "urban gothic horror- as Stevenson, throughout the ... qualities of being a "Gentleman- - charming, respectful and polite. He was staid, stable and stodgy. Stevenson believed that his novel explored the hypocrisy of his time as wel...

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... places of ill repute, frequents prostitutes, and murders, in complete defiance of society's values. Bates and Jekyll show, through their transformations, the different dimensions of personality as proposed by Freud. When his id is expressed, the character Bates from Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" is the equivalent of Hyde from Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson's Hyde is amoral, brutal, and seeks to gratify his alter ego ... 's repressed sexual desires. Likewise, Bates' "Hyde", or his "mother" half, has no regard for morals, is murderous, and fulfills Bate...

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