... 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 throughout his story. Even though the reasons behind their creations, the physical appearances of the two monsters ... fact that he can be risking his life, Dr. Jekyll still drinks the potion he has come up with, to transform into the shrunken, deformed Mr. Hyde. Victor Frankenstein on the other hand, has been fascinated by the mysteries of the natural worl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... was fervently against it. A literary work often compared with Frankenstein is Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson's novel also suggests his discern with humans" tries at altering mortality by describing the deterioration of Dr. Jekyll who scientifically creates an evil alter- ... ego Mr. Hyde. The last line of the novel Henry Jekyll has written, "Here, then, as I lay down the pen, and proceed to seal ... 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 ...

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