Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has been called a "perpetual masterpiece of psychological terror that sprang from the deepest crevices of Stevenson's own subconscious -- a nightmare from which his wife awakened him" (Lombardi). The phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" is synonymous with man's internal war between good and evil (Auclair). Stevenson's story of the kindly scientist who drinks a potion that transforms him into a stunted, ... the id and the superego. The ego allows the personality to cope with the inner and outer demands of its existence. The balance of these three par...

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After reading the novel "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, and the film "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- directed by Victor Fleming and produced in 1941, I realized the similarities. Not only were there similarities but there were also ... ...

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