The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde door Robert Louis Stevenson

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Boek
Auteur
Robert Louis Stevenson
Genre
Thriller & Detective
Taal
Engels
Vak
Eerste uitgave
1886
Pagina's
96
Geschikt voor
bovenbouw havo/vwo
Punten
2 uit 5
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels
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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde door Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author:

Robert Louis Stendson

Title:

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Title-explanation:

Dr. Jekyll is the main character, but he leads a double life: his normal and good side is Dr. Jekyll
and his other side is evil and is named Mr. Hyde. So they are both the main character. Two are actually one.
And that's a strange thing because nobody knows it and the whole relationship between them is a big mystery.

Publisher:

Wolters-Noordhoff BV => the Blackbirds of 1995, number 4

Date of publication:

1995

Date of first publication:

1885

Summary:

The story is about Dr. Jekyll who has got something to do with Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson discovers that Mr. Hyde is an evil man who has got a lot of contact with Dr. Jekyll. Mr. Utterson thinks that Mr. Hyde is blackmailing Dr. Jekyll because
he will inherit all Jekyll's money and property. Mr. Utterson tries to solve this mystery. After he has spoken with a friend of Jekyll and has received an address in Soho from Mr. Hyde, he speaks to Poole, Jekyll's butler. He tells him that Mr. Hide
has a key to the house and that his order has to be obeyed. Dr.Jekyll has been very strange since Hyde came to his house, and is very friendly when Hyde disappears. When Dr. Jekyll starts to act strangely again, his butler went to Utterson's house and begged him to come with him to Jekyll's house. He had to buy some medicine for Jekyll, but he couldn't find the right one. He wants Utterson to come and break down the door because Jekyll had been there for a long time and he was afraid he was murdered too. They find Hyde dead on the floor and a letter for Mr. Utterson, which explains the doctor's strange behaviour. Jekyll had discovered some poison wich changed him into an evil person: Mr. Hyde. But he got addicted and he became Mr. Hyde even when he had not taken the poison. That's why he killed himself.

Characters:
Dr. Jekyll:

He's a respected physician and has a lot of friends, like Mr. Utterson and Dr. Lanyon. He is a very friendly man
who looks neat and normal and who gives a great deal about his reputation. But he leads a double life, because he wants
to evil thinks like stealing and visiting rough bars. He has invented a poison that turns him into Mr. Hyde.
He becomes addicted to Mr. Hyde, because he has the freedom to do so, but he hates him at the same time,
because he's very evil. Dr. Jekyll is the personification of the good.

Mr. Hyde:

He is the other side of Dr. Jekyll. He is monstrous and people are afraid of him. He kills and is very mysterious
because he seems to be friends with the good Dr. Jekyll and is never been photographed. At the end of the story
he hates Dr. Jekyll, because he's all-good. He is the personification of evil.

Mr. Utterson:

He is a lawyer and a good friend of Dr. Jekyll. He tries to find out what the relation between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is.
He is worried about Dr. Jekyll, because he's acting very strange and he's afraid that Mr. Hyde is blackmailing him.
He's the leading person in the story.

Setting:

It takes place in London, but it's not very important. Dr. Jekyll owns a house there, with his laboratory, where he
invents the poison and finally will lose his live. It takes place in the same time the book has been written:
Somewhere in 1800.... That's because they speak of butlers/gaslights etc.

Point of view:

It's an omniscient narrator. You are told everything Mr. Utterson does and reads.
And at the end there are two personal letters, one of Dr. Lanyon and one of Dr. Jekyll.

Theme:
The duality of the human in a good and evil side. The fight between those two sides in one person. Because
everybody has a good and a bad side, and everyone can feel a conflict between them once in a while.
The book shows the only way to stop the evil is by killing it.
Genre:

Psychological novel

Writer's biography:

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. After he studied laws and had been an advocate, he decided
to be a writer. Although as a young man he rebelled against his strict father as well as against the hypocrisy of the Edinburgh bourgeois mentality, the Calvinist sense of sin, and the stem belief that evil lurks everywhere and cannot be conquered, influenced Stevenson's life. His lifelong fascination with the ways of evil - visible in most of his literary works finds it's explanation here. Because he was a sickly child, his father often told him exciting stories about long journeys and dangerous adventures. His nurse added her share of moralistic tales, about sinful creatures who refused to repent and thus headed for the agonies of eternal punishment in hell. It stands to reason that all this story telling made quite an impression on the sensitive and feverish child. Nor is it surprising that Stevenson's literary talent, after a childhood of exciting stories and tall tales, followed the paths of adventurous travels and romantic places on the one hand and the evil in man on the other. His first full-length book, 'Treasure Island', was published in 1883 and brought him fame.  He died in 1894.

REACTIES

D.

D.

bedankt voor je verslag van jekyll&hyde
keb em volledig gekopieerd en een 8 voor gekregen
groeten

22 jaar geleden

S.

S.

Is dit boek stage 3 ??

Gr

18 jaar geleden

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