Literary Essay

In the class of L/L Writing we were asked to write a literary essay in a group of two, explaining the themes, simbolysm, etc, of the book: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. here is my literary essay:

                       The Strage Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson is about a doctor called Henry Jekyll that is interested in double personality, so he creates a potion with the objetive to separate them, and Mr. Hyde emerge, this one is hs dark side, who makes hm commit suicide . The essay will explain some themes, the duality of human nature, the importanca of reputation, and violence.

In conection to the duality of human nature Jekyll claims, "man is not truly one but truly two." this represents Jekyll thoughts, people had a bad and a good side, a devil and an angel. In this case, his good part is the dominant part. However, he has bad desires but he dos not fullfill them because he is a prestigious man of Victorian times. With the potion he separates his two sides in different people, emerge Hyde, troglyodite,  hairy, he takes Jekyll until he died.

A situation of the story that explain the important of reputation is when the narrator describes utterson 

"Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged contenance that was never lighted by a smile, cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse, backward in sentiment, lean, long, dusty, dresry and yet somehow lovable". This represents that in Victorian era reputation was very important, people like Utterson have good reputation and avoid gossipin when he is suspicious of Jekyll of being blackmailed and then of sheltering Hyde from the police, and he does not told anyone to preserv Jekyll`s reputation 

An example of violence is " well sir the two run into one another naturally enough at the corner, and then came the horrible part of the thing, from the man trampled calmly over the childs body and left her screaming on the ground" Most of the violence scenes Hyde is the guilty and the victims are innocent people, for example when hyde hurts the girl, or when he kills Mr. Carew. Hyde’s finals victims are both, himself and Jekyll in the moment in wich he commit suicide, so neither victims are innocent crearly Hyde is guilty of many crimes and Jekyll is guilty because he creates Hyde and let him free.

For a conclusion I can say that in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author explains how a prestigious doctor can become in a horrible person. This book makes me realise the power of ambition, for example, this doctor is always interested in duality of human nature and his ambition is to separate the human soul, and because of that ambition he becomes in a horrible person