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Strange Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Fiche de lecture - Anglais - 3 pages - Format
Jekyll’s Dual Nature in Stevenson’s Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case,” the narrator confesses that Dr. Jekyll has remained a composite of good and bad elements while Mr. Hyde is only pure evil. Stevenson wants the reader to observe not only the duality of human nature but also men’s inalienable duty to carry the burden of evil. Jekyll’s failure to separate his two natures recalls that men can not get rid of their evils. Jekyll’s love-hate relationship with Hyde which gives the novel its power is allowed by this remaining of evil in Jekyll’s soul. This essay will demonstrate that Stevenson suggests and denounces his protagonist’s persisting evilness through Jekyll’s lack of guilt for Hyde’s crimes in his “Full Statement of the Case”.
Plan du document :
1. Jekyll relates the pleasures he enjoyed from the new freedom and immunity offered by his two appearances
2. Jekyll describes his feelings when he first realized that he was loosing control over Mr. Hyde
3. The narrator now confesses that Dr. Jekyll truly connived at Hyde’s crimes and did not want to get rid of him because he shared his evil pleasures
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