Literary essay: "the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde"

In the class of L/L writing we learnt how to write a literary essay and after doing some activities we wrote one based on the theory we had about "The strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Literary essay: "the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde"

The story "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, talks about the life of Henry Jekyll, a scientist, who believes that human has a double personality and to prove his point of view he creates a potion to separate them. As a result he turns into his evil side, Mr. Hyde, who takes him to his death. This essay will explain what Jekyll's house and laboratory and Hyde's physical appearance symbolises.

In the book, Jekyll's house and laboratory are related with Jekyll and Hyde. Jekyll's house, which is well-appointed and it says it has "a great air of wealth and comfort", represents Jekyll because Jekyll is neat and his house is perfectly tidy. His laboratory, described as "a certain sinister block of building", represents Jekyll bad side, Hyde, because Hyde as the laboratory he is ugly, disrupted, and unclean, and there is a connection between both buildings that symbolises the connection Jekyll and Hyde have as they are the same person.

Hyde's physical appearance, ugly, deformed, small, shrunken and hairy represents something. "I never saw a man I so disliked [...] He gives a strong feeling of deformity" said utterson, his ugliness and deformity symbolises his lack of moral and ethics, his small stature represents that he, as Jekyll's bad side, has been repressed from growing for many years, and his hairiness symbolises his animal instinct and the fact that he is immoral, he commits crimes because he enjoys it.

As a conclusion,jekyll's house symbolizes Jekyll and his laboratory simbolized hyde, the connection between the house and the laboratory symbolizes the connection Jekyll and Hyde have, and Hyde's physical appearance symbolizes different things about his personality, we think this book tought us we do not have to try to be what we are not and that things are not always what we think they are, things are not always going to happen as we think, things can go wrong or change.