Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless.
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Between these two, I now felt I had to choose.Now read the excerpt from Darcy’s essay on Dr. Jekyll.In the story, Dr. Jekyll repeatedly talks about having only two choices. Yet I know from my own experience that there are usually many options to choose from when dealing with human behavior—not just good or evil. This leads me to conclude that Dr. Jekyll had a strict, uncompromising, black-and-white view of the world that didn’t leave room for half measures and shades of gray.
Read the three excerpts from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.***Mr. Utterson again walked some way in silence and obviously under a weight of consideration. "You are sure he used a key?” he inquired at last.***That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish.
Which passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the most characteristic of gothic literature?
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
Which line from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde best characterizes Dr. Jekyll as ill?
Read the excerpt from Alex’s essay on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.The theme "Secrets isolate people from those around them” is repeated throughout the story. Dr. Jekyll isolates himself for mysterious reasons. Then, Dr. Lanyon isolates himself because of something that happened between him and Dr. Jekyll that he won’t talk about.
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms.
Suki is writing an essay comparing another gothic text to this excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Poole. "By the bye,” said he, "there was a letter handed in to-day: what was the messenger like?” But Poole was positive nothing had come except by post; "and only circulars by that,” he added.
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