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First published January 1, 1886
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Robert Louis Stevenson
5,420听books6,653听followersRobert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
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April 5, 2023
鈥滻t came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance rather of a leap of welcome.
This too, was myself.鈥�
Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. The stage adaptation opened in London in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. (Picture 1895).
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant man who in the course of trying to understand the human psyche has turned himself, with tragic results, into a guinea pig for his experiments. He has unleashed a power from within that is turning out to be too formidable to be properly contained. This book was released in 1886 and at first none of the bookshop wanted to carry the book because of the subject matter, but a positive review had people flocking to the stores to read this sinister tale of hubris overcoming reason.
The American first edition is the true first edition because it preceded the London edition by three days
The timing was perfect for releasing such a tale. The Victorian society was struggling with the morality that had been imposed upon them by the previous generation. They were embracing vice. Many men of means living in London now found themselves hearing the siren song of pleasures available on the East End. They could be as naughty as they wanted and safely leave their depravity on that side of town before they return to the respectable bosom of their family and careers. They were struggling with the dual natures of their existences. The thunder of the church and the faces of their sweet families made them feel guilty for their need to drink gin in decrepit pubs, smoke opiates in dens of inequity, consort with underage whores, and run the very real risk of being robbed by cutthroats. This walk on the wild side also allowed them the privilege of feeling completely superior to all those beings providing their means of entertainment.
Jekyll as it turns out is no different. He relishes the adventures of his other persona even as he feels the mounting horror of losing control of this other self he calls Mr. Edward Hyde.
Furthermore, his creation has no loyalty.
鈥滿y two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them. Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit.鈥�
Spencer Tracy plays Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941.
Unfortunately indifference becomes more personal, more brutal in nature, as Hyde becomes more and more a caged animal who does not want to have to embrace the pretenses of Jekyll鈥檚 respectable position.
鈥漈he hatred of Hyde for Jekyll was of a different order. His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll had fallen, and he resented the dislike which he was himself regarded.鈥�
The tincture that has so far allowed Jekyll to contain Hyde is needing to be doubled and tripled to give Jekyll some modicum of control over his deviant nature. Jekyll contacts every apothecary he knows trying to find more of the solution he needs only to discover that the original batch that he used to make his 鈥済rand discovery鈥� with must have been tainted with a foreign substance unknown to any of the suppliers. This foreign substance, unfortunately, is the ingredient that made the emergence and the restraint of Hyde possible.
Dire circumstances indeed.
Men who normally did not read novels were buying this book. I believe they were looking for some insight into their own nature maybe even some sympathy for their own urges. They made a book that quite possibly could have been thought of as an entertaining gothic novel into an international best seller. New generations of readers are still finding this book essential reading. Even those that have never read this book know the plot and certainly know the names of Jekyll and Hyde. It has inspired numerous movies, mini-series, comic books, and plays. It could be argued that it is one of the most influential novels on the creative arts.
It was but a dream.
Robert Louis Stevenson was stymied for a new idea. He was racking his brain hoping for inspiration.
鈥滺e had his names for the agents of his dreams, his whimsical alter ego and writing self. Stevenson referred to these agents, it pains me to admit, as 鈥榯he little people鈥� and the 鈥榯he Brownies.鈥� His hope was that they would supply him with marketable tales.鈥�
RLS
It came to him in a nightmare that had him screaming loudly enough to wake the whole household.
It was a gift from the depths of his mind, maybe an acknowledgement of his own dark thoughts, his own darkest desires.
He wrote the nightmare down on paper feverishly over ten days. When he read the final draft to his wife, Fanny, her reaction was not what he expected. She was cold to the tale, completely against publishing such a sensationalized piece of writing. They argued, thin skinned to any criticism as most writers are especially when it is a complete repudiation of a piece of writing he was particularly proud of; Stevenson, in a moment of rage, tossed the whole manuscript in the fireplace.
Be still my heart.
There is no arguing with success of this magnitude, but I can鈥檛 help but wonder what was in that first draft. If there is a criticism of this novel it would be for the restrained nature in which it is presented. Did Stevenson just let it all go? Did he give us more elaborate details of Hyde鈥檚 excursions? Was Jekyll鈥檚 glee in Hyde鈥檚 adventures more fully explored?
I understand Stevenson was a fiery Scot given to flights of temper that could only be doused with something as dramatic as throwing 30,000 words into the fire, but how about flinging the pages about the room, and storming away followed by the proper slamming of a door to punctuate displeasure. In my mind鈥檚 eye I can see his stepson, Lloyd Osborne, carefully gathering the pages, scaring himself reading them in the middle of the night, and keeping them for all posterity between the leaves of a writing journal.
In 1920 John Barrymore played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Stevenson was obsessed with the concept of good and evil. We all have a side to our personality that we prefer to keep hidden. We all wear masks. For now our inner thoughts are still our own, but don鈥檛 be surprised if the NSA has figured out how to tap in and tape those as well. Sometimes wearing the mask becomes arduous. Another entity fights to be allowed to roam free. We want to be impulsive, self-gratifying, slutty, sometimes brutal, but most importantly unfettered by our reputations. I wouldn鈥檛 necessarily call that evil, but there are people who do have true viciousness barely contained and we have to hope they continue to restrain it.
The Victorians identified with Jekyll/Hyde and maybe to know that others are also struggling with doing right without doing wrong certainly made them feel less like an aberration when they next felt the itch for the East End. I鈥檓 sure this book was the source of many fine conversations as they drank their gin and smelled the musky hair of the doxie on their laps.
The author with his wife and their household in Vailima, Samoa, c. 1892 Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson and family, Vailima, on the island of Upolu in Samoa. Left to right: Mary Carter, maid to Stevenson's mother, Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson's stepson, Margaret Balfour, Stevenson's mother, Isobel Strong, Stevenson's stepdaughter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Austin Strong, the Strong's son, Stevenson's wife Fanny Stevenson, and Joseph Dwight Strong, Isobel's husband.
The word that most of his friends and acquaintances used to describe Stevenson (RLS as I often think of him) was captivating. He was sorely missed when he made the decision to move to Samoa taking himself a long way from supportive friends and his fans. He was searching for a healthy environment that would restore his always ailing health. Unfortunately the new climate was found too late, he died at the age of 44 from a brain aneurysm leaving his last novel, the Weir of Hermiston, unfinished. Many believe that he was on the verge of writing his greatest novel.
Oddly enough, F. Scott Fitzgerald a very different writer from RLS, but also a favorite of mine died at 44 as well. Critics also believe that The Last Tycoon would have been his best novel if he鈥檇 had time to finish it. It does make me wonder about the wonderful stories that were left forever trapped in the now long silent pens of RLS and FSF, but they both left lasting monuments to literature. Even those that don鈥檛 appreciate their writing the way I do still have to admit that their impact was undeniable.
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This too, was myself.鈥�
Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. The stage adaptation opened in London in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. (Picture 1895).
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant man who in the course of trying to understand the human psyche has turned himself, with tragic results, into a guinea pig for his experiments. He has unleashed a power from within that is turning out to be too formidable to be properly contained. This book was released in 1886 and at first none of the bookshop wanted to carry the book because of the subject matter, but a positive review had people flocking to the stores to read this sinister tale of hubris overcoming reason.
The American first edition is the true first edition because it preceded the London edition by three days
The timing was perfect for releasing such a tale. The Victorian society was struggling with the morality that had been imposed upon them by the previous generation. They were embracing vice. Many men of means living in London now found themselves hearing the siren song of pleasures available on the East End. They could be as naughty as they wanted and safely leave their depravity on that side of town before they return to the respectable bosom of their family and careers. They were struggling with the dual natures of their existences. The thunder of the church and the faces of their sweet families made them feel guilty for their need to drink gin in decrepit pubs, smoke opiates in dens of inequity, consort with underage whores, and run the very real risk of being robbed by cutthroats. This walk on the wild side also allowed them the privilege of feeling completely superior to all those beings providing their means of entertainment.
Jekyll as it turns out is no different. He relishes the adventures of his other persona even as he feels the mounting horror of losing control of this other self he calls Mr. Edward Hyde.
Furthermore, his creation has no loyalty.
鈥滿y two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them. Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit.鈥�
Spencer Tracy plays Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941.
Unfortunately indifference becomes more personal, more brutal in nature, as Hyde becomes more and more a caged animal who does not want to have to embrace the pretenses of Jekyll鈥檚 respectable position.
鈥漈he hatred of Hyde for Jekyll was of a different order. His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll had fallen, and he resented the dislike which he was himself regarded.鈥�
The tincture that has so far allowed Jekyll to contain Hyde is needing to be doubled and tripled to give Jekyll some modicum of control over his deviant nature. Jekyll contacts every apothecary he knows trying to find more of the solution he needs only to discover that the original batch that he used to make his 鈥済rand discovery鈥� with must have been tainted with a foreign substance unknown to any of the suppliers. This foreign substance, unfortunately, is the ingredient that made the emergence and the restraint of Hyde possible.
Dire circumstances indeed.
Men who normally did not read novels were buying this book. I believe they were looking for some insight into their own nature maybe even some sympathy for their own urges. They made a book that quite possibly could have been thought of as an entertaining gothic novel into an international best seller. New generations of readers are still finding this book essential reading. Even those that have never read this book know the plot and certainly know the names of Jekyll and Hyde. It has inspired numerous movies, mini-series, comic books, and plays. It could be argued that it is one of the most influential novels on the creative arts.
It was but a dream.
Robert Louis Stevenson was stymied for a new idea. He was racking his brain hoping for inspiration.
鈥滺e had his names for the agents of his dreams, his whimsical alter ego and writing self. Stevenson referred to these agents, it pains me to admit, as 鈥榯he little people鈥� and the 鈥榯he Brownies.鈥� His hope was that they would supply him with marketable tales.鈥�
RLS
It came to him in a nightmare that had him screaming loudly enough to wake the whole household.
It was a gift from the depths of his mind, maybe an acknowledgement of his own dark thoughts, his own darkest desires.
He wrote the nightmare down on paper feverishly over ten days. When he read the final draft to his wife, Fanny, her reaction was not what he expected. She was cold to the tale, completely against publishing such a sensationalized piece of writing. They argued, thin skinned to any criticism as most writers are especially when it is a complete repudiation of a piece of writing he was particularly proud of; Stevenson, in a moment of rage, tossed the whole manuscript in the fireplace.
Be still my heart.
There is no arguing with success of this magnitude, but I can鈥檛 help but wonder what was in that first draft. If there is a criticism of this novel it would be for the restrained nature in which it is presented. Did Stevenson just let it all go? Did he give us more elaborate details of Hyde鈥檚 excursions? Was Jekyll鈥檚 glee in Hyde鈥檚 adventures more fully explored?
I understand Stevenson was a fiery Scot given to flights of temper that could only be doused with something as dramatic as throwing 30,000 words into the fire, but how about flinging the pages about the room, and storming away followed by the proper slamming of a door to punctuate displeasure. In my mind鈥檚 eye I can see his stepson, Lloyd Osborne, carefully gathering the pages, scaring himself reading them in the middle of the night, and keeping them for all posterity between the leaves of a writing journal.
In 1920 John Barrymore played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Stevenson was obsessed with the concept of good and evil. We all have a side to our personality that we prefer to keep hidden. We all wear masks. For now our inner thoughts are still our own, but don鈥檛 be surprised if the NSA has figured out how to tap in and tape those as well. Sometimes wearing the mask becomes arduous. Another entity fights to be allowed to roam free. We want to be impulsive, self-gratifying, slutty, sometimes brutal, but most importantly unfettered by our reputations. I wouldn鈥檛 necessarily call that evil, but there are people who do have true viciousness barely contained and we have to hope they continue to restrain it.
The Victorians identified with Jekyll/Hyde and maybe to know that others are also struggling with doing right without doing wrong certainly made them feel less like an aberration when they next felt the itch for the East End. I鈥檓 sure this book was the source of many fine conversations as they drank their gin and smelled the musky hair of the doxie on their laps.
The author with his wife and their household in Vailima, Samoa, c. 1892 Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson and family, Vailima, on the island of Upolu in Samoa. Left to right: Mary Carter, maid to Stevenson's mother, Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson's stepson, Margaret Balfour, Stevenson's mother, Isobel Strong, Stevenson's stepdaughter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Austin Strong, the Strong's son, Stevenson's wife Fanny Stevenson, and Joseph Dwight Strong, Isobel's husband.
The word that most of his friends and acquaintances used to describe Stevenson (RLS as I often think of him) was captivating. He was sorely missed when he made the decision to move to Samoa taking himself a long way from supportive friends and his fans. He was searching for a healthy environment that would restore his always ailing health. Unfortunately the new climate was found too late, he died at the age of 44 from a brain aneurysm leaving his last novel, the Weir of Hermiston, unfinished. Many believe that he was on the verge of writing his greatest novel.
Oddly enough, F. Scott Fitzgerald a very different writer from RLS, but also a favorite of mine died at 44 as well. Critics also believe that The Last Tycoon would have been his best novel if he鈥檇 had time to finish it. It does make me wonder about the wonderful stories that were left forever trapped in the now long silent pens of RLS and FSF, but they both left lasting monuments to literature. Even those that don鈥檛 appreciate their writing the way I do still have to admit that their impact was undeniable.
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February 20, 2019
55 pages later and I鈥檓 still convinced that Robert Louis Stevenson named his characters this way exclusively so he could fit in the line 鈥渋f he shall be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek!鈥� and honestly? that鈥檚 iconic.
There鈥檚 a reason this novella has stood the test of time - it is creepy and interesting as hell. I think there鈥檚 something very terrifying to me about the idea of losing humanity and sanity, at first due to your own choices but later because of forces you cannot control. Robert Louis Stevenson allegedly wrote this while on drugs, and you can definitely feel that experience in the book.
This is such a short book and I don鈥檛 know quite what else to say, but guys... I love Victorian horror. it's so fucking weird and wild and all about Transgressing Social Norms and Being Subversive and this is the kind of shit I am HERE for!! sometime I鈥檒l write my term paper about how Victorian horror was a way for queer people, women, and mentally ill people to express their frustrations at Victorian society in a way that appealed to mass audiences, because I find that dynamic fascinating.
dangerous ideas: book 2
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
There鈥檚 a reason this novella has stood the test of time - it is creepy and interesting as hell. I think there鈥檚 something very terrifying to me about the idea of losing humanity and sanity, at first due to your own choices but later because of forces you cannot control. Robert Louis Stevenson allegedly wrote this while on drugs, and you can definitely feel that experience in the book.
This is such a short book and I don鈥檛 know quite what else to say, but guys... I love Victorian horror. it's so fucking weird and wild and all about Transgressing Social Norms and Being Subversive and this is the kind of shit I am HERE for!! sometime I鈥檒l write my term paper about how Victorian horror was a way for queer people, women, and mentally ill people to express their frustrations at Victorian society in a way that appealed to mass audiences, because I find that dynamic fascinating.
dangerous ideas: book 2
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January 4, 2023
Pfft.
This Stevenson guy totally ripped off Stan Lee's Hulk character!
I mean, did this dude seriously think he could get away with what basically boils down to a copy & paste job of one of the most iconic literary characters in comics?!
I. Think. Not.
Stan, my friend, you have a real chance at winning a copyright infringement lawsuit.
*Edit: 2017
For those of you without a working sense of humor, please click this spoiler tag before commenting on my review.
Dr. Jekyll, you dirty, dirty little man...
Yes, yes, yes. I know that the whole story is supposed to be some deep philosophical look at the duality of human nature.
But that's not interesting.
Well, it's not interesting to me.
As supposedly groundbreaking as this discussion was at the time this sucker was written (so says the introduction), it didn't exactly blow my mind.
Hey, I'm actually pretty well-read for a peasant!
No, what kept me going was trying to figure out what the hell kind of kink this mild-mannered old fart was into! Seriously.
He developed a freaking magic serum just so he could run around and do...WHAT?! What was so off the charts freaky that he'd need to transform into a different person to get away with it?
I have my theories...
But, unfortunately, Stevenson never gives us a straight answer. He just decided to skip over the juicy bits and ratchet up the tension with the whole Good vs Evil thing.
Eh.
I guess he did a pretty decent job of pulling it off.
But what really struck a chord with me was the nice ABC After School Special feel to this one.
In the end, Dr. Jekyll apologizes, and everyone goes home happy!
Moral of the Story:
Don't drink anything that has green smoke coming off of it. Especially if it was brewed in a mad scientist's basement.
You will inevitably shrink and get hairy knuckles.
Buddy read with The Jeff, Delee, Dustin, Stepheny, Holly, and (party crasher) Tadiana.
This Stevenson guy totally ripped off Stan Lee's Hulk character!
I mean, did this dude seriously think he could get away with what basically boils down to a copy & paste job of one of the most iconic literary characters in comics?!
I. Think. Not.
Stan, my friend, you have a real chance at winning a copyright infringement lawsuit.
*Edit: 2017
For those of you without a working sense of humor, please click this spoiler tag before commenting on my review.
Dr. Jekyll, you dirty, dirty little man...
Yes, yes, yes. I know that the whole story is supposed to be some deep philosophical look at the duality of human nature.
But that's not interesting.
Well, it's not interesting to me.
As supposedly groundbreaking as this discussion was at the time this sucker was written (so says the introduction), it didn't exactly blow my mind.
Hey, I'm actually pretty well-read for a peasant!
No, what kept me going was trying to figure out what the hell kind of kink this mild-mannered old fart was into! Seriously.
He developed a freaking magic serum just so he could run around and do...WHAT?! What was so off the charts freaky that he'd need to transform into a different person to get away with it?
I have my theories...
But, unfortunately, Stevenson never gives us a straight answer. He just decided to skip over the juicy bits and ratchet up the tension with the whole Good vs Evil thing.
Eh.
I guess he did a pretty decent job of pulling it off.
But what really struck a chord with me was the nice ABC After School Special feel to this one.
In the end, Dr. Jekyll apologizes, and everyone goes home happy!
Moral of the Story:
Don't drink anything that has green smoke coming off of it. Especially if it was brewed in a mad scientist's basement.
You will inevitably shrink and get hairy knuckles.
Buddy read with The Jeff, Delee, Dustin, Stepheny, Holly, and (party crasher) Tadiana.
April 13, 2025
The origin of good鈥� The origin of evil鈥� Which one is stronger? Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a timeless parable.
A house begins with the door鈥�
What is the house with that mysterious door? One dark night suspicious Mr. Hyde was seen enter the door鈥�
So the lawyer who has in his possession the odd will of Dr. Jekyll starts a private investigation鈥� And Dr. Jekyll鈥檚 old friend informs him鈥�
The masks, respectable persons wear, may be very deceptive.
A house begins with the door鈥�
The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings鈥�
What is the house with that mysterious door? One dark night suspicious Mr. Hyde was seen enter the door鈥�
鈥淗e is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn鈥檛 specify the point.鈥�
So the lawyer who has in his possession the odd will of Dr. Jekyll starts a private investigation鈥� And Dr. Jekyll鈥檚 old friend informs him鈥�
鈥溾€t is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake鈥檚 sake as they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man.鈥�
The masks, respectable persons wear, may be very deceptive.
February 12, 2023
Oldschool schizophrenia
That created a whole subgenre
The options are sheer endless, because everything is possible with such a main character(s). Who is/are they, what is real or just fiction, how long is which personality taking control, who is the really good or bad character, what is their motivation and how is it triggered, are just the tip of the iceberg of ways to tell a story that way. In this classic, there are of course also
The conventions of the time the novel was written in
So what is good and evil, regarding faith, social norms, and traditions, changed since then. But the most freaking, disturbing, and for each one possible fate is, including the immense fear of,
Going bonkers without realizing it at first
Everyone is afraid of sickness and suffering and in this case, it could be a hell tour the force without end, except for a more or less natural death. Just google how it begins, how many manifestations it has, and how thin the line between mental sanity and madness is. How Stevenson uses a brilliant plot and writing style to show these inner struggles and construct credible characters out of one person is the
Reality for many people beginning to deal with dissociative personality disorder and schizophrenia
It麓s not as if one suddenly wakes up and has two or multiple personalities she/he is aware of. The variety of options for how, when, and how hard it kicks in is as manifold as the personalities a sick human brain creates. How severe the effects are can be seen in MRI scans of the brains of diagnosed patients that have to cope with much more than
Their good and evil twin
There is also so much personal history integrated into the construction of these personalities, another story element ingeniously implemented into the plot by Stevenson. Without, at the time simply not existing, much knowledge about the biological causes he described an amazingly accurate picture of the illness and didn麓t just build a literary monument of how fragile the human psyche is. But also sensitized society for forgotten, haunted individuals in the shadows, literally fighting their inner demons that came to life and could materialize at each moment.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
That created a whole subgenre
The options are sheer endless, because everything is possible with such a main character(s). Who is/are they, what is real or just fiction, how long is which personality taking control, who is the really good or bad character, what is their motivation and how is it triggered, are just the tip of the iceberg of ways to tell a story that way. In this classic, there are of course also
The conventions of the time the novel was written in
So what is good and evil, regarding faith, social norms, and traditions, changed since then. But the most freaking, disturbing, and for each one possible fate is, including the immense fear of,
Going bonkers without realizing it at first
Everyone is afraid of sickness and suffering and in this case, it could be a hell tour the force without end, except for a more or less natural death. Just google how it begins, how many manifestations it has, and how thin the line between mental sanity and madness is. How Stevenson uses a brilliant plot and writing style to show these inner struggles and construct credible characters out of one person is the
Reality for many people beginning to deal with dissociative personality disorder and schizophrenia
It麓s not as if one suddenly wakes up and has two or multiple personalities she/he is aware of. The variety of options for how, when, and how hard it kicks in is as manifold as the personalities a sick human brain creates. How severe the effects are can be seen in MRI scans of the brains of diagnosed patients that have to cope with much more than
Their good and evil twin
There is also so much personal history integrated into the construction of these personalities, another story element ingeniously implemented into the plot by Stevenson. Without, at the time simply not existing, much knowledge about the biological causes he described an amazingly accurate picture of the illness and didn麓t just build a literary monument of how fragile the human psyche is. But also sensitized society for forgotten, haunted individuals in the shadows, literally fighting their inner demons that came to life and could materialize at each moment.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
August 15, 2021
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January 20, 2025
So I will admit that I purchased the kindle version that had modernized wording. It just updated the older language, making it a bit easier for me to follow. But the writing style still felt like it was in same same vein (Pun intended) as Bram Stoker鈥檚 Dracula. Now this is a short read, but felt much longer, in a good way. I enjoyed the slow burn and hinting about Dr Jekyll鈥檚 alter ego, before divulging everything in the last chapter, from the doctor鈥檚 point of view. Putting yourself in Utterson鈥檚 shoes, and to a lesser degree Lanyon, really also made the terror he was dealing with seem so much more real and scary. Hyde was described perfectly throughout and his rampaging was done very tactfully. There was mention of violence, but nothing strongly detailed, which also fared well here. This book is a considered a horror classic for a damn good reason.
September 13, 2021
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.
It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.
It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.
The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
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November 11, 2022
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January 25, 2025
Do you know what a "Jekyll and Hyde" character is? Of course you do. It is one of the descriptions, originally in a piece of literature, which has now become accepted in our vernacular. And there are many renditions of the story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and countless references to it in all aspects of life. Quite an achievement for a slim Victorian volume written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, and published in 1886.
"Man is not truly one, but truly two."
So asserts Dr. Jekyll. But we are slightly handicapped nowadays by knowing the crux of the plot beforehand. Before this tale there seems to have been nothing similar, although there had been earlier tales in literature about doppelg盲ngers. Robert Louis Stevenson had always been interested in the duality of human nature, and shown admiration for morally ambiguous heroes - or anti-heroes. But the spark which produced this novel was ignited by a dream he had had. His wife Fanny reported,
"In the small hours of one morning ... I was awakened by cries of horror from Louis. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. He said angrily, 'Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.' I had awakened him at the first transformation scene."
The writing of the story itself is a gripping tale. Stevenson wrote the original draft with feverish excitement, taking less than three days. He then collapsed with a haemorrhage, and his wife edited the manuscript, as was her habit. The story is that it was she who suggested to her husband that he should have written it as an allegory, rather than a story.
On being left alone with his manuscript, Stevenson promptly burnt it to ashes, thus forcing himself to start again from scratch, and rewrite it in the form of an allegory. It is unclear whether this is true, or myth, since there can be no evidence of a burnt manuscript. However later biographers of Robert Louis Stevenson have claimed that he was probably on drugs such as cocaine when writing it. He was certainly ill and confined to bed at the time.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an immediate success, and remains Stevenson's most popular work. It is only recently however that his work has been thought to deserve critical attention. The author himself took his writing lightly, shrugging his popularity off with a dismissive,
"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child,"
and continuing to write his swashbuckling stories of romance and adventure; what he called "historical tushery."
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was thus an unusual tale for him to write. Perhaps its popularity at the time was partly due to its high moral tone. Not only was it adapted for the stage, but was also said to be widely quoted in religious sermons.
"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."
"All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."
One can see how ministers of the church would be tempted to use the story as a convenient illustration for descriptions of temptation, sin and depravity.
From a modern point of view the style is dated, and almost archaic. There is a lot of preamble and dissembling. Of course this must have added to the mystery. Yet since there is little mystery at all to a modern reader, it is difficult to judge.
The novel starts with a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who is intrigued to be told stories of his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and also about some evil crimes committed by a man called Edward Hyde. He himself witnesses Hyde going into Jekyll's house, describing Hyde as a "troglodyte", or ugly animalistic creature. As the story moves on, we learn that not only is Hyde primitive, but also immoral, taking a delight in his crimes. He is not an animal, amoral and innocent, but a person Utterson sees as evil and depraved, full of rage and revelling in his vices. The puzzle remains what could possibly be the link between the two very different men.
Yet is the morality of civilised people merely a veneer after all? The story is set very firmly in its time, when the ideas of what was decent and upright behaviour was set, not fluid. Yet even so, appearances and facades were often just an illusory surface, hiding a more sordid truth. A respectable man would sometimes prefer to look the other way and remain ignorant,
"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. 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."
When Utterson suspects that To a Victorian gentleman, his reputation would have been paramount. The unwritten rule of the time, known to all respectable people, stated that one never betrayed a friend, whatever their secret. This may seem hypocrisy to modern eyes, or it may seem loyalty.
As the story moves on the relationship between the two is compounded, but it is not until the final chapters, which consist of two letters to be opened in the event of a death, that the horrific story unfolds. This is a popular device of the time, but it lacks immediacy, and the story seems to finish unexpectedly, at the end of one letter, without any sort of conclusion. The descriptions however are very powerful,
"As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter..."
"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
"This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life."
It is an interesting depiction by Stevenson, that Dr. Jekyll could rarely bring himself to use the personal pronoun when talking about Hyde's most despicable crimes. Indeed, the character makes the same observation himself, yet at first he had talked in the first person throughout.
To a modern reader then, this is a story about a split personality, or what is technically called "dissociative identity disorder". But Stevenson also invites us to view it as a moral tale, an allegory, questioning the abstract notions of good and evil. Do we all have a "dark side"? Do we truly have both a tendency to evil and an inclination towards virtue within our natures? If so, how do we decide which is uppermost? Can we consciously control them at all? And which, if either, might continue after death?
The author poses the question, leaving it to the reader to decide, although there are hints that he views us all as having a dual nature,
鈥淭he bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.鈥�
It is always interesting to read the original of a much-loved tale. This has flaws of construction, but is well worth a look even so.
EDIT: (a few months later)
I've been aware that this is probably worth a little more than my default rating, if only because of its phenomenal influence on popular culture, and writing about this theme, since. So I'm altering my rating to a 4 stars, as it falls somewhere between the two, I think.
"Man is not truly one, but truly two."
So asserts Dr. Jekyll. But we are slightly handicapped nowadays by knowing the crux of the plot beforehand. Before this tale there seems to have been nothing similar, although there had been earlier tales in literature about doppelg盲ngers. Robert Louis Stevenson had always been interested in the duality of human nature, and shown admiration for morally ambiguous heroes - or anti-heroes. But the spark which produced this novel was ignited by a dream he had had. His wife Fanny reported,
"In the small hours of one morning ... I was awakened by cries of horror from Louis. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. He said angrily, 'Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.' I had awakened him at the first transformation scene."
The writing of the story itself is a gripping tale. Stevenson wrote the original draft with feverish excitement, taking less than three days. He then collapsed with a haemorrhage, and his wife edited the manuscript, as was her habit. The story is that it was she who suggested to her husband that he should have written it as an allegory, rather than a story.
On being left alone with his manuscript, Stevenson promptly burnt it to ashes, thus forcing himself to start again from scratch, and rewrite it in the form of an allegory. It is unclear whether this is true, or myth, since there can be no evidence of a burnt manuscript. However later biographers of Robert Louis Stevenson have claimed that he was probably on drugs such as cocaine when writing it. He was certainly ill and confined to bed at the time.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an immediate success, and remains Stevenson's most popular work. It is only recently however that his work has been thought to deserve critical attention. The author himself took his writing lightly, shrugging his popularity off with a dismissive,
"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child,"
and continuing to write his swashbuckling stories of romance and adventure; what he called "historical tushery."
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was thus an unusual tale for him to write. Perhaps its popularity at the time was partly due to its high moral tone. Not only was it adapted for the stage, but was also said to be widely quoted in religious sermons.
"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."
"All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."
One can see how ministers of the church would be tempted to use the story as a convenient illustration for descriptions of temptation, sin and depravity.
From a modern point of view the style is dated, and almost archaic. There is a lot of preamble and dissembling. Of course this must have added to the mystery. Yet since there is little mystery at all to a modern reader, it is difficult to judge.
The novel starts with a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who is intrigued to be told stories of his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and also about some evil crimes committed by a man called Edward Hyde. He himself witnesses Hyde going into Jekyll's house, describing Hyde as a "troglodyte", or ugly animalistic creature. As the story moves on, we learn that not only is Hyde primitive, but also immoral, taking a delight in his crimes. He is not an animal, amoral and innocent, but a person Utterson sees as evil and depraved, full of rage and revelling in his vices. The puzzle remains what could possibly be the link between the two very different men.
Yet is the morality of civilised people merely a veneer after all? The story is set very firmly in its time, when the ideas of what was decent and upright behaviour was set, not fluid. Yet even so, appearances and facades were often just an illusory surface, hiding a more sordid truth. A respectable man would sometimes prefer to look the other way and remain ignorant,
"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. 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."
When Utterson suspects that To a Victorian gentleman, his reputation would have been paramount. The unwritten rule of the time, known to all respectable people, stated that one never betrayed a friend, whatever their secret. This may seem hypocrisy to modern eyes, or it may seem loyalty.
As the story moves on the relationship between the two is compounded, but it is not until the final chapters, which consist of two letters to be opened in the event of a death, that the horrific story unfolds. This is a popular device of the time, but it lacks immediacy, and the story seems to finish unexpectedly, at the end of one letter, without any sort of conclusion. The descriptions however are very powerful,
"As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter..."
"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
"This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life."
It is an interesting depiction by Stevenson, that Dr. Jekyll could rarely bring himself to use the personal pronoun when talking about Hyde's most despicable crimes. Indeed, the character makes the same observation himself, yet at first he had talked in the first person throughout.
To a modern reader then, this is a story about a split personality, or what is technically called "dissociative identity disorder". But Stevenson also invites us to view it as a moral tale, an allegory, questioning the abstract notions of good and evil. Do we all have a "dark side"? Do we truly have both a tendency to evil and an inclination towards virtue within our natures? If so, how do we decide which is uppermost? Can we consciously control them at all? And which, if either, might continue after death?
The author poses the question, leaving it to the reader to decide, although there are hints that he views us all as having a dual nature,
鈥淭he bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.鈥�
It is always interesting to read the original of a much-loved tale. This has flaws of construction, but is well worth a look even so.
EDIT: (a few months later)
I've been aware that this is probably worth a little more than my default rating, if only because of its phenomenal influence on popular culture, and writing about this theme, since. So I'm altering my rating to a 4 stars, as it falls somewhere between the two, I think.
August 4, 2011
KUDOS, KUDOS and more KUDOS to you, Mr. Stevenson!! First, for bringing me more happy than a Slip N Slide on a scorching summer day by providing Warner Bros with the inspiration for one of my favorite cartoons, Hyde and Go Tweet:
...I mean who didn't love giant, cat-eating Tweety Hyde.
Second, and more seriously, when I tardily returned to your classic gothic novella as an adult, you once again red-lined my joy meter with the strength and eloquence of your story craft. You story is the gift that keeps on giving.
In both structure and content, this narrative is a work of art. From a technical perspective, it can be admired for its superb mingling of different literary devices. More importantly (for me at least), the story itself is a powerful depiction of some very important ideas about humanity and what we sometimes hide behind the veneer of civilization.
Structurally, the novella crams, stuffs and presses a complete, fully-fleshed story in its scant 88 pages by using a brilliant combo of point of view changes, dialogue, flashback and epistolary components. In lesser hands, the amount of information and story contained in this tale would have required a lot more paper. In addition to being a model of conciseness, the change in style, in my opinion, added to the enjoyment of the story by allowing the reader to be more 鈥減resent鈥� during the narrative.
Content-wise, Stevenson really knocks the cover off the ball. Despite being written in 1886, this tale still stands as the quintessential fictional examination of the duality of man鈥檚 nature and the very human struggle between the civilized and primal aspects of our beings. The constrained, repressive society of the Victorian Period in which the story takes place provides the perfect back drop for the model of outward English propriety, Dr. Henry Jekyll, to battle (metaphorically and literally) the darker, baser but still very human desires personified in the person of Edward Hyde. What a perfect allegory between the face people wear in public and the one they take out only in private.
Stevenson鈥檚 prose is engaging and I found myself pulled into the narrative from the beginning. I particularly enjoyed when Stevenson wrote of his characters鈥� reactions to being in the presence of Mr. Hyde and the palpable, pervasive, but non-pinpointable, sense of evil and dread that radiated from him. For example:
Overall, this is one of those classics that lives up to its name and rightfully belongs among the highlights of gothic fiction. I am very, very pleased that I decided to revisit this story as I found that I loved as an adult what I could only 鈥渢ry to appreciate鈥� as a child.
4.0 stars. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!!
...I mean who didn't love giant, cat-eating Tweety Hyde.
Second, and more seriously, when I tardily returned to your classic gothic novella as an adult, you once again red-lined my joy meter with the strength and eloquence of your story craft. You story is the gift that keeps on giving.
In both structure and content, this narrative is a work of art. From a technical perspective, it can be admired for its superb mingling of different literary devices. More importantly (for me at least), the story itself is a powerful depiction of some very important ideas about humanity and what we sometimes hide behind the veneer of civilization.
Structurally, the novella crams, stuffs and presses a complete, fully-fleshed story in its scant 88 pages by using a brilliant combo of point of view changes, dialogue, flashback and epistolary components. In lesser hands, the amount of information and story contained in this tale would have required a lot more paper. In addition to being a model of conciseness, the change in style, in my opinion, added to the enjoyment of the story by allowing the reader to be more 鈥減resent鈥� during the narrative.
Content-wise, Stevenson really knocks the cover off the ball. Despite being written in 1886, this tale still stands as the quintessential fictional examination of the duality of man鈥檚 nature and the very human struggle between the civilized and primal aspects of our beings. The constrained, repressive society of the Victorian Period in which the story takes place provides the perfect back drop for the model of outward English propriety, Dr. Henry Jekyll, to battle (metaphorically and literally) the darker, baser but still very human desires personified in the person of Edward Hyde. What a perfect allegory between the face people wear in public and the one they take out only in private.
Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me, and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.
Stevenson鈥檚 prose is engaging and I found myself pulled into the narrative from the beginning. I particularly enjoyed when Stevenson wrote of his characters鈥� reactions to being in the presence of Mr. Hyde and the palpable, pervasive, but non-pinpointable, sense of evil and dread that radiated from him. For example:
鈥楾here is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable鈥︹€�I was also impressed with Henry Jekyll鈥檚 description of his growing realization that man not homogenous inside his own skin but a conglomerate of competing personalities and aspects.
鈥︹€橻Hyde鈥檚 features] were the expression, and bore the stamp, of lower elements in my soul.鈥�
鈥楾he last I think; for, O poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.鈥�
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two鈥� I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens
Overall, this is one of those classics that lives up to its name and rightfully belongs among the highlights of gothic fiction. I am very, very pleased that I decided to revisit this story as I found that I loved as an adult what I could only 鈥渢ry to appreciate鈥� as a child.
4.0 stars. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!!
February 13, 2016
Robert Louis Stevenson was a man who knew how to play his audience. Utterson, the primary point of view character for this novel, is a classic Victorian gentleman; he is honest, noble and trustworthy; he is the last reputable acquaintance of down going men like Henry Jekyll. So, by having a character who evokes the classic feelings of Victorian realism narrate the abnormal encounterings, it gives it credibility; it gives it believability; thus, the story is scarier because if a man such as Utterson is seeing this strange case, then it must be real.
Indeed, this gothic novella was considered very scary at the time. I think this was emphasised because Stevenson pushed the boundaries of the gothic genre. One of the tenants of the style rests upon the inclusion of a doppelg盲nger. Instead of using this classic idea Stevenson transgressed it with having his doppelg盲ngers relationship reside in the same character. Jekyll/Hyde is the same person, and at the same time one and another鈥檚 counterpart. I think this is a masterful technique because the relationship between the two is more psychologically complex and fear inducing, than, for example, the relationship between Frankenstein and his Monster. It breaks the boundaries of the normal role and establishes a doppelg盲nger relationship that is stronger than any others.
This all happened because one day a Victoria chemist decided to see if he could separate the two states of human nature. The result was a successful disaster. Utterson has to try and piece together the scraps of the strange situation. He is perplexed at the idea of the paranormal because logic dictates that this shouldn鈥檛 be happening, therefore, it isn鈥檛 real, but only it is so, again, it becomes more scary. The incident at the window is demonstrative of this. Utterson witnesses Jekyll鈥檚 transgressive shift into Hyde and a shift between the doppelgangers. The blood of the Victorian gentleman is frozen by what he beholds.
"I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."
I love the gothic genre and I love this novella. I think so much can be taken from it because the number of interpretations that have been made of it are huge. It is told in my favourite style of narration: epistolary. There are a number of narrators, including Jekyll himself. Consequently, the interpretive value is increased significantly. I鈥檝e spoken a lot about Utterson, but there is also the strong possibility of Jekyll being an unreliable narrator as he has deluded himself almost completely. One could also compare the work to Stevenson鈥檚 own life and his self-imposed exile as he wrote this gothic master piece. In addition to this, Hyde can be seen as the personification of having the so called exact physical characteristics of a criminal in the Victorian age, and the homosexual undertones are also very implicit in the text. There is just so much going on in here.
The literary value of this is, of course, incredibly high. But, it is also incredibly entertaining to read. I鈥檝e written essays about this novella for university; thus, I could praise this book all day and night. This is, certainly, the best novella I've read to date. I had to buy a Folio Society edition of it, I just had to.
Indeed, this gothic novella was considered very scary at the time. I think this was emphasised because Stevenson pushed the boundaries of the gothic genre. One of the tenants of the style rests upon the inclusion of a doppelg盲nger. Instead of using this classic idea Stevenson transgressed it with having his doppelg盲ngers relationship reside in the same character. Jekyll/Hyde is the same person, and at the same time one and another鈥檚 counterpart. I think this is a masterful technique because the relationship between the two is more psychologically complex and fear inducing, than, for example, the relationship between Frankenstein and his Monster. It breaks the boundaries of the normal role and establishes a doppelg盲nger relationship that is stronger than any others.
This all happened because one day a Victoria chemist decided to see if he could separate the two states of human nature. The result was a successful disaster. Utterson has to try and piece together the scraps of the strange situation. He is perplexed at the idea of the paranormal because logic dictates that this shouldn鈥檛 be happening, therefore, it isn鈥檛 real, but only it is so, again, it becomes more scary. The incident at the window is demonstrative of this. Utterson witnesses Jekyll鈥檚 transgressive shift into Hyde and a shift between the doppelgangers. The blood of the Victorian gentleman is frozen by what he beholds.
"I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."
I love the gothic genre and I love this novella. I think so much can be taken from it because the number of interpretations that have been made of it are huge. It is told in my favourite style of narration: epistolary. There are a number of narrators, including Jekyll himself. Consequently, the interpretive value is increased significantly. I鈥檝e spoken a lot about Utterson, but there is also the strong possibility of Jekyll being an unreliable narrator as he has deluded himself almost completely. One could also compare the work to Stevenson鈥檚 own life and his self-imposed exile as he wrote this gothic master piece. In addition to this, Hyde can be seen as the personification of having the so called exact physical characteristics of a criminal in the Victorian age, and the homosexual undertones are also very implicit in the text. There is just so much going on in here.
The literary value of this is, of course, incredibly high. But, it is also incredibly entertaining to read. I鈥檝e written essays about this novella for university; thus, I could praise this book all day and night. This is, certainly, the best novella I've read to date. I had to buy a Folio Society edition of it, I just had to.
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December 13, 2023jekyll isn't special. i contain a monstrous version of myself i may become at any time without warning too
January 24, 2022
Once upon I was curious and dump kid who was big fan of black and white thriller movies. ( when I caught Hitchcock disease: which is an illness about non stop watching and being obsessed with thrillers of Hitchcock directed, I was only six) And that dump kid鈥檚 face was nearly glued to the screen when the first time she watched Spencer Tracy鈥檚 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Ingrid Bergman was also adorable as always playing Ivy Peterson) A scientist creates a potion to bring out the darkness he restrained for years! But slowly darkness controls his entire body, freeing the violent self of the person! Let鈥檚 say goodbye to kind, dedicated scientist Dr. Jekyll and let鈥檚 party with Mr. Hyde!
After watching that movie, I was planning to read that book for years. Today is the day I chose to accomplish that plan. But I have to admit: mostly I prefer books to their adaptations. This time I鈥檓 thinking exactly the opposite! I鈥檓 soooooo BORED! I want to go to bed but it鈥檚 only 10 a.m. in the morning! Why the hell a lawyer tells this entire story! Who cares about his client鈥檚 will! The story can be perfectly told via diaries of Dr. Jekyll ( or his both identities which will be more informative to see the psychological and physical changes of him)
I know it鈥檚 written on 1886 but it鈥檚 not an excuse to find a sensitive plot line about mad scientist鈥檚 research true nature of human being in expanse of losing his own humanity by turning into a beast and executing it poorly! This is definitely waste of true potential!
I鈥檓 giving three stars because of its brilliant plot ! But skipping the book and watching movie adaptations is far better choice!
Here are my favorite quotes:
鈥淵ou must suffer me to go my own dark way.鈥�
鈥淲ith every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two鈥�
鈥淎ll human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.鈥�
鈥淛ekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.鈥�
鈥淚t is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.鈥�
After watching that movie, I was planning to read that book for years. Today is the day I chose to accomplish that plan. But I have to admit: mostly I prefer books to their adaptations. This time I鈥檓 thinking exactly the opposite! I鈥檓 soooooo BORED! I want to go to bed but it鈥檚 only 10 a.m. in the morning! Why the hell a lawyer tells this entire story! Who cares about his client鈥檚 will! The story can be perfectly told via diaries of Dr. Jekyll ( or his both identities which will be more informative to see the psychological and physical changes of him)
I know it鈥檚 written on 1886 but it鈥檚 not an excuse to find a sensitive plot line about mad scientist鈥檚 research true nature of human being in expanse of losing his own humanity by turning into a beast and executing it poorly! This is definitely waste of true potential!
I鈥檓 giving three stars because of its brilliant plot ! But skipping the book and watching movie adaptations is far better choice!
Here are my favorite quotes:
鈥淵ou must suffer me to go my own dark way.鈥�
鈥淲ith every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two鈥�
鈥淎ll human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.鈥�
鈥淛ekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.鈥�
鈥淚t is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.鈥�
November 15, 2012
After the overblown and the undercooked , it's pleasant to find that the language and pacing of the third great pillar of horror is so forceful and deliberate (especially since I was disappointed by Stevenson's other big work, ). But then, this is a short story, and it's somewhat easier to carry off the shock, horror, and mystery over fewer pages instead of drawing it out like Shelley and Stoker into a grander moralizing tale.
But Stevenson still manages to get in quite a bit of complexity, even in the short space. As I was reading it, I found myself wishing I didn't already know the story--that it hadn't been automatically transmitted to me by society--because I wondered how much better it would be to go in not knowing the answer to the grand, central mystery, but instead being able to watch it unfold before me. Much has been said about the 'dual nature of man', the good versus the evil sides, but what fascinated me about the book was that despite being drawn in such lines, it did not strike me as a tale of one side of man versus another. Indeed, it is the virtuous side who seeks out a way to become destructive, showing that his virtuosity is a mere sham.
Likewise, neither Jekyll nor Hyde seem to have any real motivation to be either 'good' or 'evil', it is more that they are victims of some disorder which compels them to be as they are--that causal Victorian psychology which, in the end, robs anyone involved of premeditation for what they do. Dracula kills to survive, Frankenstein does so because he is the product of the ultimate broken home and Hyde does it as a self-destructive compulsion despite the fact that he loves life above all else, yet is unable to protect himself well enough to retain it.
This is not the evil of Milton's Satan, or of Moriarty, who know precisely what they do and do it because of the way they see the world before them, but that of the phrenologist, who measures a man's head with calipers and declares him evil based upon the values so garnered, independent of any understanding, motivation, or reason.
And yet this is not an unbelievable evil--indeed, Stevenson uses it as an analysis of addiction and other self-destructive behaviors, where the pure chemical rush of the thing becomes its own cause, despite the fact that the addict will tell you he wishes nothing more than to be rid of it, to be normal again, never to have tasted the stuff in the first place. It is a place a man might fall into through ignorance and carelessness, never realizing how hard it could be, in the end, to escape.
And that's something we can all relate to, far more than the sociopathy of Moriarty, which requires that you have complete understanding but just a completely different set of emotional reactions to the world around you. It is much easier for most people to say that there is some part inside them that they do not like, that makes them uncomfortable, some thoughts and desires which rise unbidden from their brain, and which they must fight off. And it is the fact that they are strong enough to need to be fought off that unsettles us and gives us pause, for we do not like to think that such incomprehensible forces might always be there, working, just beneath the surface, and which might come out not due to some dark desire or motivation, but due to simple, thoughtless error.
But Stevenson still manages to get in quite a bit of complexity, even in the short space. As I was reading it, I found myself wishing I didn't already know the story--that it hadn't been automatically transmitted to me by society--because I wondered how much better it would be to go in not knowing the answer to the grand, central mystery, but instead being able to watch it unfold before me. Much has been said about the 'dual nature of man', the good versus the evil sides, but what fascinated me about the book was that despite being drawn in such lines, it did not strike me as a tale of one side of man versus another. Indeed, it is the virtuous side who seeks out a way to become destructive, showing that his virtuosity is a mere sham.
Likewise, neither Jekyll nor Hyde seem to have any real motivation to be either 'good' or 'evil', it is more that they are victims of some disorder which compels them to be as they are--that causal Victorian psychology which, in the end, robs anyone involved of premeditation for what they do. Dracula kills to survive, Frankenstein does so because he is the product of the ultimate broken home and Hyde does it as a self-destructive compulsion despite the fact that he loves life above all else, yet is unable to protect himself well enough to retain it.
This is not the evil of Milton's Satan, or of Moriarty, who know precisely what they do and do it because of the way they see the world before them, but that of the phrenologist, who measures a man's head with calipers and declares him evil based upon the values so garnered, independent of any understanding, motivation, or reason.
And yet this is not an unbelievable evil--indeed, Stevenson uses it as an analysis of addiction and other self-destructive behaviors, where the pure chemical rush of the thing becomes its own cause, despite the fact that the addict will tell you he wishes nothing more than to be rid of it, to be normal again, never to have tasted the stuff in the first place. It is a place a man might fall into through ignorance and carelessness, never realizing how hard it could be, in the end, to escape.
And that's something we can all relate to, far more than the sociopathy of Moriarty, which requires that you have complete understanding but just a completely different set of emotional reactions to the world around you. It is much easier for most people to say that there is some part inside them that they do not like, that makes them uncomfortable, some thoughts and desires which rise unbidden from their brain, and which they must fight off. And it is the fact that they are strong enough to need to be fought off that unsettles us and gives us pause, for we do not like to think that such incomprehensible forces might always be there, working, just beneath the surface, and which might come out not due to some dark desire or motivation, but due to simple, thoughtless error.
August 25, 2022
Wer hat wohl noch nicht von Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde geh枚rt? Nun habe ich es auch endlich geschafft, einmal zu diesem Buch zu greifen.
Ich mochte die Thematik. Spannend und schaurig.
Der Schreibstil ist nat眉rlich etwas altert眉mlich, immerhin ist die Geschichte auch schon 眉ber 130 Jahre alt. Ich habe das Buch nicht im Original gelesen; vielleicht wirkt sie dann noch anders.
F眉r mich ist es ein gutes Buch; nicht mehr, nicht weniger.
Ich mochte die Thematik. Spannend und schaurig.
Der Schreibstil ist nat眉rlich etwas altert眉mlich, immerhin ist die Geschichte auch schon 眉ber 130 Jahre alt. Ich habe das Buch nicht im Original gelesen; vielleicht wirkt sie dann noch anders.
F眉r mich ist es ein gutes Buch; nicht mehr, nicht weniger.
April 30, 2015
What I learned reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
By Jeff
1) Some things are better left unsaid. Really? Who knows how Hyde indulged himself? Hookers? Pirating? Running an orphan sweat shop? Booze? Opium? Ripping the 鈥淒o Not Remove under Penalty of Law鈥� labels from mattresses?
2) Never have a nosy lawyer as a best friend. Who the hell hangs out with lawyers?
3) My evil Hyde would not be a top hat wearing, monkey-like Juggernaut. Sorry, he would be more Dean Martin-esque, a la 鈥淭he Nutty Professor.
4) How in need Victorian England was for body waxing and/or Nair.
5) As long as my evil twin was a different size - stretchy spandex material for those embarrassing and untimely changes.
6) This has no business being a musical. An episode of Scooby Doo, sure. (I would have 鈥渨orked鈥� my way through the entire brothel, if it wasn鈥檛 for you meddling kids!) Stage musical, no!
7) Possible Hyde potion flavors: Salted Caramel, Lime Mint, White Chocolate Almond, Tangerine Mango
8) Evil housekeeper-good, evil hideout attached to regular pad-just stupid. Note to self: make Evil me smarter and even more cunning.
9) Some adaptations over the years: In Abbot and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Costello, playing Tubby, is transformed into a big mouse. Huh? In Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the movie poster warned: 鈥淭he sexual transformation of a man into a woman will actually take place before your very eyes!鈥� 鈥淎cting! Brilliant! Thank you!鈥�
10) At around one hundred pages, this book (novella?) was the perfect length. Any longer and Stevenson鈥檚 leaden prose style would have transformed me into grumpy, whiney, sleepy reader.
By Jeff
1) Some things are better left unsaid. Really? Who knows how Hyde indulged himself? Hookers? Pirating? Running an orphan sweat shop? Booze? Opium? Ripping the 鈥淒o Not Remove under Penalty of Law鈥� labels from mattresses?
2) Never have a nosy lawyer as a best friend. Who the hell hangs out with lawyers?
3) My evil Hyde would not be a top hat wearing, monkey-like Juggernaut. Sorry, he would be more Dean Martin-esque, a la 鈥淭he Nutty Professor.
4) How in need Victorian England was for body waxing and/or Nair.
5) As long as my evil twin was a different size - stretchy spandex material for those embarrassing and untimely changes.
6) This has no business being a musical. An episode of Scooby Doo, sure. (I would have 鈥渨orked鈥� my way through the entire brothel, if it wasn鈥檛 for you meddling kids!) Stage musical, no!
7) Possible Hyde potion flavors: Salted Caramel, Lime Mint, White Chocolate Almond, Tangerine Mango
8) Evil housekeeper-good, evil hideout attached to regular pad-just stupid. Note to self: make Evil me smarter and even more cunning.
9) Some adaptations over the years: In Abbot and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Costello, playing Tubby, is transformed into a big mouse. Huh? In Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the movie poster warned: 鈥淭he sexual transformation of a man into a woman will actually take place before your very eyes!鈥� 鈥淎cting! Brilliant! Thank you!鈥�
10) At around one hundred pages, this book (novella?) was the perfect length. Any longer and Stevenson鈥檚 leaden prose style would have transformed me into grumpy, whiney, sleepy reader.
January 4, 2025
It begins with an apparent relatively joint police investigation and ends with a fantastic, scientific, psychological, and philosophical apotheosis, with Doctor Jekyll's journal revealing the end of the story.
From London at the end of the 19th century, the contrast between the beautiful districts around Regent's Park and the murky Soho is striking. Jekyll lives in one, and Hyde in the other. The first has good manners; the second is brutal. Jekyll offers tea, and Hyde can kill for free.
To find the evil Hyde, Mr. Utterson, a lawyer friend of Jekyll, conducts a personal investigation. Naturally, this approach will confuse the assassin. But, with the discovery of Jekyll's journal, the story ends in a big way.
This hundred-page work by R.L. Stevenson (Treasure Island) shows the big gap with the sea or on the back of a donkey in the C茅vennes. The fantastic dimension comes from the fact that he developed one of his nightmares in writing and then read articles on hysteria by Charcot and Freud.
Besides, Hyde's name means hidden, but when this unconscious resurfaces, we can say it appears hideous to our conscience!
From London at the end of the 19th century, the contrast between the beautiful districts around Regent's Park and the murky Soho is striking. Jekyll lives in one, and Hyde in the other. The first has good manners; the second is brutal. Jekyll offers tea, and Hyde can kill for free.
To find the evil Hyde, Mr. Utterson, a lawyer friend of Jekyll, conducts a personal investigation. Naturally, this approach will confuse the assassin. But, with the discovery of Jekyll's journal, the story ends in a big way.
This hundred-page work by R.L. Stevenson (Treasure Island) shows the big gap with the sea or on the back of a donkey in the C茅vennes. The fantastic dimension comes from the fact that he developed one of his nightmares in writing and then read articles on hysteria by Charcot and Freud.
Besides, Hyde's name means hidden, but when this unconscious resurfaces, we can say it appears hideous to our conscience!
October 25, 2020
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丿讴鬲乇 芦亘乇賵爻 亘賻賳賽乇禄 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿蹖 賲毓賯賵賱 賵 丨鬲蹖 讴賲蹖 禺噩丕賱鬲蹖貙 亘丕 賯乇丕乇 诏乇賮鬲賳 丿乇 賲毓乇囟 鬲卮毓卮毓鈥屬囏й� 賴爻鬲賴鈥屫й� 亘賴 賲賵噩賵丿蹖 賴蹖賵賱丕诏賵賳 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 賳賯胤踿 賲賯丕亘賱 鬲賲丕賲 禺氐賵氐蹖丕鬲 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇賴. 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖蹖 睾蹖乇賯丕亘賱 讴賳鬲乇賱 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 禺卮賲诏蹖賳貙 讴賴 讴賲丕亘蹖卮 亘賴 賳賲丕丿 禺卮賲 噩賳賵賳鈥屫①呟屫� 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賴: 芦賴丕賱讴禄. 賴乇 賵賯鬲 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇 丿趩丕乇 睾賱蹖丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻蹖 卮丿蹖丿蹖 亘卮賴 (禺卮賲 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 丕賳丿賵賴 卮丿蹖丿) 賳丕禺賵丕爻鬲賴 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘賴 賴丕賱讴 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 亘丕 賳丕亘賵丿 讴乇丿賳 賴乇 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 爻乇 乇丕賴卮 亘丕卮賴 禺賵丿卮 乇賵 鬲禺賱蹖賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁囏� 賵 賴乇 賵賯鬲 鬲禺賱蹖賴 卮丿 丿賵亘丕乇賴 亘賴 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇 亘蹖 丌夭丕乇 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屫促�.
鄢. 蹖賵賳诏 賵 爻丕蹖賴
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 讴賴賳鈥屫з勞堎囏й� 蹖賵賳诏蹖 讴賴 賳丕禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 賲丕 乇賵 鬲卮讴蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 讴賴賳鈥屫з勞堐� 芦爻丕蹖賴禄 丕爻鬲. 爻丕蹖賴 賲丨賱 噩賲毓 卮丿賳 鬲賲丕賲 禺氐賵氐蹖丕鬲蹖賴 讴賴 賲丕 丿乇 爻胤丨 禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 賳賮乇鬲鈥屫①堌� 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗃屬� 賵 爻毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 鬲丕 丨丿 賲賲讴賳 丕夭卮賵賳 丕噩鬲賳丕亘 讴賳蹖賲. 鬲賲丕賲 丕蹖賳 丕噩鬲賳丕亘鈥屬囏� 賵 爻乇讴賵亘 讴乇丿賳鈥屬囏� 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖鈥屫促� 爻丕蹖賴 亘賴 賲賳亘毓 賳蹖乇賵蹖 亘爻蹖丕乇 賯丿乇鬲賲賳丿蹖 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘卮賴貙 讴賴 賴賲夭賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 禺賱賾丕賯 賵 賵蹖乇丕賳诏乇 亘丕卮賴. 蹖賵賳诏 賲毓鬲賯丿賴: 賴乇 賵賯鬲 賮乇丿 丿乇 丨丕賱 賲鬲夭賱夭賱 賯乇丕乇 亘诏蹖乇賴 (卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 爻亘亘 睾賱蹖丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻蹖 卮丿蹖丿) 爻丕蹖賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丨丕賱 爻乇讴賵亘 賲蹖鈥屫簇� 賵 丿乇 賳鬲蹖噩賴 賲孬賱 賮賳乇蹖 讴賴 賮卮丕乇 丿丕丿賴 亘卮賴貙 丕賳乇跇蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 丿乇 禺賵丿卮 噩賲毓 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 亘丕 鬲賲丕賲 賯丿乇鬲 亘丕賱丕 賲蹖丕丿 賵 鬲賲丕賲 乇賵丕賳 賮乇丿 乇賵 鬲丨鬲 鬲爻賱胤 禺賵丿卮 賲蹖鈥屭屫辟� 賵 賮乇丿 乇賵 亘賴 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖 賲賴丕乇賳丕倬匕蹖乇蹖 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
鄞. 丿讴鬲乇 噩讴蹖賱 賵 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕蹖丿
噩賳丕亘 乇丕亘乇鬲 賱賵蹖蹖爻 丕爻鬲蹖賵賳爻賳貙 蹖讴 卮亘 讴丕亘賵爻蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁�. 讴丕亘賵爻 讴爻蹖 讴賴 丿賵 賳賮乇 卮丿賴貙 蹖讴 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿 賲毓賯賵賱 賵 賲亘丕丿蹖 丌丿丕亘貙 賵 蹖讴 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖 睾蹖乇 賯丕亘賱 讴賳鬲乇賱 賵 賳賮乇鬲鈥屫з嗂屫�. 賵 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿 亘賴 乇睾賲 禺賵丕爻鬲 禺賵丿卮貙 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲毓鬲丕丿 亘賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 卮蹖胤丕賳蹖卮 賲蹖鈥屫促�.
賵賯鬲蹖 丕爻鬲蹖賵賳爻賳 丕夭 禺賵丕亘 亘蹖丿丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促囏� 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 讴丕亘賵爻卮 丿乇 賯丕賱亘 蹖讴 乇賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�. 賵賯鬲蹖 乇賲丕賳 乇賵 鬲賲賵賲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁囏� 丿賵亘丕乇賴 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀� 賵 丕夭 賳賵卮鬲踿 禺賵丿卮 丿賱夭丿賴 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 丿爻鬲 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屬囏� 乇賵 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀ж操� 鬲賵蹖 丌鬲蹖卮. 丕賲丕 賲丿鬲蹖 亘毓丿貙 倬卮蹖賲賵賳 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 丿賵亘丕乇賴 賴乇 趩蹖 丕夭 乇賲丕賳 丕氐賱蹖 蹖丕丿卮 賲賵賳丿賴 乇賵 馗乇賮 爻賴 乇賵夭 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟� 賵 丨丕氐賱卮 賲蹖鈥屫促� 乇賲丕賳 丨丕囟乇.
丕蹖賳 賲丕噩乇丕 禺蹖賱蹖 賯亘賱 丕夭 丕賵賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 蹖賵賳诏 賲胤丕賱毓丕鬲 賲乇亘賵胤 亘賴 賳丕禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 乇賵 卮乇賵毓 讴賳賳貙 賵 丕蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 賲賳亘毓 丕賱賴丕賲 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏� 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘毓丿 丕夭 禺賵丿卮 (賲孬賱 丿賵-趩賴乇賴 賵 賴丕賱讴) 卮丿貙 賵 丕賲乇賵夭賴 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 囟乇亘鈥屫з勝呚勠� 亘乇丕蹖 丿賵诏丕賳诏蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 賲蹖鈥屫促�.
賲丕 卮禺氐蹖鬲 芦丿賵-趩賴乇賴禄 乇賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 賮蹖賱賲 芦卮賵丕賱蹖踿 鬲丕乇蹖讴禄 讴乇蹖爻鬲賵賮乇 賳賵賱丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж驰屬�. 丕賲丕 賳賵賱丕賳 鬲賵蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏й� 亘鬲賲賳 (丕夭 噩賲賱賴 禺賵丿 亘鬲賲賳) 丿爻鬲 亘乇丿賴 賵 鬲丕 丨丿 夭蹖丕丿蹖 鬲睾蹖蹖乇卮賵賳 丿丕丿賴. 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 賴賲蹖賳 賲賳亘毓 賲胤賲卅賳蹖 亘乇丕蹖 卮賳丕禺鬲 丕蹖賳 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏� 賳蹖爻鬲. 丕夭 噩賲賱賴貙 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 禺氐賵氐蹖丕鬲 賲賴賲 丿賵-趩賴乇賴 讴賴 鬲賵蹖 賮蹖賱賲 卮賵丕賱蹖踿 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賳卮賵賳 丿丕丿賴 賳卮丿賴貙 丿賵 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 亘賵丿賳卮賴: 賳蹖賲踿 爻丕賱賲 趩賴乇賴鈥屫� 賴賲趩賳丕賳 賴丕乇賵蹖 丿賳鬲賽 丿丕丿爻鬲丕賳 賵 丿乇爻鬲讴丕乇賴貙 賵 賳蹖賲踿 爻賵禺鬲賴鈥屫� 賴丕乇賵蹖 丿賳鬲賽 噩賳丕蹖鬲讴丕乇 賵 卮蹖胤丕賳蹖. 賵 丕夭 丕賵賳 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘丕 賳夭丕毓 丿丕卅賲 丕蹖賳 丿賵 賴丕乇賵蹖 丿賳鬲 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 賴蹖趩 鬲氐賲蹖賲蹖 亘诏蹖乇賴貙 賳丕趩丕乇賴 亘乇丕蹖 鬲氐賲蹖賲鈥屭屫臂� 丕夭 蹖讴 爻讴賴 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴賳賴 讴賴 丿賵 乇賵蹖 蹖讴 卮讴賱 丿丕乇賴貙 丕賲丕 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丿賵 乇賵蹖 蹖讴 卮讴賱貙 賲禺丿賵卮 卮丿賴: 賲孬賱 禺賵丿 賴丕乇賵蹖.
鄄. 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇 賵 賴丕賱讴
丿讴鬲乇 芦亘乇賵爻 亘賻賳賽乇禄 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿蹖 賲毓賯賵賱 賵 丨鬲蹖 讴賲蹖 禺噩丕賱鬲蹖貙 亘丕 賯乇丕乇 诏乇賮鬲賳 丿乇 賲毓乇囟 鬲卮毓卮毓鈥屬囏й� 賴爻鬲賴鈥屫й� 亘賴 賲賵噩賵丿蹖 賴蹖賵賱丕诏賵賳 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖卮賴 讴賴 賳賯胤踿 賲賯丕亘賱 鬲賲丕賲 禺氐賵氐蹖丕鬲 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇賴. 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖蹖 睾蹖乇賯丕亘賱 讴賳鬲乇賱 賵 賴賲蹖卮賴 禺卮賲诏蹖賳貙 讴賴 讴賲丕亘蹖卮 亘賴 賳賲丕丿 禺卮賲 噩賳賵賳鈥屫①呟屫� 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賴: 芦賴丕賱讴禄. 賴乇 賵賯鬲 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇 丿趩丕乇 睾賱蹖丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻蹖 卮丿蹖丿蹖 亘卮賴 (禺卮賲 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 丕賳丿賵賴 卮丿蹖丿) 賳丕禺賵丕爻鬲賴 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘賴 賴丕賱讴 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 亘丕 賳丕亘賵丿 讴乇丿賳 賴乇 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 爻乇 乇丕賴卮 亘丕卮賴 禺賵丿卮 乇賵 鬲禺賱蹖賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁囏� 賵 賴乇 賵賯鬲 鬲禺賱蹖賴 卮丿 丿賵亘丕乇賴 亘賴 丿讴鬲乇 亘賳乇 亘蹖 丌夭丕乇 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屫促�.
鄢. 蹖賵賳诏 賵 爻丕蹖賴
蹖讴蹖 丕夭 讴賴賳鈥屫з勞堎囏й� 蹖賵賳诏蹖 讴賴 賳丕禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 賲丕 乇賵 鬲卮讴蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 讴賴賳鈥屫з勞堐� 芦爻丕蹖賴禄 丕爻鬲. 爻丕蹖賴 賲丨賱 噩賲毓 卮丿賳 鬲賲丕賲 禺氐賵氐蹖丕鬲蹖賴 讴賴 賲丕 丿乇 爻胤丨 禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 賳賮乇鬲鈥屫①堌� 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗃屬� 賵 爻毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 鬲丕 丨丿 賲賲讴賳 丕夭卮賵賳 丕噩鬲賳丕亘 讴賳蹖賲. 鬲賲丕賲 丕蹖賳 丕噩鬲賳丕亘鈥屬囏� 賵 爻乇讴賵亘 讴乇丿賳鈥屬囏� 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖鈥屫促� 爻丕蹖賴 亘賴 賲賳亘毓 賳蹖乇賵蹖 亘爻蹖丕乇 賯丿乇鬲賲賳丿蹖 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘卮賴貙 讴賴 賴賲夭賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 禺賱賾丕賯 賵 賵蹖乇丕賳诏乇 亘丕卮賴. 蹖賵賳诏 賲毓鬲賯丿賴: 賴乇 賵賯鬲 賮乇丿 丿乇 丨丕賱 賲鬲夭賱夭賱 賯乇丕乇 亘诏蹖乇賴 (卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 爻亘亘 睾賱蹖丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻蹖 卮丿蹖丿) 爻丕蹖賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 鬲丕 亘賴 丨丕賱 爻乇讴賵亘 賲蹖鈥屫簇� 賵 丿乇 賳鬲蹖噩賴 賲孬賱 賮賳乇蹖 讴賴 賮卮丕乇 丿丕丿賴 亘卮賴貙 丕賳乇跇蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 丿乇 禺賵丿卮 噩賲毓 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 亘丕 鬲賲丕賲 賯丿乇鬲 亘丕賱丕 賲蹖丕丿 賵 鬲賲丕賲 乇賵丕賳 賮乇丿 乇賵 鬲丨鬲 鬲爻賱胤 禺賵丿卮 賲蹖鈥屭屫辟� 賵 賮乇丿 乇賵 亘賴 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖 賲賴丕乇賳丕倬匕蹖乇蹖 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
鄞. 丿讴鬲乇 噩讴蹖賱 賵 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕蹖丿
噩賳丕亘 乇丕亘乇鬲 賱賵蹖蹖爻 丕爻鬲蹖賵賳爻賳貙 蹖讴 卮亘 讴丕亘賵爻蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁�. 讴丕亘賵爻 讴爻蹖 讴賴 丿賵 賳賮乇 卮丿賴貙 蹖讴 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿 賲毓賯賵賱 賵 賲亘丕丿蹖 丌丿丕亘貙 賵 蹖讴 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖 睾蹖乇 賯丕亘賱 讴賳鬲乇賱 賵 賳賮乇鬲鈥屫з嗂屫�. 賵 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿 亘賴 乇睾賲 禺賵丕爻鬲 禺賵丿卮貙 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲毓鬲丕丿 亘賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 卮蹖胤丕賳蹖卮 賲蹖鈥屫促�.
賵賯鬲蹖 丕爻鬲蹖賵賳爻賳 丕夭 禺賵丕亘 亘蹖丿丕乇 賲蹖鈥屫促囏� 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 讴丕亘賵爻卮 丿乇 賯丕賱亘 蹖讴 乇賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�. 賵賯鬲蹖 乇賲丕賳 乇賵 鬲賲賵賲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁囏� 丿賵亘丕乇賴 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀� 賵 丕夭 賳賵卮鬲踿 禺賵丿卮 丿賱夭丿賴 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 丿爻鬲 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屬囏� 乇賵 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀ж操� 鬲賵蹖 丌鬲蹖卮. 丕賲丕 賲丿鬲蹖 亘毓丿貙 倬卮蹖賲賵賳 賲蹖鈥屫促� 賵 丿賵亘丕乇賴 賴乇 趩蹖 丕夭 乇賲丕賳 丕氐賱蹖 蹖丕丿卮 賲賵賳丿賴 乇賵 馗乇賮 爻賴 乇賵夭 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟� 賵 丨丕氐賱卮 賲蹖鈥屫促� 乇賲丕賳 丨丕囟乇.
丕蹖賳 賲丕噩乇丕 禺蹖賱蹖 賯亘賱 丕夭 丕賵賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮乇賵蹖丿 賵 蹖賵賳诏 賲胤丕賱毓丕鬲 賲乇亘賵胤 亘賴 賳丕禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 乇賵 卮乇賵毓 讴賳賳貙 賵 丕蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 賲賳亘毓 丕賱賴丕賲 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏� 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘毓丿 丕夭 禺賵丿卮 (賲孬賱 丿賵-趩賴乇賴 賵 賴丕賱讴) 卮丿貙 賵 丕賲乇賵夭賴 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 囟乇亘鈥屫з勝呚勠� 亘乇丕蹖 丿賵诏丕賳诏蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 賲蹖鈥屫促�.
September 20, 2020
The appearances/superficiality motif appears as early on as the first sentence in this tense, tight, but ultimately convoluted smear of a novella. Count on countenance for good & sturdy bones in a story of detection...
& yet...
Plus there are really nice framing devices on display here, a check-mark always in my book, like the letters within letters narrative, a nifty exercise, which is mighty cool. (Here, my favorite sentence from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic: "Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference." [85] Super dooper neat!)
Yet...
And then there is the fact that the main protagonists become manifested once they are uttered into existence by the status quo, the pre turn of the century Londonfolk. Rumor creates their reputations before the two, er one, ever make the center stage.
However...
I must mention that I feel as though the actual occurrence, the solved crime, what's underneath all the whispy artifices of this rudimentary detective-noir novel, is a homosexual relationship gone to extremes, to a level that's too... literary? Maybe that's a stretch. Also, I LOVE that JEKYLL sounds like jackal, as in Devil. Cute.
But
This is not worthy of the canon (!!!!). Bottom Line. Cos the whole Dual-Nature and Commingling-of-Good-and-Evil thing is overdone, stamped into the reader like some mantra that could be interpreted in many different ways and becomes, quite frankly, overly exhausted. This ain't as kitschy, or pre-kitschy-- nowhere near-- as I'd foolishly predicted. If you want something macabre AND brilliant, go to the French serial-classic "The Phantom of the Opera"!
& yet...
Plus there are really nice framing devices on display here, a check-mark always in my book, like the letters within letters narrative, a nifty exercise, which is mighty cool. (Here, my favorite sentence from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic: "Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference." [85] Super dooper neat!)
Yet...
And then there is the fact that the main protagonists become manifested once they are uttered into existence by the status quo, the pre turn of the century Londonfolk. Rumor creates their reputations before the two, er one, ever make the center stage.
However...
I must mention that I feel as though the actual occurrence, the solved crime, what's underneath all the whispy artifices of this rudimentary detective-noir novel, is a homosexual relationship gone to extremes, to a level that's too... literary? Maybe that's a stretch. Also, I LOVE that JEKYLL sounds like jackal, as in Devil. Cute.
But
This is not worthy of the canon (!!!!). Bottom Line. Cos the whole Dual-Nature and Commingling-of-Good-and-Evil thing is overdone, stamped into the reader like some mantra that could be interpreted in many different ways and becomes, quite frankly, overly exhausted. This ain't as kitschy, or pre-kitschy-- nowhere near-- as I'd foolishly predicted. If you want something macabre AND brilliant, go to the French serial-classic "The Phantom of the Opera"!
October 2, 2023
El Se帽or pregunt贸 a Ca铆n: 鈥溌緿贸nde est谩 tu hermano?鈥� 脡l respondi贸: 鈥淣o lo s茅, 驴acaso soy el guardi谩n de mi hermano?鈥�
Este genial libro de Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson es lo que yo llamo un cl谩sico con todas las letras. Uno de esos cl谩sicos que demuestra que no necesita tener mil p谩ginas para transformarse en algo inolvidable. Menos de cien p谩ginas le bastaron a esta peque帽a (pero gran) novela de Stevenson para tomar lo mejor del Romanticismo y la tem谩tica del doble y crear una historia con el suspense necesario para llevarnos a un final acorde a la trama que nos ofrece.
Gran parte de los ideales rom谩nticos est谩 ah铆, haciendo hincapi茅 en el titanismo y sobre todo en la lucha del bien y el mal que todos poseemos como seres humanos.
El caso del Dr. Jekyll es el claro ejemplo de querer hacer el bien para terminar sucumbiendo al peor de los pecados y terminar en la m谩s baja vileza y crueldad puesto que 茅l mismo acepta esta condici贸n a la que se expone tomando su dosis cuando afirma: "Ser tentado, para m铆, significaba caer".
Jekyll basa su condena a partir de lo que el denomina su defecto, ese defecto que se potencia asumiendo la monstruosa apariencia del Sr. Hyde y este pecado lo destruye y consume: "M谩s que defectos graves, fueron, por lo tanto, mis excesivas aspiraciones a hacer de m铆 lo que he sido, y a separar de m铆, m谩s radicalmente que en otros, esas dos zonas del bien y del mal que dividen y componen la doble naturaleza del hombre."
No es el primer personaje en ser tironeado por estas dos antag贸nicas fuerzas. Algunos lo hacen adrede, otros en forma involuntaria, pero en t茅rminos generales, el bien versus el mal est谩 en casi todas las novelas o cuentos que uno lea.
Pienso en algunos casos y me vienen a la mente 鈥淓l retrato de Dorian Gray鈥� de Oscar Wilde, 鈥淐rimen y Castigo鈥� de Fi贸dor Dostoievki, 鈥淟os elixires del Diablo鈥�, de E.T.A. Hoffmann y el 鈥淓l hombre invisible鈥� de H.G. Wells.
Creo que Dorian Gray y Griffin (El hombre invisible) son los personajes que m谩s puntos tienen en com煤n con Henry Jekyll, ya que que en esos casos la lucha no da tregua. El paralelismo entre Griffin y Jekyll es sorprendente, puesto que lo que en un principio y a partir de lo cient铆fico parece ser un avance, una mejora o un descubrimiento, r谩pidamente se convertir谩 en una maldici贸n muy dif铆cil de controlar y los resultados ser谩n nefastos.
En el libro 鈥淟os hermanos Karamazov鈥�, Dmitri afirma que 鈥淓l coraz贸n del hombre es el campo de batalla donde luchan Dios y el Diablo.鈥�
Pienso en el pobre Dr. Jekyll y me doy cuenta de que ya perdi贸 esa batalla de antemano.
Este genial libro de Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson es lo que yo llamo un cl谩sico con todas las letras. Uno de esos cl谩sicos que demuestra que no necesita tener mil p谩ginas para transformarse en algo inolvidable. Menos de cien p谩ginas le bastaron a esta peque帽a (pero gran) novela de Stevenson para tomar lo mejor del Romanticismo y la tem谩tica del doble y crear una historia con el suspense necesario para llevarnos a un final acorde a la trama que nos ofrece.
Gran parte de los ideales rom谩nticos est谩 ah铆, haciendo hincapi茅 en el titanismo y sobre todo en la lucha del bien y el mal que todos poseemos como seres humanos.
El caso del Dr. Jekyll es el claro ejemplo de querer hacer el bien para terminar sucumbiendo al peor de los pecados y terminar en la m谩s baja vileza y crueldad puesto que 茅l mismo acepta esta condici贸n a la que se expone tomando su dosis cuando afirma: "Ser tentado, para m铆, significaba caer".
Jekyll basa su condena a partir de lo que el denomina su defecto, ese defecto que se potencia asumiendo la monstruosa apariencia del Sr. Hyde y este pecado lo destruye y consume: "M谩s que defectos graves, fueron, por lo tanto, mis excesivas aspiraciones a hacer de m铆 lo que he sido, y a separar de m铆, m谩s radicalmente que en otros, esas dos zonas del bien y del mal que dividen y componen la doble naturaleza del hombre."
No es el primer personaje en ser tironeado por estas dos antag贸nicas fuerzas. Algunos lo hacen adrede, otros en forma involuntaria, pero en t茅rminos generales, el bien versus el mal est谩 en casi todas las novelas o cuentos que uno lea.
Pienso en algunos casos y me vienen a la mente 鈥淓l retrato de Dorian Gray鈥� de Oscar Wilde, 鈥淐rimen y Castigo鈥� de Fi贸dor Dostoievki, 鈥淟os elixires del Diablo鈥�, de E.T.A. Hoffmann y el 鈥淓l hombre invisible鈥� de H.G. Wells.
Creo que Dorian Gray y Griffin (El hombre invisible) son los personajes que m谩s puntos tienen en com煤n con Henry Jekyll, ya que que en esos casos la lucha no da tregua. El paralelismo entre Griffin y Jekyll es sorprendente, puesto que lo que en un principio y a partir de lo cient铆fico parece ser un avance, una mejora o un descubrimiento, r谩pidamente se convertir谩 en una maldici贸n muy dif铆cil de controlar y los resultados ser谩n nefastos.
En el libro 鈥淟os hermanos Karamazov鈥�, Dmitri afirma que 鈥淓l coraz贸n del hombre es el campo de batalla donde luchan Dios y el Diablo.鈥�
Pienso en el pobre Dr. Jekyll y me doy cuenta de que ya perdi贸 esa batalla de antemano.
October 27, 2016
4.5*
*Read for class*
*Read for class*
October 23, 2023
The power of this tale is the fact that nearly everyone on the planet knows the story, even though few have actually read the book. For the Victorian reader, Stevenson hides the twist of the book until near the end. For those readers, Hyde and Jekyll were two men until Jekyll鈥檚 confessional letter sets them straight. - from the intro--------------------------------------
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn鈥檛 specify the point. He鈥檚 an extraordinary looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can鈥檛 describe him. And it鈥檚 not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.There is much to be gained by re-reading the classics. Great works of literature are considered great for a reason, mostly because the truth of their excellence persists over time, as each generation discovers them anew. In a parallel vein many become embedded in our culture, and suffer, in popular application, the erosion of original purpose, of nuance. A 2012 study of memory found that:
Every time you remember an event from the past, your brain networks change in ways that can alter the later recall of the event. Thus, the next time you remember it, you might recall not the original event but what you remembered the previous time. - from the Northwestern article linked in EXTRA STUFFI expect this can be applied on a grander scale, to society and culture at large. Our recollection of the stories produced by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, for example, bears little resemblance to the truly grim tales they actually told, thanks in considerable measure to Disney. On becoming popularized, stories can become simplified, stripped down. Alice might recognize the great peculiarity of reducing complicated things to their elements to the extreme of absurdity.
鈥淲ell! I鈥檝e often seen a cat without a grin,鈥� thought Alice; 鈥渂ut a grin without a cat! It鈥檚 the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!鈥� - Alice in Alice in WonderlandWhat we have achieved in our collective recollection of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is just that, a grin without a cat. Jekyll has been reduced to a well-meaning physician, and Hyde a monstrous container for human evil. Black and white. Jekyll good, Hyde bad. Not so fast.
Stevenson in Samoa - image from Britannica
Jeff Keeten, long-time 欧宝娱乐 superstar reviewer, offers his take on the book in a thoughtful introduction. He points to the existence of an earlier, possibly more lurid version, of the novella, a 19th century Go Set a Watchman. Good or bad, it would have made a fascinating counterpoint to the final. Keeten provides some wonderful details about the writing of the story, and shows a thematic continuation from Stevenson鈥檚 prior work.
Jeffrey D. Keeten - image from Gravelight Press 鈥� it is remarkable what vast amounts of makeup and digital touching up can accomplish
For a quick refresher, there has been a series of dastardly deeds committed in a London neighborhood. We learn of these through Gabriel John Utterson, a lawyer, and friend of Jekyll. A culprit has been identified. Mr. Hyde, a known associate of Doctor Jekyll. Utterson is asked by Jekyll to treat Hyde as his heir. But as knowledge of Hyde鈥檚 activities becomes more widespread, Hyde must go into hyding (sorry). Exposition is handled via direct observation, but also via documents from another professional peer, and Jekyll鈥檚 final message to Utterson.
I read the original version of this novella (thirty-something thousand words) a lifetime ago. Can鈥檛 say that I remember it from that reading all that clearly. But I do recall the sense I have acquired from seeing multiple productions of the story on screens, and in print, both tellings of Stevenson鈥檚 story and interpretations of the work that extracted, or tried to extract, the substance of the allegory and apply it in a modern context. In its simplest understanding, the story highlights the conflict between good and evil in human nature.
John Barrymore in Hyde mode 鈥� 1920 鈥� image from Public Domain Movies
There are many tales that address what the natural state of humanity is, i.e., how might we behave without the benefit of civilization. Lord of the Flies pops to mind as a premier example of the genre. Keeten, in his excellent introduction, points out that Stevenson had shown in his other work an interest in internal moral divisions within people. Britannica describes Treasure Island as at once a gripping adventure tale and a wry comment on the ambiguity of human motives. But divisions are not necessarily slashed in straight lines down the core of our moral being. More than all else, one thing stood out for me in this latest reading. It is not a battle between good and evil. It is much more an attempt at accommodation. There is plenty of cat to go with that conflictual grin. Jekyll is no paragon. (BTW, according to Daniel Evers, of the University of Bristol, the proper Scottish pronunciation of Jekyll is 鈥楯ee-kul.鈥� 鈥� article on this is linked below.)
Spencer Tracy in the dual role, really, really wants you to pay your share of the bar bill - 1941 鈥� image from Fiction Fan Blog
He does not so much conduct objective research into where in people is drawn the line between good and evil. On the contrary, Jekyll knows he has urges and desires that are not considered socially acceptable. He is not so much looking to suppress those by some form of internal bifurcation. No, no no. He is looking to give his dark side free reign, while sparing his Jekyll side the inconvenience of conscience. So, what was Stevenson writing about? What was his intent? To show the hypocrisy of the Victorian upper class? I have not seen any specific report that he was a political writer in the way of Dickens, who used his work to highlight the class horrors of an age. Stevenson鈥檚 aim seemed more tilted toward demonstrating the internal conflict between good and evil that permeates us all.
Frederic March鈥檚 1932 version ignored Stevenson鈥檚 subtle distinction between the two 鈥� image from Fiction Fan Blog
And what is the relevance to today? How might we use the lens of this tale to gain a focus on our present? As noted above, classic tales are often reinterpreted to offer us a new take on modern themes. My favorite among these is the 1990s staging of Richard III, with Ian McKellan. I was blessed in being able to see it in person in Brooklyn, and later as a film. It was breathtaking, using a 16th century drama as a vehicle for portraying 20th century fascism. I get chills still, just thinking about it. It became clear to me that RLS鈥檚 scenario could be applied, as well, to the contemporary political realm.
Richard III as a fascist dictator 鈥� Ian McKellen in the 1996 film image from The Guardian - photo by Ronald Grant
In this take, the good doctor might be seen as the Republican Party of the mid-to-late 20th century. No longer the party of Lincoln, the GOP largely abandoned the good work their predecessors might have been proud of. Instead, particularly after the Southern Strategy of Richard Nixon, it became a party that was not only willing to tolerate its excesses, the racism
(In 1971 鈥� Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde offered an interesting twist - image from British Horror Films
that opposed civil rights legislation, the classist hostility that opposed the New Deal and Great Society, and any allegiance to sustaining a fair voting system. They understood that they had these urges and constructed potions meant to separate the worst behavior from the respectable core. This is where we get the Tea Party, Q, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and other on-the-ground kinetic actors, spurred on by demagogues spreading disgraceful lies, the Rush Limbaughs of the world, the Alex Joneses, the demagogues-du-jour on Fox News. The party wanted to let their fascist freak flag fly, but deniably. So, Jekyll wanted to give his dark urges a way to be sated, while maintaining a clear conscience, or, at the very least, deniability. Doctor Jekyll is not a good guy. And, as with the GOP, once you breathe life into your darker side, that darker side will not be satisfied with partial residence for long, no matter how many lies he tells, or how much orange hair dye he might use. As with Jekyll, over time, the GOP feels less and less constrained by decency, as they boldly attack voting rights, civil rights, even the law itself, with a decreasing need for an external beard. What might Jekyll v. Hyde stand for in your understanding of the 21st century? There may be other elements that jump out for you, aspects that shift your take on the dumbed-down vision most of us have of the J/H conflict.
In a 1990 production, Michael Caine is really tired of the other actors calling him Alfie. - image from TV Worth Watching
There is a short story added on at the end, Markheim. It is rich with familiar elements and it is clear that, published only a year before J/H, it was a primary source from which the longer tale grew. It would be easy, though, to see it as an alternate ending to the later novella.
Eddie Izzard has signed on to play a trans Dr Jekyll in an upcoming production
And, of course, it would be perfectly natural if, at the end of reading, or re-reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you are of two minds about it all.
in one of my more wakeful moments, my eyes fell upon my hand. Now the hand of Henry Jekyll (as you have often remarked) was professional in shape and size; it was large, firm, white and comely. But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde.
Review posted - 7/07/23
Publication date 鈥� 4/3/23 鈥� of this volume 鈥� J/H was first published in 1886
I received an ARE of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from Gravelight Press in return for a fair review, and a printout of my special formula. Thanks, folks,
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It was definitely a fun experience for me to trot down memory lane for a re-look, and a better look at J/H. Keeten鈥檚 smart intro definitely helps. You might also check out some of the links below for more. Gravelight promises a slew of horror classics, one new one every six months or so. Upcoming are The Picture of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein, complete with Keeten鈥檚 insightful introductions. Nifty collection material for horror afficionados, and ideal gifts for Halloween. No, I do not get a commission!
Links to Keeten鈥檚 , , and pages
I have written one prior review for a book intro鈥檇 by Jeffrey Keeten
----- Exhumed: 13 Tales Too Terrifying to Stay Dead 鈥� edited by David Yurkovich
Songs/Music
-----The Who -
-----Bear McCreary - - the theme song of the TV series Outlander sets a Stevenson poem to music
Items of Interest
-----British Library - by Greg Buzzwell
-----Wiki - - There is a wonderful catalog here of J/H productions from 1887 to the present
-----Northwestern Now - by Maria Paul
-----Britannica -
-----Interesting Literature - by Daniel Evers
-----Dark Worlds Quarterly - offers a fun look at comic treatments over the ages
What me worry? - from above article
May 2, 2021
This was the first adult story I read when I was younger. I remember being captivated by the idea of a dual life and man's sinister shadowy side. Now many years later this story still had me enthralled. I enjoyed this story because it contains the elements of mystery, suspense, and psychological thriller. The writing is eloquent and almost lyrical that can only come from another time, yet is readable.
The descriptive imagery along the backdrop of a foggy, dark, and Jack the Ripperesque London set the stage perfectly. The duality of good vs. evil, conscious vs. unconscious, and steadfast rigidness vs. uncompromising pleasure were themes I interpreted.
This remains one of my favorite books after all these years. This is not the last time I read it. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys classic literature and a good story. Thanks!
October 26, 2021
Stevenson nunca me decepciona. Excelente historia.
Conoc铆 esta historia, como probablemente much铆simas personas, gracias a los Looney Tunes. Es imposible olvidar ese cap铆tulo tan cl谩sico y divertido, en el que Piol铆n entra a un laboratorio para descansar un poco ya que Silvestre lo est谩 persiguiendo con frenes铆 para com茅rselo; all铆, y todos recordar谩n, Piol铆n ignorando el contenido de las probetas decide tomarse lo primero que encuentra porque tiene mucha sed. No obstante, para su sorpresa, para terror de Silvestre y para nuestra diversi贸n, Piol铆n sufre una metamorfosis que lo vuelve un verdadero monstruo, pasando de ser perseguido a persecutor. 隆Pobre Silvestre, siempre desee que se tragara a Piol铆n! Pues bien, esa caricatura al igual que muchos programas de tem谩tica similar, realmente est谩n basados en esta historia. En la inocencia de nuestra infancia no nos preguntamos de donde se originan las historias, solo las consumimos porque son divertidas o nos gustan, pero al crecer cambia todo, crecer tambi茅n consiste en descubrir el pasado de nuestra raza, y conocer a los genios que crearon lo que nos gusta, importa, o necesitamos en nuestra vida. Libros como este no pasar谩n de moda jam谩s: Es imposible, son cl谩sicos que nacieron para perdurar por siempre. En esta ocasi贸n, el genio se llama Robert Stevenson 鈥攆amoso por su tambi茅n conocid铆sima La isla del Tesoro鈥� que aqu铆 nos muestra su mejor literatura, ingenio y capacidad de construir una historia perfecta. A veces cuando pienso en la muerte, siento que es una pena que personas con una capacidad tan grande para dejar huella en la humanidad, tengan que morir. As铆 es la vida, y se debe aceptar nuestro destino final, pero es una pena que genios como Stevenson transiten tan poco tiempo en este mundo llamado Tierra.
Desde los t铆tulos de los cap铆tulos que son bastante aclaratorios y que encienden la chispa de nuestra curiosidad, hasta la perfecta estructura del libro que consta de tan solo diez cap铆tulos, hacen de esta lectura una historia adictiva que nos querremos comer de un solo bocado. Naturalmente, como ya conocemos por adaptaciones, caricaturas y dem谩s el contexto de la historia, entonces ser谩 predecible lo que encontraremos en las p谩ginas; no obstante eso deja de importar, porque empezamos a sentir curiosidad por la forma c贸mo se desarrollar谩 la trama, y tambi茅n por los motivos, historia y pensamientos que llevaron al cient铆fico a realizar su experimento. Lo mejor es que entre m谩s avanzan las p谩ginas m谩s interesante se torna el libro, y este efecto no termina sino hasta cuando aparecen ante nuestros ojos la palabra 芦Fin禄. Las explicaciones, dudas o intrigas quedan perfectamente explicadas, e incluso me atrevo a decir que hace mucho no le铆a un final tan bien planteado y presentado como el que Stevenson nos regala en esta historia: Una real obra maestra.
Los personajes han estado bien elaborados, pero naturalmente toda la atenci贸n se la roba el Dr. Jekyll. El Dr. Jekyll es el claro ejemplo de que podemos llenar nuestros cerebros de miles de conocimientos, obtener diplomas, superar estudios y ser distinguidos por nuestro trabajo, pero si no somos capaces de 鈥攐 no intentamos鈥� buscar un espacio para aprender a conocer nuestras debilidades, avaricias, maldad oculta en el interior, y deseos m谩s oscuros, entonces tarde que temprano sentiremos tentaciones, que si no sabemos controlar, nos llevar谩n a nuestra inevitable perdici贸n. Si no evolucionamos, si no controlamos esa bestia interior que busca destrucci贸n, nos transformaremos en una clase de putrefacci贸n sin valor; en ese momento las piedras tendr谩n m谩s valor que nosotros mismos. El Dr. Jekyll, y su doble personalidad, demuestran claramente que nunca dejaremos de tener maldad en nuestros corazones, por lo que lo importante es tomar el control de las decisiones de nuestra vida. 驴C贸mo pueden nuestras decisiones afectar a los dem谩s? 驴La conciencia nos castigar谩 por los actos inmorales de nuestra irresponsabilidad? 驴Qu茅 ganaremos, qu茅 perderemos? Eso s铆, quiero aclarar que no juzgo las decisiones del Dr. Jekyll porque cualquier persona, en una situaci贸n similar, podr铆a tomar el mismo camino. Reconocer que s茅 es viejo, no debe ser f谩cil; reconocer que no tenemos salud para movernos como antes, tampoco debe ser sencillo; y tener a nuestro alcance la posibilidad de probar un experimento revolucionario, debe producir mucha tentaci贸n en nuestros pensamientos. Realmente, este personaje es una genialidad, psicol贸gicamente es muy interesante para analizarlo.
Asimismo, esta historia es interesante para meditar sobre los riesgos de usar la ciencia con irresponsabilidad. S铆, se deben hacer miles de experimentos para progresar como humanidad, pero el problema es cuando se experimenta sin ser prudentes; el problema es cuando la obsesi贸n de un descubrimiento o avance cient铆fico lleva a la humanidad a actuar con histeria. Esas ansias de tener fama, de 芦ser alguien en la vida禄, de 芦ser los primeros禄, de 芦ser m谩s poderosos禄, pueden producir m谩s da帽o y consecuencias que las buenas intenciones. Reconozco que hay situaciones que necesitan soluciones inmediatas, pero es un gran problema que siempre se requiera para todo, ese tipo de soluciones. Las respuestas r谩pidas traen errores, y esos errores traen m谩s problemas: Es un ciclo interminable. Esta obra siempre se clasificar谩 como una historia de terror, pero tambi茅n podr铆a clasificarse como una seria cr铆tica hacia la irresponsabilidad cient铆fica y a la locura de la curiosidad.
En resumen, una historia que me ha dejado completamente satisfecho en todos los aspectos (Prosa, argumento, personajes, ritmo y final), y que me incita a leer m谩s obras del autor. Llev贸 cuatro escritos le铆dos de Stevenson 鈥�El diablo de la botella, La isla del tesoro, El ladr贸n de cad谩veres, y este libro鈥�, y en todos he finalizado muy complacido por el contenido. En este momento me siento tan a gusto con el autor, que incluso surge en m铆, el deseo de repetir La isla del tesoro que ya he le铆do dos veces anteriormente. Ser铆a il贸gico no recomendar a uno de mis autores favoritos, ser铆a il贸gico despu茅s de todo lo escrito no puntuar esta obra con cinco estrellas, ser铆a il贸gico que esta historia no se fuera directo a mis favoritos. Excelente libro.
Conoc铆 esta historia, como probablemente much铆simas personas, gracias a los Looney Tunes. Es imposible olvidar ese cap铆tulo tan cl谩sico y divertido, en el que Piol铆n entra a un laboratorio para descansar un poco ya que Silvestre lo est谩 persiguiendo con frenes铆 para com茅rselo; all铆, y todos recordar谩n, Piol铆n ignorando el contenido de las probetas decide tomarse lo primero que encuentra porque tiene mucha sed. No obstante, para su sorpresa, para terror de Silvestre y para nuestra diversi贸n, Piol铆n sufre una metamorfosis que lo vuelve un verdadero monstruo, pasando de ser perseguido a persecutor. 隆Pobre Silvestre, siempre desee que se tragara a Piol铆n! Pues bien, esa caricatura al igual que muchos programas de tem谩tica similar, realmente est谩n basados en esta historia. En la inocencia de nuestra infancia no nos preguntamos de donde se originan las historias, solo las consumimos porque son divertidas o nos gustan, pero al crecer cambia todo, crecer tambi茅n consiste en descubrir el pasado de nuestra raza, y conocer a los genios que crearon lo que nos gusta, importa, o necesitamos en nuestra vida. Libros como este no pasar谩n de moda jam谩s: Es imposible, son cl谩sicos que nacieron para perdurar por siempre. En esta ocasi贸n, el genio se llama Robert Stevenson 鈥攆amoso por su tambi茅n conocid铆sima La isla del Tesoro鈥� que aqu铆 nos muestra su mejor literatura, ingenio y capacidad de construir una historia perfecta. A veces cuando pienso en la muerte, siento que es una pena que personas con una capacidad tan grande para dejar huella en la humanidad, tengan que morir. As铆 es la vida, y se debe aceptar nuestro destino final, pero es una pena que genios como Stevenson transiten tan poco tiempo en este mundo llamado Tierra.
Desde los t铆tulos de los cap铆tulos que son bastante aclaratorios y que encienden la chispa de nuestra curiosidad, hasta la perfecta estructura del libro que consta de tan solo diez cap铆tulos, hacen de esta lectura una historia adictiva que nos querremos comer de un solo bocado. Naturalmente, como ya conocemos por adaptaciones, caricaturas y dem谩s el contexto de la historia, entonces ser谩 predecible lo que encontraremos en las p谩ginas; no obstante eso deja de importar, porque empezamos a sentir curiosidad por la forma c贸mo se desarrollar谩 la trama, y tambi茅n por los motivos, historia y pensamientos que llevaron al cient铆fico a realizar su experimento. Lo mejor es que entre m谩s avanzan las p谩ginas m谩s interesante se torna el libro, y este efecto no termina sino hasta cuando aparecen ante nuestros ojos la palabra 芦Fin禄. Las explicaciones, dudas o intrigas quedan perfectamente explicadas, e incluso me atrevo a decir que hace mucho no le铆a un final tan bien planteado y presentado como el que Stevenson nos regala en esta historia: Una real obra maestra.
Los personajes han estado bien elaborados, pero naturalmente toda la atenci贸n se la roba el Dr. Jekyll. El Dr. Jekyll es el claro ejemplo de que podemos llenar nuestros cerebros de miles de conocimientos, obtener diplomas, superar estudios y ser distinguidos por nuestro trabajo, pero si no somos capaces de 鈥攐 no intentamos鈥� buscar un espacio para aprender a conocer nuestras debilidades, avaricias, maldad oculta en el interior, y deseos m谩s oscuros, entonces tarde que temprano sentiremos tentaciones, que si no sabemos controlar, nos llevar谩n a nuestra inevitable perdici贸n. Si no evolucionamos, si no controlamos esa bestia interior que busca destrucci贸n, nos transformaremos en una clase de putrefacci贸n sin valor; en ese momento las piedras tendr谩n m谩s valor que nosotros mismos. El Dr. Jekyll, y su doble personalidad, demuestran claramente que nunca dejaremos de tener maldad en nuestros corazones, por lo que lo importante es tomar el control de las decisiones de nuestra vida. 驴C贸mo pueden nuestras decisiones afectar a los dem谩s? 驴La conciencia nos castigar谩 por los actos inmorales de nuestra irresponsabilidad? 驴Qu茅 ganaremos, qu茅 perderemos? Eso s铆, quiero aclarar que no juzgo las decisiones del Dr. Jekyll porque cualquier persona, en una situaci贸n similar, podr铆a tomar el mismo camino. Reconocer que s茅 es viejo, no debe ser f谩cil; reconocer que no tenemos salud para movernos como antes, tampoco debe ser sencillo; y tener a nuestro alcance la posibilidad de probar un experimento revolucionario, debe producir mucha tentaci贸n en nuestros pensamientos. Realmente, este personaje es una genialidad, psicol贸gicamente es muy interesante para analizarlo.
Asimismo, esta historia es interesante para meditar sobre los riesgos de usar la ciencia con irresponsabilidad. S铆, se deben hacer miles de experimentos para progresar como humanidad, pero el problema es cuando se experimenta sin ser prudentes; el problema es cuando la obsesi贸n de un descubrimiento o avance cient铆fico lleva a la humanidad a actuar con histeria. Esas ansias de tener fama, de 芦ser alguien en la vida禄, de 芦ser los primeros禄, de 芦ser m谩s poderosos禄, pueden producir m谩s da帽o y consecuencias que las buenas intenciones. Reconozco que hay situaciones que necesitan soluciones inmediatas, pero es un gran problema que siempre se requiera para todo, ese tipo de soluciones. Las respuestas r谩pidas traen errores, y esos errores traen m谩s problemas: Es un ciclo interminable. Esta obra siempre se clasificar谩 como una historia de terror, pero tambi茅n podr铆a clasificarse como una seria cr铆tica hacia la irresponsabilidad cient铆fica y a la locura de la curiosidad.
En resumen, una historia que me ha dejado completamente satisfecho en todos los aspectos (Prosa, argumento, personajes, ritmo y final), y que me incita a leer m谩s obras del autor. Llev贸 cuatro escritos le铆dos de Stevenson 鈥�El diablo de la botella, La isla del tesoro, El ladr贸n de cad谩veres, y este libro鈥�, y en todos he finalizado muy complacido por el contenido. En este momento me siento tan a gusto con el autor, que incluso surge en m铆, el deseo de repetir La isla del tesoro que ya he le铆do dos veces anteriormente. Ser铆a il贸gico no recomendar a uno de mis autores favoritos, ser铆a il贸gico despu茅s de todo lo escrito no puntuar esta obra con cinco estrellas, ser铆a il贸gico que esta historia no se fuera directo a mis favoritos. Excelente libro.
August 8, 2022
Poco puedo decir sobre este cl谩sico que no se haya dicho ya.
Me sorprenden las representaciones que el Sr. Hyde ha sufrido con el paso de los a帽os, sobre todo, en el cine. Me hab铆a hecho una imagen muy equivocada del Sr. Hyde.
Hay muchos, muchos temas que subyacen a esta novela: la libertad de hacer lo que uno quiere sin someterse a las normas de la sociedad; el atractivo de la maldad; la inmortalidad; deseos reprimidos, etc, etc.
Te hace reflexionar mucho sobre uno mismo y las pulsiones m谩s reprimidas que todos albergamos dentro y que pugnan por salir.
Adem谩s, Stevenson nos describe muy bien el Londres de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Crea un ambiente opresivo y m铆stico aunque no llega a las cotas de Edgar Allan Poe.
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There is little I can say about this classic that has not already been said.
I am amazed at the representations that Mr. Hyde has suffered over the years, especially in the cinema. I had a very wrong image of Mr. Hyde.
There are many, many themes underlying this novel: the freedom to do what one wants without submitting to society's rules; the lure of evil; immortality; repressed desires, etc, etc.
It makes you think a lot about yourself and the most repressed impulses that we all harbour inside and that struggle to come out.
In addition, Stevenson describes very well the London of the second half of the 19th century. He creates an oppressive and mystical atmosphere, although he doesn't reach the heights of Edgar Allan Poe.
Me sorprenden las representaciones que el Sr. Hyde ha sufrido con el paso de los a帽os, sobre todo, en el cine. Me hab铆a hecho una imagen muy equivocada del Sr. Hyde.
Hay muchos, muchos temas que subyacen a esta novela: la libertad de hacer lo que uno quiere sin someterse a las normas de la sociedad; el atractivo de la maldad; la inmortalidad; deseos reprimidos, etc, etc.
Te hace reflexionar mucho sobre uno mismo y las pulsiones m谩s reprimidas que todos albergamos dentro y que pugnan por salir.
Adem谩s, Stevenson nos describe muy bien el Londres de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Crea un ambiente opresivo y m铆stico aunque no llega a las cotas de Edgar Allan Poe.
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There is little I can say about this classic that has not already been said.
I am amazed at the representations that Mr. Hyde has suffered over the years, especially in the cinema. I had a very wrong image of Mr. Hyde.
There are many, many themes underlying this novel: the freedom to do what one wants without submitting to society's rules; the lure of evil; immortality; repressed desires, etc, etc.
It makes you think a lot about yourself and the most repressed impulses that we all harbour inside and that struggle to come out.
In addition, Stevenson describes very well the London of the second half of the 19th century. He creates an oppressive and mystical atmosphere, although he doesn't reach the heights of Edgar Allan Poe.
February 9, 2020
En parte es una pena que esta historia sea tan archiconocida, porque el misterio principal se pierde y quiz谩s es lo que sorprende del relato. Me hubiera gustado ir sin saber, pero eso, con tanta fama y tantas adaptaciones era imposible. A煤n as铆, me ha gustado bastante, y me he llevado alguna peque帽a sorpresa.
La primera de las sorpresitas es que siempre di por hecho que la historia no solo se centrar铆a en Jekyll y Hyde, si no que la ver铆amos desde el punto de vista de ellos, pero me equivocaba de todas todas. La historia va a ser narrada por un amigo de Jekyll, el abogado mr. Utterson. Este se帽or ir谩 descubriendo con el paso de los d铆as, que algo raro pasa en relaci贸n a su buen amigo Jekyll, y ese extra帽o y perverso personajillo llamado Hyde.
El relato tiene tensi贸n, tiene escenas escalofriantes, que lo podr铆an haber sido m谩s, si fueras a ciegas a esta novela. Igualmente, se le concede el m茅rito. Y tambi茅n lo tiene otra cosa que no me esperaba, y es que esas transformaciones son, inicialmente buscadas y deseadas, siempre pens茅 que era algo que ocurr铆a sin nign煤n tipo de control. Curioso que esto de pie al juicio moralista de la 茅poca sobre el vicio y como luchar contra 茅l. Varios debates interesantes se abren.
驴Parte mala? Su brevevedad y tambi茅n, nuevamente, ir sabiendo el final. El resto genial. Un cl谩sico de la novela g贸tica que hay que leer, indudablemente.
La primera de las sorpresitas es que siempre di por hecho que la historia no solo se centrar铆a en Jekyll y Hyde, si no que la ver铆amos desde el punto de vista de ellos, pero me equivocaba de todas todas. La historia va a ser narrada por un amigo de Jekyll, el abogado mr. Utterson. Este se帽or ir谩 descubriendo con el paso de los d铆as, que algo raro pasa en relaci贸n a su buen amigo Jekyll, y ese extra帽o y perverso personajillo llamado Hyde.
El relato tiene tensi贸n, tiene escenas escalofriantes, que lo podr铆an haber sido m谩s, si fueras a ciegas a esta novela. Igualmente, se le concede el m茅rito. Y tambi茅n lo tiene otra cosa que no me esperaba, y es que esas transformaciones son, inicialmente buscadas y deseadas, siempre pens茅 que era algo que ocurr铆a sin nign煤n tipo de control. Curioso que esto de pie al juicio moralista de la 茅poca sobre el vicio y como luchar contra 茅l. Varios debates interesantes se abren.
驴Parte mala? Su brevevedad y tambi茅n, nuevamente, ir sabiendo el final. El resto genial. Un cl谩sico de la novela g贸tica que hay que leer, indudablemente.
March 15, 2020
4 STARS!
Due to going to Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands in a couple of months, I wanted to read a few books set in this area or at least by a Scottish author.
Enter...
Robert Louis Stevenson with his well-loved classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
I love reading good classics and I enjoyed this one! Mr. Utterson is investigating the presence of a person called Edward Hyde who is in contact with his good friend, the doctor Henry Jekyll.
Hyde is evil, abhorrent and Mr. Utterson can't understand why his friend Jekyll has relations with this person.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a twisted tale and a great one to read. There's something so strange of a person
SIDENOTE:
The great thing about internet sleuthing is finding out that this book might have been based off a real person. William Brodie, a well-respected man in Scotland who was a cabinet maker. He was also on the city council because of his influence and wealth.
BUT...
He was also a skilled locksmith and had duplicate copies of house keys made of his clients' homes.
Yeah, that's not going to end well. He robbed them blind! Brodie used his double life to indulge in his own vices from gambling, mistresses and even cock fighting.
I can't wait to go to the pub, Deacon Brodies Tavern in Edinburgh and have a drink to this two faced mastermind.
Kudos to Robert Louis Stevenson for creating a unforgettable classic!
Due to going to Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands in a couple of months, I wanted to read a few books set in this area or at least by a Scottish author.
Enter...
Robert Louis Stevenson with his well-loved classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
I love reading good classics and I enjoyed this one! Mr. Utterson is investigating the presence of a person called Edward Hyde who is in contact with his good friend, the doctor Henry Jekyll.
Hyde is evil, abhorrent and Mr. Utterson can't understand why his friend Jekyll has relations with this person.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a twisted tale and a great one to read. There's something so strange of a person
SIDENOTE:
The great thing about internet sleuthing is finding out that this book might have been based off a real person. William Brodie, a well-respected man in Scotland who was a cabinet maker. He was also on the city council because of his influence and wealth.
BUT...
He was also a skilled locksmith and had duplicate copies of house keys made of his clients' homes.
Yeah, that's not going to end well. He robbed them blind! Brodie used his double life to indulge in his own vices from gambling, mistresses and even cock fighting.
I can't wait to go to the pub, Deacon Brodies Tavern in Edinburgh and have a drink to this two faced mastermind.
Kudos to Robert Louis Stevenson for creating a unforgettable classic!
March 9, 2020
Bulgarian review below/袪械胁褞褌芯 薪邪 斜褗谢谐邪褉褋泻懈 械 锌芯-写芯谢褍
鈥淚f he be Mr. Hyde鈥�, he had thought, 鈥淚 shall be Mr. Seek鈥�.
If 鈥淛ekyll and Hyde鈥� was a painting, it would鈥檝e been Edvard Munch鈥檚 鈥淭he Scream鈥�. If it was a mental illness, it would鈥檝e been dissociative identity disorder, not schizophrenia, as is the popular guess if there鈥檚 more than one of you inside your head. I would say that the story can also be likened to a long dark tea-time of the soul, because it would take you just that much to read it. Beware however, for you will ponder it for a long time afterwards and it鈥檒l make your flesh creep.
I suppose it can be argued that in each of us there鈥檚 something we cannot fully explain. It happens to be seen 鈥渋n a bad light鈥�, we 鈥渏ump out of our skin鈥� or we 鈥渁re out of our senses鈥�. Thinking about it, we have a slight obsession for others to perceive us in our good half, or third, or however many sides we imagine that we have. This is probably also related to the prehistoric fear of banishment from the community, which meant certain death due to the lack of mammoth meat for dinner, or the roar of a predatory saber-toothed cat instead of 鈥済ood morning鈥�. The strain to appear more normal than we actually are is one of the curses of mankind. Sometimes the exertion of this exhausts us completely, and we even begin to wonder if there is such a thing as 鈥渘ormality鈥�. The answer, of course, is always 鈥渘o鈥�.
In his Gothic novel, Robert Louis Stevenson carries to excess the good Dr. Jekyll鈥檚 struggle with his inner demons, and thus the blood-chilling Hyde appears. What better metaphor for the guileful human nature than being both the protagonist and the antagonist of one鈥檚 own life. One would have thought that if you cut off the sprout of evil in yourself and throw it away like a weed, it would be some sort of an ending. However, weeds have the annoying propensity to grow under all types of unfavorable conditions, unlike goodness, which, alas, requires quite special care and everlasting nourishment. Mr. Hyde, uprooted and then sprouting, left alone to his own devilish devices, slowly begins to choke his creator. The natural course of everything is towards chaos. Many efforts are needed to harness the chaos in one鈥檚 soul. Denial though only aggravates the situation.
Mr. Hyde is an allegory of the evil which smoulders in each of us. The scientific exorcism practiced by Jekyll eloquently shows the catastrophic consequences when one isn鈥檛 reconciled with all pieces of their own nature and is trying to be something they are not. It also shows that if you try to trick the much needed equilibrium in nature, nothing good is in store for you. I don鈥檛 entirely agree with Sartre, who thinks 鈥渉ell is other people鈥�. Hell is always in our own consciousness. And everything that it shows us is just an illusion.
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鈥淚f he be Mr. Hyde鈥�, he had thought, 鈥淚 shall be Mr. Seek鈥�,
袗泻芯 鈥炐斝缎敌盒感� 懈 啸邪泄写鈥� 斜械褕械 泻邪褉褌懈薪邪, 褖械褕械 写邪 械 鈥炐捫感貉娧傗€� 薪邪 袝写胁邪褉写 袦褍薪泻. 袗泻芯 斜械褕械 蟹邪斜芯谢褟胁邪薪械, 褖械褕械 写邪 械 写懈褋芯褑懈邪褌懈胁薪芯 褉邪蟹褋褌褉芯泄褋褌胁芯 薪邪 谢懈褔薪芯褋褌褌邪, 薪械 褕懈蟹芯褎褉械薪懈褟, 泻邪泻褌芯 械 锌芯锌褍谢褟褉薪芯 写邪 褋械 褋屑褟褌邪, 邪泻芯 褋褌械 锌芯胁械褔械 芯褌 械写懈薪 褌邪屑 薪褟泻褗写械 胁褗褌褉械. 袘懈褏 泻邪蟹邪谢邪, 褔械 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟褌邪 屑芯卸械 写邪 褋械 芯锌褉懈谢懈褔懈 懈 薪邪 写褗谢褗谐, 屑褉邪褔械薪 褋谢械写芯斜械写械薪 褔邪泄 薪邪 写褍褕邪褌邪, 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 斜懈 胁懈 芯褌薪械谢芯 写邪 褟 锌褉芯褔械褌械褌械. 袣芯谢泻芯 胁褉械屑械 褋谢械写 褌芯胁邪 褖械 褋懈 屑懈褋谢懈褌械 蟹邪 薪械褟 懈 褖械 薪邪褋褌褉褗褏胁邪褌械, 械 褋褗胁褋械屑 写褉褍谐 胁褗锌褉芯褋.
袩褉械写锌芯谢邪谐邪屑 屑芯卸械 写邪 褋械 锌芯褋锌芯褉懈, 褔械 胁褗胁 胁褋械泻懈 芯褌 薪邪褋 锌褉械斜懈胁邪胁邪 锌芯 薪械褖芯, 泻芯械褌芯 薪械 屑芯卸械屑 薪邪锌褗谢薪芯 写邪 芯斜褟褋薪懈屑. 小谢褍褔胁邪 褋械 写邪 薪懈 胁懈写褟褌 鈥炐� 谢芯褕邪 褋胁械褌谢懈薪邪鈥�, 鈥炐感沸恍感沸靶夹� 懈蟹胁褗薪 泻芯卸邪褌邪 褋懈鈥� 懈谢懈 鈥炐叫� 褋屑械 薪邪 褋械斜械 褋懈鈥�. 袣邪褌芯 褋械 蟹邪屑懈褋谢褟, 懈屑邪屑械 谢械泻邪 芯斜褋械斜械薪芯褋褌 写褉褍谐懈褌械 写邪 薪懈 胁褗蟹锌褉懈械屑邪褌 芯褌泻褗屑 写芯斜褉邪褌邪 薪懈 锌芯谢芯胁懈薪邪, 褌褉械褌懈薪邪 懈谢懈 泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 褌邪屑 褋褌褉邪薪懈 褋懈 胁褗芯斜褉邪蟹褟胁邪 胁褋械泻懈, 褔械 懈屑邪. 袙械褉芯褟褌薪芯 褌芯胁邪 械 褋胁褗褉蟹邪薪芯 褋 锌褉邪懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈褟 褋褌褉邪褏 芯褌 芯褌谢褗褔胁邪薪械 芯褌 芯斜褖薪芯褋褌褌邪, 泻芯泄褌芯 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪谢 褋懈谐褍褉薪邪 褋屑褗褉褌 锌芯褉邪写懈 谢懈锌褋邪 薪邪 屑邪屑褍褌褋泻芯 屑械褋芯 蟹邪 胁械褔械褉褟 懈谢懈 褉械胁 薪邪 泻褉褗胁芯卸邪写械薪 褋邪斜谢械蟹褗斜 胁屑械褋褌芯 鈥炐葱拘毖€芯 褍褌褉芯鈥�. 袧邪锌褉械卸械薪懈械褌芯 写邪 褋械 锌芯泻邪卸械屑 锌芯-薪芯褉屑邪谢薪懈, 芯褌泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 胁褋褗褖薪芯褋褌 褋屑械, 械 械写薪芯 芯褌 锌褉芯泻谢褟褌懈褟褌邪 薪邪 褔芯胁械褔械褋褌胁芯褌芯. 袩芯薪褟泻芯谐邪 褍褋懈谢懈械褌芯 芯褌 褌芯胁邪 薪懈 懈蟹褑械卸写邪 薪邪锌褗谢薪芯 懈 泻邪褌芯 褑褟谢芯 蟹邪锌芯褔胁邪屑械 写邪 褋械 锌懈褌邪屑械 懈屑邪 谢懈 褌邪泻芯胁邪 薪械褖芯 泻邪褌芯 鈥炐叫狙€屑邪谢薪芯褋褌鈥�. 袨褌谐芯胁芯褉褗褌, 褉邪蟹斜懈褉邪 褋械, 胁懈薪邪谐懈 械 鈥炐叫碘€�.
袙 褋胁芯褟褌邪 谐芯褌懈褔械褋泻邪 薪芯胁械谢邪 袪芯斜褗褉褌 袥褍懈褋 小褌懈胁褗薪褋褗薪 写芯胁械卸写邪 写芯 泻褉邪泄薪芯褋褌 褋褏胁邪褌泻邪褌邪 薪邪 写芯斜褉懈褟 写芯泻褌芯褉 袛卸械泻懈谢 褋 胁褗褌褉械褕薪懈褌械 屑褍 斜械褋芯胁械 懈 褌邪泻邪 褋械 锌芯褟胁褟胁邪 褋屑褉邪蟹褟胁邪褖懈褟褌 泻褉褗胁褌邪 啸邪泄写. 袣邪泻胁邪 锌芯-写芯斜褉邪 屑械褌邪褎芯褉邪 薪邪 谢褍泻邪胁邪褌邪 褔芯胁械褕泻邪 锌褉懈褉芯写邪 芯褌 褌芯胁邪 写邪 褋懈 械写薪芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯 锌褉芯褌邪谐芯薪懈褋褌褗褌 懈 邪薪褌邪谐芯薪懈褋褌褗褌 薪邪 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪懈褟 褋懈 卸懈胁芯褌. 效芯胁械泻 斜懈 锌芯屑懈褋谢懈谢, 褔械 邪泻芯 芯褌泻褗褋薪械褕 懈蟹写褗薪泻邪褌邪 薪邪 蟹谢芯褌芯 褍 褋械斜械 褋懈 懈 褟 蟹邪褏胁褗褉谢懈褕 泻邪褌芯 锌谢械胁械谢, 褌芯胁邪 褖械 械 薪械褖芯 泻邪褌芯 泻褉邪泄. 袩谢械胁械谢懈褌械 芯斜邪褔械 懈屑邪褌 写芯褋邪写薪芯褌芯 褋胁芯泄褋褌胁芯 写邪 褉邪褋褌邪褌 锌褉懈 胁褋褟泻邪泻胁懈 薪械斜谢邪谐芯锌褉懈褟褌薪懈 褍褋谢芯胁懈褟, 蟹邪 褉邪蟹谢懈泻邪 芯褌 写芯斜褉芯褌芯, 薪邪 泻芯械褌芯, 褍胁懈, 屑褍 褌褉褟斜胁邪褌 写芯褋褌邪 褋锌械褑懈邪谢薪懈 谐褉懈卸懈 懈 薪械锌褉械泻褗褋薪邪褌芯 锌芯写褏褉邪薪胁邪薪械. 袚芯褋锌芯写懈薪 啸邪泄写, 懈蟹褌褉褗谐薪邪褌 懈 锌芯褋谢械 锌芯泻褗谢薪邪谢, 芯褋褌邪胁械薪 褋邪屑 薪邪 褋械斜械 褋懈 懈 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪懈褌械 褋懈 写褟胁芯谢褋泻懈 褉邪蟹胁谢械褔械薪懈褟, 斜邪胁薪芯 蟹邪锌芯褔胁邪 写邪 蟹邪写褍褕邪胁邪 褋褗蟹写邪褌械谢褟 褋懈. 袝褋褌械褋褌胁械薪懈褟褌 褏芯写 薪邪 胁褋懈褔泻芯 械 泻褗屑 褏邪芯褋. 袦薪芯谐芯 褍褋懈谢懈褟 褌褉褟斜胁邪褌, 蟹邪 写邪 褋械 芯胁谢邪写械械 褏邪芯褋褗褌 胁 薪械褔懈褟 写褍褕邪. 袨褌褉懈褔邪薪械褌芯 芯斜邪褔械 褋邪屑芯 胁谢芯褕邪胁邪 锌芯谢芯卸械薪懈械褌芯.
袚芯褋锌芯写懈薪 啸邪泄写 械 邪谢械谐芯褉懈褟 薪邪 蟹谢芯褌芯, 泻芯械褌芯 褌谢械械 锌芯 屑邪谢泻芯 胁褗胁 胁褋械泻懈. 袧邪褍褔薪懈褟褌 械泻蟹芯褉褋懈蟹褗屑, 泻芯泄褌芯 锌褉邪泻褌懈泻褍胁邪 袛卸械泻懈谢, 泻褉邪褋薪芯褉械褔懈胁芯 锌芯泻邪蟹胁邪 泻邪褌邪褋褌褉芯褎邪谢薪懈褌械 锌芯褋谢械写懈褑懈, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 薪褟泻芯泄 薪械 褋械 械 锌芯屑懈褉懈谢 褋 胁褋懈褔泻懈 褔邪褋褌懈 薪邪 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪邪褌邪 褋懈 褋褗褖薪芯褋褌 懈 褋械 芯锌懈褌胁邪 写邪 斜褗写械 薪械褖芯, 泻芯械褌芯 薪械 械. 袩芯泻邪蟹胁邪 褋褗褖芯 懈 褔械 邪泻芯 褋械 芯锌懈褌邪褌械 写邪 懈蟹懈谐褉邪械褌械 褉邪胁薪芯胁械褋懈械褌芯, 泻芯械褌芯 械 薪械芯斜褏芯写懈屑芯 胁 锌褉懈褉芯写邪褌邪, 薪械 胁懈 褔邪泻邪 薪懈褖芯 写芯斜褉芯. 袧械 褋褗屑 薪邪锌褗谢薪芯 褋褗谐谢邪褋薪邪 褋褗褋 小邪褉褌褉, 泻芯泄褌芯 褋屑褟褌邪, 褔械 鈥炐靶囱娧� 鈥� 褌芯胁邪 褋邪 写褉褍谐懈褌械鈥�. 袗写褗褌 胁懈薪邪谐懈 械 胁 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪芯褌芯 薪懈 褋褗蟹薪邪薪懈械. 袗 胁褋懈褔泻芯, 泻芯械褌芯 褌芯 薪懈 锌芯泻邪蟹胁邪, 械 锌褉芯褋褌芯 懈谢褞蟹懈褟.
鈥淚f he be Mr. Hyde鈥�, he had thought, 鈥淚 shall be Mr. Seek鈥�.
If 鈥淛ekyll and Hyde鈥� was a painting, it would鈥檝e been Edvard Munch鈥檚 鈥淭he Scream鈥�. If it was a mental illness, it would鈥檝e been dissociative identity disorder, not schizophrenia, as is the popular guess if there鈥檚 more than one of you inside your head. I would say that the story can also be likened to a long dark tea-time of the soul, because it would take you just that much to read it. Beware however, for you will ponder it for a long time afterwards and it鈥檒l make your flesh creep.
I suppose it can be argued that in each of us there鈥檚 something we cannot fully explain. It happens to be seen 鈥渋n a bad light鈥�, we 鈥渏ump out of our skin鈥� or we 鈥渁re out of our senses鈥�. Thinking about it, we have a slight obsession for others to perceive us in our good half, or third, or however many sides we imagine that we have. This is probably also related to the prehistoric fear of banishment from the community, which meant certain death due to the lack of mammoth meat for dinner, or the roar of a predatory saber-toothed cat instead of 鈥済ood morning鈥�. The strain to appear more normal than we actually are is one of the curses of mankind. Sometimes the exertion of this exhausts us completely, and we even begin to wonder if there is such a thing as 鈥渘ormality鈥�. The answer, of course, is always 鈥渘o鈥�.
In his Gothic novel, Robert Louis Stevenson carries to excess the good Dr. Jekyll鈥檚 struggle with his inner demons, and thus the blood-chilling Hyde appears. What better metaphor for the guileful human nature than being both the protagonist and the antagonist of one鈥檚 own life. One would have thought that if you cut off the sprout of evil in yourself and throw it away like a weed, it would be some sort of an ending. However, weeds have the annoying propensity to grow under all types of unfavorable conditions, unlike goodness, which, alas, requires quite special care and everlasting nourishment. Mr. Hyde, uprooted and then sprouting, left alone to his own devilish devices, slowly begins to choke his creator. The natural course of everything is towards chaos. Many efforts are needed to harness the chaos in one鈥檚 soul. Denial though only aggravates the situation.
Mr. Hyde is an allegory of the evil which smoulders in each of us. The scientific exorcism practiced by Jekyll eloquently shows the catastrophic consequences when one isn鈥檛 reconciled with all pieces of their own nature and is trying to be something they are not. It also shows that if you try to trick the much needed equilibrium in nature, nothing good is in store for you. I don鈥檛 entirely agree with Sartre, who thinks 鈥渉ell is other people鈥�. Hell is always in our own consciousness. And everything that it shows us is just an illusion.
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鈥淚f he be Mr. Hyde鈥�, he had thought, 鈥淚 shall be Mr. Seek鈥�,
袗泻芯 鈥炐斝缎敌盒感� 懈 啸邪泄写鈥� 斜械褕械 泻邪褉褌懈薪邪, 褖械褕械 写邪 械 鈥炐捫感貉娧傗€� 薪邪 袝写胁邪褉写 袦褍薪泻. 袗泻芯 斜械褕械 蟹邪斜芯谢褟胁邪薪械, 褖械褕械 写邪 械 写懈褋芯褑懈邪褌懈胁薪芯 褉邪蟹褋褌褉芯泄褋褌胁芯 薪邪 谢懈褔薪芯褋褌褌邪, 薪械 褕懈蟹芯褎褉械薪懈褟, 泻邪泻褌芯 械 锌芯锌褍谢褟褉薪芯 写邪 褋械 褋屑褟褌邪, 邪泻芯 褋褌械 锌芯胁械褔械 芯褌 械写懈薪 褌邪屑 薪褟泻褗写械 胁褗褌褉械. 袘懈褏 泻邪蟹邪谢邪, 褔械 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟褌邪 屑芯卸械 写邪 褋械 芯锌褉懈谢懈褔懈 懈 薪邪 写褗谢褗谐, 屑褉邪褔械薪 褋谢械写芯斜械写械薪 褔邪泄 薪邪 写褍褕邪褌邪, 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 斜懈 胁懈 芯褌薪械谢芯 写邪 褟 锌褉芯褔械褌械褌械. 袣芯谢泻芯 胁褉械屑械 褋谢械写 褌芯胁邪 褖械 褋懈 屑懈褋谢懈褌械 蟹邪 薪械褟 懈 褖械 薪邪褋褌褉褗褏胁邪褌械, 械 褋褗胁褋械屑 写褉褍谐 胁褗锌褉芯褋.
袩褉械写锌芯谢邪谐邪屑 屑芯卸械 写邪 褋械 锌芯褋锌芯褉懈, 褔械 胁褗胁 胁褋械泻懈 芯褌 薪邪褋 锌褉械斜懈胁邪胁邪 锌芯 薪械褖芯, 泻芯械褌芯 薪械 屑芯卸械屑 薪邪锌褗谢薪芯 写邪 芯斜褟褋薪懈屑. 小谢褍褔胁邪 褋械 写邪 薪懈 胁懈写褟褌 鈥炐� 谢芯褕邪 褋胁械褌谢懈薪邪鈥�, 鈥炐感沸恍感沸靶夹� 懈蟹胁褗薪 泻芯卸邪褌邪 褋懈鈥� 懈谢懈 鈥炐叫� 褋屑械 薪邪 褋械斜械 褋懈鈥�. 袣邪褌芯 褋械 蟹邪屑懈褋谢褟, 懈屑邪屑械 谢械泻邪 芯斜褋械斜械薪芯褋褌 写褉褍谐懈褌械 写邪 薪懈 胁褗蟹锌褉懈械屑邪褌 芯褌泻褗屑 写芯斜褉邪褌邪 薪懈 锌芯谢芯胁懈薪邪, 褌褉械褌懈薪邪 懈谢懈 泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 褌邪屑 褋褌褉邪薪懈 褋懈 胁褗芯斜褉邪蟹褟胁邪 胁褋械泻懈, 褔械 懈屑邪. 袙械褉芯褟褌薪芯 褌芯胁邪 械 褋胁褗褉蟹邪薪芯 褋 锌褉邪懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈褟 褋褌褉邪褏 芯褌 芯褌谢褗褔胁邪薪械 芯褌 芯斜褖薪芯褋褌褌邪, 泻芯泄褌芯 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪谢 褋懈谐褍褉薪邪 褋屑褗褉褌 锌芯褉邪写懈 谢懈锌褋邪 薪邪 屑邪屑褍褌褋泻芯 屑械褋芯 蟹邪 胁械褔械褉褟 懈谢懈 褉械胁 薪邪 泻褉褗胁芯卸邪写械薪 褋邪斜谢械蟹褗斜 胁屑械褋褌芯 鈥炐葱拘毖€芯 褍褌褉芯鈥�. 袧邪锌褉械卸械薪懈械褌芯 写邪 褋械 锌芯泻邪卸械屑 锌芯-薪芯褉屑邪谢薪懈, 芯褌泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 胁褋褗褖薪芯褋褌 褋屑械, 械 械写薪芯 芯褌 锌褉芯泻谢褟褌懈褟褌邪 薪邪 褔芯胁械褔械褋褌胁芯褌芯. 袩芯薪褟泻芯谐邪 褍褋懈谢懈械褌芯 芯褌 褌芯胁邪 薪懈 懈蟹褑械卸写邪 薪邪锌褗谢薪芯 懈 泻邪褌芯 褑褟谢芯 蟹邪锌芯褔胁邪屑械 写邪 褋械 锌懈褌邪屑械 懈屑邪 谢懈 褌邪泻芯胁邪 薪械褖芯 泻邪褌芯 鈥炐叫狙€屑邪谢薪芯褋褌鈥�. 袨褌谐芯胁芯褉褗褌, 褉邪蟹斜懈褉邪 褋械, 胁懈薪邪谐懈 械 鈥炐叫碘€�.
袙 褋胁芯褟褌邪 谐芯褌懈褔械褋泻邪 薪芯胁械谢邪 袪芯斜褗褉褌 袥褍懈褋 小褌懈胁褗薪褋褗薪 写芯胁械卸写邪 写芯 泻褉邪泄薪芯褋褌 褋褏胁邪褌泻邪褌邪 薪邪 写芯斜褉懈褟 写芯泻褌芯褉 袛卸械泻懈谢 褋 胁褗褌褉械褕薪懈褌械 屑褍 斜械褋芯胁械 懈 褌邪泻邪 褋械 锌芯褟胁褟胁邪 褋屑褉邪蟹褟胁邪褖懈褟褌 泻褉褗胁褌邪 啸邪泄写. 袣邪泻胁邪 锌芯-写芯斜褉邪 屑械褌邪褎芯褉邪 薪邪 谢褍泻邪胁邪褌邪 褔芯胁械褕泻邪 锌褉懈褉芯写邪 芯褌 褌芯胁邪 写邪 褋懈 械写薪芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯 锌褉芯褌邪谐芯薪懈褋褌褗褌 懈 邪薪褌邪谐芯薪懈褋褌褗褌 薪邪 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪懈褟 褋懈 卸懈胁芯褌. 效芯胁械泻 斜懈 锌芯屑懈褋谢懈谢, 褔械 邪泻芯 芯褌泻褗褋薪械褕 懈蟹写褗薪泻邪褌邪 薪邪 蟹谢芯褌芯 褍 褋械斜械 褋懈 懈 褟 蟹邪褏胁褗褉谢懈褕 泻邪褌芯 锌谢械胁械谢, 褌芯胁邪 褖械 械 薪械褖芯 泻邪褌芯 泻褉邪泄. 袩谢械胁械谢懈褌械 芯斜邪褔械 懈屑邪褌 写芯褋邪写薪芯褌芯 褋胁芯泄褋褌胁芯 写邪 褉邪褋褌邪褌 锌褉懈 胁褋褟泻邪泻胁懈 薪械斜谢邪谐芯锌褉懈褟褌薪懈 褍褋谢芯胁懈褟, 蟹邪 褉邪蟹谢懈泻邪 芯褌 写芯斜褉芯褌芯, 薪邪 泻芯械褌芯, 褍胁懈, 屑褍 褌褉褟斜胁邪褌 写芯褋褌邪 褋锌械褑懈邪谢薪懈 谐褉懈卸懈 懈 薪械锌褉械泻褗褋薪邪褌芯 锌芯写褏褉邪薪胁邪薪械. 袚芯褋锌芯写懈薪 啸邪泄写, 懈蟹褌褉褗谐薪邪褌 懈 锌芯褋谢械 锌芯泻褗谢薪邪谢, 芯褋褌邪胁械薪 褋邪屑 薪邪 褋械斜械 褋懈 懈 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪懈褌械 褋懈 写褟胁芯谢褋泻懈 褉邪蟹胁谢械褔械薪懈褟, 斜邪胁薪芯 蟹邪锌芯褔胁邪 写邪 蟹邪写褍褕邪胁邪 褋褗蟹写邪褌械谢褟 褋懈. 袝褋褌械褋褌胁械薪懈褟褌 褏芯写 薪邪 胁褋懈褔泻芯 械 泻褗屑 褏邪芯褋. 袦薪芯谐芯 褍褋懈谢懈褟 褌褉褟斜胁邪褌, 蟹邪 写邪 褋械 芯胁谢邪写械械 褏邪芯褋褗褌 胁 薪械褔懈褟 写褍褕邪. 袨褌褉懈褔邪薪械褌芯 芯斜邪褔械 褋邪屑芯 胁谢芯褕邪胁邪 锌芯谢芯卸械薪懈械褌芯.
袚芯褋锌芯写懈薪 啸邪泄写 械 邪谢械谐芯褉懈褟 薪邪 蟹谢芯褌芯, 泻芯械褌芯 褌谢械械 锌芯 屑邪谢泻芯 胁褗胁 胁褋械泻懈. 袧邪褍褔薪懈褟褌 械泻蟹芯褉褋懈蟹褗屑, 泻芯泄褌芯 锌褉邪泻褌懈泻褍胁邪 袛卸械泻懈谢, 泻褉邪褋薪芯褉械褔懈胁芯 锌芯泻邪蟹胁邪 泻邪褌邪褋褌褉芯褎邪谢薪懈褌械 锌芯褋谢械写懈褑懈, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 薪褟泻芯泄 薪械 褋械 械 锌芯屑懈褉懈谢 褋 胁褋懈褔泻懈 褔邪褋褌懈 薪邪 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪邪褌邪 褋懈 褋褗褖薪芯褋褌 懈 褋械 芯锌懈褌胁邪 写邪 斜褗写械 薪械褖芯, 泻芯械褌芯 薪械 械. 袩芯泻邪蟹胁邪 褋褗褖芯 懈 褔械 邪泻芯 褋械 芯锌懈褌邪褌械 写邪 懈蟹懈谐褉邪械褌械 褉邪胁薪芯胁械褋懈械褌芯, 泻芯械褌芯 械 薪械芯斜褏芯写懈屑芯 胁 锌褉懈褉芯写邪褌邪, 薪械 胁懈 褔邪泻邪 薪懈褖芯 写芯斜褉芯. 袧械 褋褗屑 薪邪锌褗谢薪芯 褋褗谐谢邪褋薪邪 褋褗褋 小邪褉褌褉, 泻芯泄褌芯 褋屑褟褌邪, 褔械 鈥炐靶囱娧� 鈥� 褌芯胁邪 褋邪 写褉褍谐懈褌械鈥�. 袗写褗褌 胁懈薪邪谐懈 械 胁 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪芯褌芯 薪懈 褋褗蟹薪邪薪懈械. 袗 胁褋懈褔泻芯, 泻芯械褌芯 褌芯 薪懈 锌芯泻邪蟹胁邪, 械 锌褉芯褋褌芯 懈谢褞蟹懈褟.
February 28, 2025
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丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿讴鬲乇 噩讴蹖賱 賵 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕蹖丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖賴 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 丕诏乇 禺賵丿卮 乇賵 賳禺賵丕賳丿蹖丿 丕賯鬲亘丕爻蹖 丕夭卮 乇賵 丨鬲賲丕 丿蹖丿蹖丿. 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕 賵 賮蹖賱賲 賴丕 丿乇 爻丕賱 賴丕蹖 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳鬲卮丕乇卮 丕夭 丕蹖丿賴 蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵丕賲 诏乇賮鬲賳丿 賵 亘賴 亘乇乇爻蹖 讴丕乇丕讴鬲乇 倬蹖趩蹖丿賴 蹖 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賳丿. 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿蹖 賲丨鬲乇賲 賵 賲毓賯賵賱 讴賴 亘丕 禺賵乇丿賳 賲毓噩賵賳蹖 亘賴 賲乇丿蹖 亘丿匕丕鬲 賵 亘蹖 賯蹖丿 賵 亘賳丿 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖卮賴 賵 丿乇 賳賴丕蹖鬲 丿乇 噩賳诏 亘蹖賳 丕蹖賳 禺賵亘 賵 亘丿 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇賵 賲蹖 亘丕夭賴. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖賴. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖 丿乇賵賳 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 賲丕 讴賴 亘賴卮 丕噩丕夭賴 蹖 噩賱賵賳 丿丕丿賳 賲蹖丿蹖賲 鬲丕 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 丿蹖诏賴 讴賳鬲乇賱 乇賵 亘賴 丿爻鬲 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 賵 賲乇夭 亘蹖賳 丕蹖賳 賴蹖賵賱丕 賵 賲丕 讴賲乇賳诏 賲蹖卮賴
丕賲丕 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 讴賴 佟伲鄣 爻丕賱 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳鬲卮丕乇卮 亘賴 爻乇丕睾卮 乇賮鬲賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 賲賯丕亘賱賴 禺賵亘 賵 亘丿 匕丕鬲 丕賳爻丕賳 亘賵丿. 賴丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 賲馗賴乇 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿賴. 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿蹖 讴賴 丕讴孬乇 丕賵賯丕鬲 亘丕 鬲氐賵乇 "鬲噩乇亘賴 讴乇丿賳" 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖卮賴 賵 亘毓丿 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘賴 賱匕鬲 賲蹖卮賴. 賱匕鬲蹖 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳蹖 賲蹖 鬲賵賳蹖 讴賳鬲乇賱卮 讴賳蹖 鬲丕 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖鬲 乇賵 賳丕亘賵丿 賲蹖 讴賳賴 賵 禺賵丿鬲 乇賵 丕夭鬲 賲蹖 诏蹖乇賴. 丿讴鬲乇 噩讴蹖賱 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 賴賲蹖賳 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖乇賴 賵 賲毓噩賵賳蹖 丿乇爻鬲 賲蹖 讴賳賴 讴賴 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕蹖賳 鬲噩乇亘賴 蹖 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 乇賵 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賴
亘乇丕賲 噩丕賱亘 亘賵丿 讴賴 丿乇 丕賵賱賷賳 賵丕噩賴賴 亘丕 賴丕蹖丿貙 亘賴 噩丕蹖 鬲乇爻 賵 賳賮乇鬲 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲賵噩賵丿 夭卮鬲 賵 夭賳賳丿賴貙 丨爻 禺賵亘蹖 乇賵 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖 讴賳賴. 丕蹖賳 丨爻 禺賵亘 丕夭 丕蹖賳噩丕 賳卮兀鬲 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 讴賴 賲蹖 鬲賵賳賴 丿乇 賯丕賱亘 賴丕蹖丿 乇賴丕 亘丕卮賴 賵 賴賲賴 蹖 鬲賲丕蹖賱丕鬲蹖 讴賴 丿乇 禺賵丿卮 爻乇讴賵亘 賲蹖 讴乇丿賴 乇賵 丿賳亘丕賱 讴賳賴. 丕卮鬲亘丕賴丕鬲 賴丕蹖丿 賴賲 鬲賵爻胤 禺賵丿 噩讴蹖賱 賯丕亘賱 噩亘乇丕賳 亘賵丿... 鬲丕 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 丿蹖诏賴 賳亘賵丿. 禺賵乇丿賳 賲毓噩賵賳 賵 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賳 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丌賱鬲乇 丕蹖诏賵 丿乇 讴賳鬲乇賱 禺賵丿卮 亘賵丿... 鬲丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丿蹖诏賴 賳亘賵丿 賵 丕蹖賳 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賳丕禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 丕鬲賮丕賯 賲蹖 丕賮鬲丕丿. 丕爻鬲蹖賵賳爻賵賳 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 爻丕丿賴貙 倬乇賵爻賴 倬蹖趩蹖丿賴 蹖 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賳 禺賵丿 丿乇 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴卮蹖丿賴 亘賵丿
亘賴 丕蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱賴 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳賲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 诏匕乇 夭賲丕賳 噩丕賳 爻丕賱賲 亘賴 丿乇 亘乇丿賴. 賴丕蹖丿 賲蹖 鬲賵賳賴 賳蹖賲賴 蹖 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賵噩賵丿貙 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿 蹖丕 丕禺鬲賱丕賱 鬲噩夭蹖賴 賴賵蹖鬲 亘丕卮賴 賵 賴賲趩賳丕賳 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 倬乇 賲毓賳蹖 亘丕賯蹖 亘賲賵賳賴. 噩丿丕蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲爻卅賱賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳賲 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖 賯丿蹖賲蹖 賵丕賯毓丕 丿丕乇賴 亘賴 賲匕丕賯賲 禺賵卮 賲蹖丕丿 賵 賱匕鬲 毓噩蹖亘蹖 亘賴賲 賲蹖丿賴. 丕賳诏丕乇 讴賱賲丕鬲 毓賲蹖賯 鬲乇賴 賵 亘丕乇 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 亘丕 禺賵丿卮 丿丕乇賴
佟鄞赡赡/伲/佟侑
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿讴鬲乇 噩讴蹖賱 賵 丌賯丕蹖 賴丕蹖丿 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖賴 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 丕诏乇 禺賵丿卮 乇賵 賳禺賵丕賳丿蹖丿 丕賯鬲亘丕爻蹖 丕夭卮 乇賵 丨鬲賲丕 丿蹖丿蹖丿. 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕 賵 賮蹖賱賲 賴丕 丿乇 爻丕賱 賴丕蹖 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳鬲卮丕乇卮 丕夭 丕蹖丿賴 蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賵丕賲 诏乇賮鬲賳丿 賵 亘賴 亘乇乇爻蹖 讴丕乇丕讴鬲乇 倬蹖趩蹖丿賴 蹖 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賳丿. 丿丕賳卮賲賳丿蹖 賲丨鬲乇賲 賵 賲毓賯賵賱 讴賴 亘丕 禺賵乇丿賳 賲毓噩賵賳蹖 亘賴 賲乇丿蹖 亘丿匕丕鬲 賵 亘蹖 賯蹖丿 賵 亘賳丿 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賲蹖卮賴 賵 丿乇 賳賴丕蹖鬲 丿乇 噩賳诏 亘蹖賳 丕蹖賳 禺賵亘 賵 亘丿 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇賵 賲蹖 亘丕夭賴. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖賴. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴蹖賵賱丕蹖 丿乇賵賳 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 賲丕 讴賴 亘賴卮 丕噩丕夭賴 蹖 噩賱賵賳 丿丕丿賳 賲蹖丿蹖賲 鬲丕 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 丿蹖诏賴 讴賳鬲乇賱 乇賵 亘賴 丿爻鬲 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 賵 賲乇夭 亘蹖賳 丕蹖賳 賴蹖賵賱丕 賵 賲丕 讴賲乇賳诏 賲蹖卮賴
丕賲丕 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 讴賴 佟伲鄣 爻丕賱 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳鬲卮丕乇卮 亘賴 爻乇丕睾卮 乇賮鬲賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 賲賯丕亘賱賴 禺賵亘 賵 亘丿 匕丕鬲 丕賳爻丕賳 亘賵丿. 賴丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 賲馗賴乇 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿賴. 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿蹖 讴賴 丕讴孬乇 丕賵賯丕鬲 亘丕 鬲氐賵乇 "鬲噩乇亘賴 讴乇丿賳" 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖卮賴 賵 亘毓丿 鬲亘丿蹖賱 亘賴 賱匕鬲 賲蹖卮賴. 賱匕鬲蹖 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳蹖 賲蹖 鬲賵賳蹖 讴賳鬲乇賱卮 讴賳蹖 鬲丕 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖鬲 乇賵 賳丕亘賵丿 賲蹖 讴賳賴 賵 禺賵丿鬲 乇賵 丕夭鬲 賲蹖 诏蹖乇賴. 丿讴鬲乇 噩讴蹖賱 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 賴賲蹖賳 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖乇賴 賵 賲毓噩賵賳蹖 丿乇爻鬲 賲蹖 讴賳賴 讴賴 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕蹖賳 鬲噩乇亘賴 蹖 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲 乇賵 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賴
亘乇丕賲 噩丕賱亘 亘賵丿 讴賴 丿乇 丕賵賱賷賳 賵丕噩賴賴 亘丕 賴丕蹖丿貙 亘賴 噩丕蹖 鬲乇爻 賵 賳賮乇鬲 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲賵噩賵丿 夭卮鬲 賵 夭賳賳丿賴貙 丨爻 禺賵亘蹖 乇賵 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖 讴賳賴. 丕蹖賳 丨爻 禺賵亘 丕夭 丕蹖賳噩丕 賳卮兀鬲 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 讴賴 賲蹖 鬲賵賳賴 丿乇 賯丕賱亘 賴丕蹖丿 乇賴丕 亘丕卮賴 賵 賴賲賴 蹖 鬲賲丕蹖賱丕鬲蹖 讴賴 丿乇 禺賵丿卮 爻乇讴賵亘 賲蹖 讴乇丿賴 乇賵 丿賳亘丕賱 讴賳賴. 丕卮鬲亘丕賴丕鬲 賴丕蹖丿 賴賲 鬲賵爻胤 禺賵丿 噩讴蹖賱 賯丕亘賱 噩亘乇丕賳 亘賵丿... 鬲丕 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 丿蹖诏賴 賳亘賵丿. 禺賵乇丿賳 賲毓噩賵賳 賵 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賳 亘賴 丕蹖賳 丌賱鬲乇 丕蹖诏賵 丿乇 讴賳鬲乇賱 禺賵丿卮 亘賵丿... 鬲丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丿蹖诏賴 賳亘賵丿 賵 丕蹖賳 鬲亘丿蹖賱 賳丕禺賵丿丌诏丕賴 丕鬲賮丕賯 賲蹖 丕賮鬲丕丿. 丕爻鬲蹖賵賳爻賵賳 亘丕 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 爻丕丿賴貙 倬乇賵爻賴 倬蹖趩蹖丿賴 蹖 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賳 禺賵丿 丿乇 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 讴卮蹖丿賴 亘賵丿
亘賴 丕蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱賴 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳賲 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 诏匕乇 夭賲丕賳 噩丕賳 爻丕賱賲 亘賴 丿乇 亘乇丿賴. 賴丕蹖丿 賲蹖 鬲賵賳賴 賳蹖賲賴 蹖 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賵噩賵丿貙 丕毓鬲蹖丕丿 蹖丕 丕禺鬲賱丕賱 鬲噩夭蹖賴 賴賵蹖鬲 亘丕卮賴 賵 賴賲趩賳丕賳 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 倬乇 賲毓賳蹖 亘丕賯蹖 亘賲賵賳賴. 噩丿丕蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賲爻卅賱賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳賲 禺賵丕賳丿賳 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖 賯丿蹖賲蹖 賵丕賯毓丕 丿丕乇賴 亘賴 賲匕丕賯賲 禺賵卮 賲蹖丕丿 賵 賱匕鬲 毓噩蹖亘蹖 亘賴賲 賲蹖丿賴. 丕賳诏丕乇 讴賱賲丕鬲 毓賲蹖賯 鬲乇賴 賵 亘丕乇 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 亘丕 禺賵丿卮 丿丕乇賴
佟鄞赡赡/伲/佟侑
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