the Strange case of Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde

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HAND there is Jekyll's respectable West End ON THE OTHER HAND-D there is Hyde's appalling poverty of the East End slums THIS AMBIVALENCE Dis reinforced by Jekyll's residence ↓ the doctor's official house has a respectable and handsome facade and its interior is expressive of wealth and comfort HIS HOUSE-D however, has a back door used by Hyde which leads to a small yard in a sinister, mysterious block of buildings without any windows. Most scenes of the novel take place at night GOOD VS EVIL THE MAIN THEMED of the novel is the duality of human nature STEVENSON → uses the two character of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to express his idea that every human being is composed of two contrasting sides ↓ THE GOOD AND EVIL Ś which are in perpetual struggle STEVENSON- captured the mood of change of the last decades of the 19th century Dexpressed the moral dichotomy between good and evil in a psychological novel in which hypocrisy is embodied by the double NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE has a multiple-narrative structure with a complex series of points of view They belong to the lawyer Utterson, his relative Mr Enfield, Dr Lanyon, and finally Dr Jekyll himself BOTH UTTERSON AND ENFIELD represent the respectable Victorian world, which Jekyll rejects DR LANYON -D is the first person to see his friend enact his transformation. After witnessing a physically impossible phenomenon, he prefers to die rather than go on living in a world that he thinks has been turned upside down. Finally Jekyll speaks in the first person HIS NARRATIVE AND FINAL D confession take up the last chapter