Gothic Horror in Literature and Film
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Running head: GOTHIC/ HORROR IN LITERATURE AND FILMGothic/ Horror in Literature and FilmName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1GOTHIC/HORROR IN LITERATURE AND FILM1. Summary sectionIn the book, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as the author of the book Robert Louis Stevensonpresents it to be a piece of horror (Stevenson, Robert Louis). The fact turns out to be the splitpersonality of Dr. Jekyll. He is a physician who had been preparing certain potions and he wrotea letter in which he had confessed he had taken some potions that transformed into the evilmonster named Mr. Hyde. The chief characters in this piece of literature are Mr. Utterson, hisfriend Enfield and Dr. Lanyon. The story tells that Dr. Jekyll had been sociable at times but onthe parallel plot, certain mischievous deaths were taking place that could be attributed to thename of Mr. Hyde. This Mr. Hyde had been very much sinister of a character who used to besomeone who could appear and vanish as he could wish. A strange death had taken place of SirDanvers Carew and this had raised the worries in the minds of Mr. Utterson and Dr. Lanyon. Hisletters disclosed that the evil monster had transformed him to Dr. Hyde from where he could notreturn after trying several times (Stevenson, Robert Louis). Finally this tale had to end by thesuicide of Dr. Jekyll. This suicide was committed as he could not find the chief element toproduce the potion that could transform him to Dr. Jekyll again.2. Response sectionI found this book to be very much exciting to the sens4ees and very much fascinating aswell. The major themes of this story are extremely fantastic like the split personality of a person.In this manner, Dr. Jekyll was unable to decide on which persona he wanted to live. The horrortheme in the Gothic literature has been reflected in a well designed manner. The evil side of Dr.Jekyll presents the dilemma within the man to decide whether he wants to be the good person orthe bad one. This is very much similar to the fact that the man has two natures, one good and the
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