The Curious Case of Jekyll and Hyde

The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

I have chosen this book and I liked the idea of two different characters that are just completely different sides of one man. I have heard a few things from the book before reading it and when I was younger went on a scare tour on Halloween which was based on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, it was in Croxeth Hall in Liverpool and was basically a tour around the grounds and the estate which explained the story and had actors enact it and scare you. I thought the book was really interesting were it starts from a different character (Mr Utterson) view on the story and then starts the story again from Dr Jekyll's view. My chosen character is the combination on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, why I have chosen to do this is because I found it difficult to just choose one of them I have good ideas for both of them and think it would work to combine them both. Dr Jekyll is an older man, kind, respectful, religious where as Mr Hyde is a dwarfish, young, deformed, evil looking man. I would definitely recommend the book to anyone who is interested in reading any Gothic Horror as it is really interesting dark story about split personality. When reading the book I found it quite difficult to read as it is in 'Old English' and took me a while to get use to it and interoperate some of the language. I felt like I was taken back to that time reading the book with the old English and with the atmosphere the book gave off with its description. I have read Frankenstein before and also found that hard to read but it never really appealed to me as much as this book did, as this book is technically about a now a days bipolar diagnosed people except for the total look transformation and extreme evil personality. 

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[1] Arthur Batut, n.d. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [digital image] [27/01/16]. Available from: https://files.list.co.uk/images/2005/01/01/jekyl-hyde_stevenson.jpg

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 1886. The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. PENGUIN CLASSICS . Place of publication: Penguin Classics (not original publication)