Dr Jekyll

sTara Stockage Mr. Robinson Dorian gray-haired and Jekyll Hyde Comparison taste A March 22, 2013 Comparative Essay The Picture of Dorian fair-haired(a) and The Strange strip of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two written during the same succession period which request place in the 1800s which is the Victorian era. Both stories take place in London. These novels both are written in regards to the medieval style of writing. The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde vs. The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novels, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde written by author Robert Louis Stevenson and, The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde, share the theme of contrast of human nature and personality. One of the aspects that both Stevensons The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray buzz off in common is the contrast of human nature. Just as Jekyll claims that man is not sincerely yours one, that truly two, Dorian proposes that Each of u s has Heaven and Hell in him. In both stories the characters have a way of overlooking the evidence of their own mistakes.Jekyll calms himself by thinking that It was Hyde . . . and Hyde alone that was offensey and by this he was trying to stipulate the wrongs that Hyde committed. Dorian on the other hand attempted to apologize to Sibyl by writing her a letter after which made him feel as if he was forgiven. Shortly after finishing the letter he engage about Sibyls death and overlooks the first changes that his painting goes through and blocks the guilt by thinking What did it matter what happened to the colored image on the canvass?He would be safe. That was everything Dorian says these words to help him escape the unequivocal truth. The internal conflict of Stevensons Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde excessively can be compared to Oscar Wildes The picture of Dorian Gray. Both Mr. Jekyll and Gray go through many an(prenominal) experiences that lead them to bear a double life. Jekyll i s curious scientist who drinks a potion that shits him hitch into a vulgar and tempered man. Jekyll likes the idea of becoming someone else, without anybody truly erudite who Mr. Hyde is.Dorian Gray is a curious and young gentleman who also falls victim to his hope to stay young forever, without anybody really knowing what his true practice is. When we compare both Dorian Gray and Jekyll it is grave to say that they both are seen as normal kind cheeseparing man that both have a dark secret. As cosmos Mr. Hyde, Jekyll feels like he has more freedom to do whatever he wants without being caught as his real self. Both Gray and Jekyll desire to live a life of freedom from discrimination and act towards any wish, but in the end it brings trouble to both because they are hurting bulk at the same time.Another comparison of these characters is that throughout their experiences, they finally come to hurt with their mistakes and the basis to the problem. They both ended their life in t heir own terms, by killing the monster that they had become. Gray killed himself by ultimately slaying his personation that represented the horror and real person that he had become, while Jekyll poisoned himself. I believe in the end they did have sympathy for the horrible things that they had committed, and that is wherefore they killed themselves. Killing themselves, relived them from what they had to live with for the rest of their lives.I feel that the authors of the novels chose to describe the charters this way to have a certain impact of the audience. I believe the authors wanted to make the readers see both sides of the character through a different gather in point. Also I believe they also wrote it because the authors were describing the person they wish they could be. I believe both authors believe that human nature is always changing. I think that the artist are saying that during their time period cognise and the Victorian era the human nature of people were always changing .