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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

This novel was written by Robert Louis Stevenson. He was born on November thirteenth, 1850 and died on December third 1894.He was a famous Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer and he has great influence on English literature.

This novel mainly describe a famous and intelligent physician who turns into a evil man after taking a drug , intended to separate evil from good in a personality . Dr. Jekyll is the main character of this novel .he is known as an acknowledgeable and respectable man in London. Lots of people thought that Dr. Jekyll is nearly a perfect man for what he dose good deeds and cures the pain of his patient. He owned the good fame for what good deeds he has done. But in his inner heart he always feels tired of what role he has acted as .He wants to change himself ,so he does something evil to set free himself .he dreams to do evil things to make himself feel comfortable.

To be another man is the crazy dream for Jekyll .so he mixes some drugs and powder together to make new drugs. After taking this new medicine he becomes an ugly, small and deformed man named Mr. Hyde.Being an evil man, he can does some evil things, where as Hyde was still young and energetic .so he begins his life of evil. During this time, Hyde was looked on as a blackmailer even a murder .he could not get rid of the police who are searing for him

everywhere. So he was forced to be Jekyll again.

For he takes much medicine, he always changes himself between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .Finally ,his strong desire to do evil things controls himself mostly. he can change himself to be Hyde naturally and unconsciously, which makes him suffered too much .some times he nearly becomes evil Hyde when he talked with friend Utterson and his mails there was a time when two-ness of men .he wished deeply to separate these two men of good and evil inside him.

Utterson is a good friend of Mr. Jekyll, he is curious about what he heard from Richard. So he spends lots of time in collect information about Jekyll and Hyde .this is a long time for him .After both Jekyll and Lanyon died, Utterson read the two letters written by Jekyll and Lanyon .Finally Utterson knows well about the complex things of his two friends .he knows the evil things Jekyll have done and the true feelings of Jekyll. He knows the surprising thing that Lanyon have saw.

The secret and complicated things become bright for Utterson .however; he could do nothing but keep up the good fame for his good friend.

After reading this novel, I feel very shock about what Jekyll have done and though. He has good fame and good social position