The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (in English, The Strange Puts off Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ) is a Nouvelle written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in January 1886. It tells the history of a Notaire, Charles Utterson, who inquire into the strange bond between the young person Edward Hyde and his friend, the doctor Henry Jekyll.

Doctor Jekyll, a philanthropist obsessed by his double personality, develops a potion to destroy his bad side, but it is there this side which, night after night, finally will take the top and will transform it into monstrous Mister Hyde.

This work headlight of the literature of terror treats Split personality and expensive subconscious with the Psychanalyse, while being based on a remarkable writing and a very rich intrigue.

History

The news starts with beautiful an afternoon, in front of a door, in London. Between a notary Mr. Utterson and Mr. Richard Enfield. Mr. Enfield explained to his cousin moved away, Mr. Utterson, a history which he had lived during one night London where a man and a young girl had struck themselves. The man had carried on his way, leaving the little girl howling on the pavement, as if it had occurred anything. But the man was intercepted by the police chief and Mr. Enfield to return damage, of hundreds of books (English Currency) to the parents of the child. The man only by seeing it gave cold in the back. The man entered by a door and arose with some gold coins and a signed check of certain Mr. Hyde.

The investigation starts like a kind of curiosity and concern, in spite of the assertions of Jekyll that Hyde does not present any danger. Its point of view changes when Hyde is seen making a wild murder on a respected member of the British Parliament. As Utterson attends the investigation into the crime, Jekyll becomes more and more recluse and dark, while Utterson comes from there to think that the doctor helps Hyde.

Finally, Jekyll is insulated in its laboratory in prey with a disorder that nobody can include/understand. Another friend of Utterson, Lanyon, is brutally dying of a psychic shock on which Jekyll seems dependant. This last leaves a letter has Mr. Utterson where it registered there on the envelope: " to give only to Mr. Utterson but, if this last died, that this letter is burned without being lue." By opening the letter Mr. Utterson discovers another letter where it marked there: " Open only when Doctor Jekyll dies or disparu."

During long weeks the doctor did not accept any more any visitor in his residence and with each test of the notary to see it found closed door. Lastly, the majordomo of Jekyll comes to Utterson to ask of the assistance in order to undertake from abroad who had succeeded in penetrating in the locked laboratory and which would have killed Jekyll. Together, they discover that it is Hyde which is in the part, death, and which Jekyll cannot be found.

To finish, Utterson reads the letters of each one of his/her friends from now on deceased. The first, of Lanyon, reveals that it was the direct witness that Mr. Hyde is not null other than Dr. Jekyll who transformed himself into Hyde by a Potion of his invention.

The other letter is a confession where Jekyll tells its history: how he arrived to a theory which each man has two aspects, good and bad, in him. On this basis, it created a potion which could transform the human one in its dark side, that it named Edward Hyde (pun with the English word hide , which means “hidden”). Soon, it made its change regularly and was devoted to all prohibited antisocial satisfactions with Jekyll. However, the Hyde aspect started to be reinforced and escaped control from Jekyll. After Hyde had become a murderer, Jekyll decided to stop taking drug enabling him to metamorphose itself, but it started again. It ends up committing suicide one evening in the form of Hyde.

Influence and interest

This news became a central concept in the Occidental culture of the internal conflict of the direction of humanity between the good and the evil.

For example within the framework of the analytical Psychology, the share of shade is one of principal the Archétypes described by Carl Gustav Jung within the framework of its analytical Psychologie. It is a " Eternal antagoniste" , which is in the beginning many psychical conflicts, as well interns as external, at the same time as it imposes about being confronted so that it wants to be unaware of itself, and that from this confrontation can be born a form from awakening or destroying influence.

It is also a significant Allégorie on the tendency victorienne with the social Hypocrisie. This history was the film and very significant number object of plays.

Robert Bloch and Andre Norton worked together with a continuation entitled the Heritage of Dr. Jeckyll (I read, 1992).

Jean-Pierre Naugrette took again the character in his novel the strange Crime of Mr. Hyde (1998).

Adaptations

With the cinema

Many film adaptations were carried out on the topic of the duality between Jekyll and Hyde. The last misadventure in date is the fantastic character of Hulk inspired starting from the cartoon of Stan Lee, which took as a starting point itself the novel of Stevenson to create the Dr. Bruce Banner and its colossal always green double of rage. Another misadventure is that of the Bête in the film the Beautiful and Animal carried out by Jean Cocteau.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde also appear in the films the League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen , Richard with the country of the magic books and Van Helsing .

In the songs

  • Serge Gainsbourg: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1966)
  • Philippe Chatel: '' Mister Hyde '' (1978)
  • Jean Leloup: '' Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde '' (1991)
  • Iced Earth: and Hyde '', Horror Show, 2001
  • Renaud: '' Doctor Renaud, Mister Fox '' (2002) (by allusion)
  • Tété: abominable Hyde (2003)
  • brown BB: Mr. Hyde (2007)
  • The Who: Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde (1968)

In the cartoon

On television

  • Jekyll and Hyde telefilm of David Wickes diffused in 1990, with Michael Caine
  • Jekyll - Series created by Steven Moffat in 2007

See too

  • Articles clarifying, duality of the Man:
    • Ombre (psychoanalysis) “the shade is one of principal the Archétypes described by Carl Gustav Jung within the framework of its analytical Psychologie. It is a " Eternal antagoniste" , which is in the beginning many psychical conflicts, as well interns as external, at the same time as it imposes about being confronted so that it wants to be unaware of itself, and that from this confrontation can be born a form from awakening. ”
    • the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Doctor Jekyll, a philanthropist obsessed by his double personality, develops a potion to destroy his bad side, but it is there this side which, night after night, finally will take the top and will transform it into monstrous Mister Hyde.
    • the Beautiful one and the Animal: The Stupid in the film the Beautiful one and the Animal realized by Jean Cocteau.
    • the magic Mirror: The magic Mirror in white snow, which reveals the share " maléfique" but true of the queen but also white snow has which it is carrying " potentiellement" of this cruelty.
    • Hulk : The last misadventure in date is the fantastic character of Hulk inspired starting from the cartoon of Stan Lee, which took as a starting point itself the novel of Stevenson to create the Dr. Bruce Banner and its colossal always green double of rage.
  • Also:
    • List of monsters to the cinema

External bonds

  • the book on Ebooks free and free

  • On the site of the electronic Library of Quebec, the novel of Stevenson: “ the strange Case of Doctor Jekyll ”.

Simple: The Strange Puts off Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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