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El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y el señor Hyde (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) es una novela del escritor británico Robert Luis Stevenson publicada en el año 1886. Es un libro de terror e intriga en el que se pone de manifiesto un debate entre el bien y el mal, así como la dualidad del ser humano.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
1971. Película del Reino Unido, I, Monster. Dirigida por Steven Weeks. Modifica a Jekyll convirtiéndolo en un psicoterapeuta freudiano de 1906. Conserva una cantidad justa del argumento original y del diálogo de Stevenson. 1984. Episodio en serie televisiva estadounidense. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke (1984) dirigido por Michael Caffey.
When Stevenson finally wrote the first manuscript for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he was faced with the strong opposition of his wife, Fanny Stevenson, who “according to the custom then in force, wrote her detailed criticism of the story” (Balfour, 16). As a result, Stevenson burned the draft, deciding to rewrite it again.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Full Book Summary. Previous Next. On their weekly walk, an eminently sensible, trustworthy lawyer named Mr. Utterson listens as his friend Enfield tells a gruesome tale of assault.
Analysis. This chapter is Jekyll ’s "confession." He starts by writing that he had a good start in life, and had all the promise of an honorable future. But he describes one fault of his: a pleasure for darker things which doesn’t fit with his outward honorable reputation, and which he therefore concealed.
Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of many texts in the late-Victorian period that uses the Gothic genre to display Victorian cultural fears. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) employs the theory of atavism to render the central protagonist, Count Dracula himself, all the more terrifying.
