Kind : Science Fiction
Landscape :
A little street in London, a big house with a laboratory. A lot of sceneries behind the doors, nearly none outside.
The story :
Mr Utterson, a notary, has a walk in London with a friend. They walk near a strange black door, and the notary tells his friend the story of who was inhabitting behind this door, the Dr Jeckyll.
 It was a Doctor specialised in medecine, Rights, a member of the Science Royal academy, who gained a certain notoriety.
During his work, he discovered that some crystals are able to make the human's black side materialise in a kind of malefic entity. Trying that on himself, the good Dr Jekyll turns into the bad Mr Hyde, who steal, cheat, and so on.
There is next a hide-and-seek-game between Mr Hyde and the policemen. The Dr Jekyll, once in the Dr Hyde shoes feels free like he never was in his life and begins to appreciate this life where he can break all the rules.
Then, the Dr Jekyll become weaker and weaker to escape from Dr Jekyll, and he understand that he will no longer be able to produce the strange crystalls allowing the transformation, because the strange event the transformation-was due to a mistake in chemical manipulations.
The only solution for him to escape to Mr Hyde is to die, so does he.
The topics :
- The dualism of human beings : Half angels, half demons
- The fight to stay on the good side
- God punishes human who try to take his place in changing the human Nature by Science
- The hideous aspect of Dr Hyde symbolises the Evil, the bad side, the Beast
Context :
Stevenson founded the idea for this book in a nightmare !!
Of course, we can draw a parallel between the chemical side of this story and the Industrial Revolution, that happened at that period...
Comments :
The intrigue rythm is flat, monotomn. In fact, this story could have been told only with the first and the last chapter, the most interesting one, where the Doctor gives his point of view on this strange experience.
The other chapters are more like a crime story , not SF or fantastic, and I am not very found of this style. Moreover, as we all know what this story is about ( a worldwide myth ) , there is no surprise when you read it, and it's a pity....By chance, the book is not very thick... | |
It was a Doctor specialised in medecine, Rights, a member of the Science Royal academy, who gained a certain notoriety.
During his work, he discovered that some crystals are able to make the human's black side materialise in a kind of malefic entity. Trying that on himself, the good Dr Jekyll turns into the bad Mr Hyde, who steal, cheat, and so on.
There is next a hide-and-seek-game between Mr Hyde and the policemen. The Dr Jekyll, once in the Dr Hyde shoes feels free like he never was in his life and begins to appreciate this life where he can break all the rules.
Then, the Dr Jekyll become weaker and weaker to escape from Dr Jekyll, and he understand that he will no longer be able to produce the strange crystalls allowing the transformation, because the strange event the transformation-was due to a mistake in chemical manipulations.
The only solution for him to escape to Mr Hyde is to die, so does he.
The topics :
- The dualism of human beings : Half angels, half demons
- The fight to stay on the good side
- God punishes human who try to take his place in changing the human Nature by Science
- The hideous aspect of Dr Hyde symbolises the Evil, the bad side, the Beast
Context :
Stevenson founded the idea for this book in a nightmare !!
Of course, we can draw a parallel between the chemical side of this story and the Industrial Revolution, that happened at that period...
Comments :
The intrigue rythm is flat, monotomn. In fact, this story could have been told only with the first and the last chapter, the most interesting one, where the Doctor gives his point of view on this strange experience.
The other chapters are more like a crime story , not SF or fantastic, and I am not very found of this style. Moreover, as we all know what this story is about ( a worldwide myth ) , there is no surprise when you read it, and it's a pity....By chance, the book is not very thick...
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