In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson delves into the peculiar and personal lives of the reputable characters living during the deeply evolutionary and remarkably oppressive Victorian era (a time not unfamiliar to Stevenson himself). Prior to the 1886 release of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. […]
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Of the three great horrors he wrote-Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde– this is clearly the best of the lot. Perhaps this is because Robert Louis Stevenson was the best writer of the bunch. It has been said that both Dracula and Frankenstein were real-life precursors with varying degrees of success, but in […]
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As my grandfather read the last page of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, “Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment?,” he looked at me. “And that, The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is the story of your ancestor, […]
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After watching a “doctor movie” with friends one night, a discussion began about it, and whether we liked it or not. We then started comparing other movies where at least one of the main characters is a doctor. Some of the movies were made before my time. But, old movies never die, no matter how […]
Eve Harrington Travis Bickle. Joan Crawford. Queen Giddens Ilonzo Harris What do these movie characters have in common? (And yes, when I write Joan Crawford, I mean the movie character.) Don’t be offended if you can’t answer that question; I’ll come back to that later. Before I do that, I first want to make it […]