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 fact he was a character whose story bears a strong resemblance to Jekyll/Hyde and has a deep and direct power of innovation in his argument. . Every person who leads a secret life today, from Mel Gibson to Sen. Larry Craig-to Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde will be referenced at some point, but William Brodie was the real deal. During the day Brodie was a respectable business man in the city council, and also a deacon in the Masonry Guild house; During the night he was equally a notorious thief and gambler. Brodie’s ability to protect his face was such that, although he had two wives and five children, none of them knew the truth about the other.
William Brodie was already pushing thirty when Mr. Hyde’s world descended fully into darkness. When he was 27 years old, he was able to make a key model of one of the city’s banks, from which he would withdraw from that bank the equivalent of $4000 of his assets. For almost two decades after this, Brodie led a common life during the day, when he entered into the most corrupt manners of the time in the dark ink of the sunset. It wasn’t until 1886, eighteen years after that first bank robbery, that Brodie’s nocturnal activities were revealed and far more than his honest daytime cloak. Unwittingly, Brodie cast his lot among a few other thieves, who were not nearly as talented in attacking the most serious target ever, the Scots customs and Excise headquarters. As luck would have it, although Brodius himself had successfully escaped, one of his comrades was so destructive. As might be expected, the thief made a full confession, implicating John Brodie.
music rather than the face he knew would come and Celine was particularly hard on the ears. Dion singing the Eminem song-Brodie flees Amsterdam with the hope of one day reaching America. On the very day that Brodie left to sail to the new world, the police finally caught up with him. Mr. Hyde in real life and retired to England. The evidence is even more serious than in the O.J. Simpson’s trial, although justice was applied in this case, Brodie was sentenced to death. Yet Brodio made one last fantastic attempt to overcome the trap; who, having inserted a thread in his clothes from neck to ankle, while at the same time swallowing a pipe, attempted to bring about the fatal plan on the gallows.
It all happened for free, though. The real life of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were hanged for death on October 1, 1788. Almost a hundred years later, a story was published entitled Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life, in which Brodie’s character explains how the neck of an honest man in letting the night and letting the freedom and lust of life which had never happened before. The author of the play was Robert Louis Stevenson. Two years later, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert, stunned by the manuscript she was just reading, threw away the papers. into the fire Working entirely from memory, Stevenson entered the novel and captioned it The New Case of Dr. He restored Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
