The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is Robert Stevensons most known novel. It was originally published in 1886. The book was psychologically profound, like many of his books, even to the extent that its popularity has been going on for a long time after the death of Stevenson. Stevenson were Scottish writer and he lived 1850-1894.
The main character is of course the honored, friendly and upright Dr. Jekyll who has a lot of friends, one of whom is a lawyer Mr. Utterson whose point of view the story proceeds. D. Jekyll have also a bad side, Mr. hyde, who is just completely the opposite to Mr Hyde. Dr. Jekyll is a vicious and inhuman, and he differs from Mr. Hyde even of the appearance: Jekyll is long and vigorous while the Hyde posture is stooped to fit his personality (at the time it was though that apparance would represent personality). Hyde is result of Jekylls laboratory experimenta which result he was able to release his evil side. Of course something went wrong and Jekyll can not control himself from become Hyde.
We follow the progres of plot through the eyes of Mr. Utterson who gets worried of Jekylls new companionship with Mr. Hyde.
This novella is a classic horror novel of struggle between good and evil in human mind and it leads to many questions of humanity and our tendency of evil.
I enjoyd reading this book. I liked the fact that this was a bit like a horror story but without blood and pieces of bodys all over the places that you cant miss in the current horror storys and movies. Horror was creaded by ambiace and skillfully describing characters and events not with slaughtered humans.
Even though the book is written more than a hundred years ago it is still timeless and modern. I might recommend this book for people who dont mind that text is not easiest to reading becouse of dated language.