Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Published: 1886
Rating: 7.5/10
Written during the Victorian Era, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" has only 69 pages, making it a very very short classic. It seems that I have been doing the extremes, I was doing a review for the famously long 422 page Dracula and now the painfully short 69 page "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde".
The plot goes like this: Dr.Jekyll is a well-mannered scientist who consumes a potion of his own making that transforms himself into a morally lacking monster Mr.Hyde. Mr.Hyde has little or maybe no regard for life and among his crimes, tramples on a young girl and murders a MP( Member of Parliament). Soon, Dr.Jekyll transform into Mr.Hyde even without the potion. Larger and larger doses of the potion are required to change Mr.Hyde back into Dr.Jekyll. Towards the end of the story, Dr.Jekyll expresses profound regret for consuming the potion and fears that he may forever be stuck in the form of the cold-blooded Mr.Hyde. The story is told from Mr.Utterson's ( a lawyer and good friend of Dr.Jekyll) point of view.
Sean
7 comments:
RE: Comments on Blog Post #20
Blog Chosen: Sean Heng
Hey, I think your new blogskin rocks! Your book review are also thrilling. However, I don't have time to read so many books! Hope that you will improve on your blog and also your studies in the near future! :)
REGARDS,
Adolf Hitler
(Present-Day Zhou Zhefang)
I believe the above comment falls under the " Wah lau your blog skin is damn nice sia" category. :D
i like your blogskin!! And your book summery is really.......summerised? but i think that you can do better by adding your own comments on the book and its author
Perhaps you can elaborate more on Mr Utterson since it is on his point of view. You have only mentioned his name once in your whole book review and I feel that you can give readers a clearer update on Mr Utterson and his relationship with Dr Jekyll. This will indeed enhance you book review by tons. Just a comment from me, hope you will take it. By the way, nice book reviews you have done.
Jack Tan 1O307
Hello there Sean. Cool blog and skin(I am not talking about your skin, I am talking about your blogskin). By the way, COOL STORY! That seems a but like Science Fiction Classics to me anyway. Classics need not be long to be considered a classic. It just depends on the story itself and if it runs well, it can be published. Mind you, have you heard of the Young Author's Scheme in Singapore? Students of age 8 to 15 get to write a book each in this workshop and if they do well enough, their book will be published into the public. Yes! The public! Now, that's some way you can make easy money! He he. $v$.
Good work Sean!!! Thought you of all the people would have more to say on the book!!! Wake up the critique in you Maan!!! Why do you like the book? Do you find that you are lured by books that are a touch gothic in nature? Which character in the book hold your attention etc...
Thank you for all the comments! I will try to add the points mentioned above to my posts! Thanks!
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