The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]
Year: 
1886
Type: 
Public: 
Tags: 
Year of publication: 
2016
Pages: 
104
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Dr Jekyll is fascinated by the good and evil in the nature of man and he wondered if he could give each its own personality. The doctor discovered the way to do so, and got to work separating his own evil instincts from his own personality. He would assume the persona of Mr Hyde occasionally until he starts to take over his whole nature bit by bit. Dr Jekyll finds harder and harder to revert back the evil efect.

Robert Luis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh and died in 1894, at the age of 44 after a life of constant ill health. He studied law and traveled the world in search of better surroundings for his poor health. This is a masterly short novel that successfully married crime with horror, and has been widely popular since publication.