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, ...
Out of the big three horror novels-Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-the best of the lot is clearly the latter. Perhaps that is because Robert Louis Stevenson was the best writer of the bunch. Claims have been made to tie both Dracula and Frankenstein to real life precursors with varying degrees of success, ...
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. ...
Eve Harrington. Travis Bickle. Joan Crawford. Regina Giddens. Alonzo Harris. What do all these movie characters have in common? (And yes, I do mean movie character when I write Joan Crawford.) Don’t fret if you can’t answer that question; I will return to it later. Before I do that, I first want to make it ...
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 ...
