The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a mystery novel written
by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in London in
1886.
This
short novel is well-known for describing the struggle between good and evil
forces inside a human being. It tells the story of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a
respected doctor of medicine, who believes that man has both good and evil
sides. Dr. Jekyll experiments with a variety of potions in order to separate
the two different sides, and drinks the final
drug himself. The experiment fails, and Dr. Jekyll is transformed into his evil
self, Mr. Edward Hyde, a violent man who commits terrible crimes in London.
This evil character becomes stronger and stronger until finally close friends
of Dr. Jekyll break into his laboratory and find Mr. Hyde dead and Dr. Jekyll’s
hand-written notes describing the whole experiment from the very beginning.
Several
movies and theatre plays based on Stevenson’s novel have been produced, making it one of the most famous
mystery stories ever written.
