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This 12 page paper analyzes both Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde as well as George Eliot's Middlemarch for narrative style. Quotations and examples given from text. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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were able to place the needs and well being of their fellow man above their own, won peace and happiness. Likewise, the narrative structure that Robert Louis Stevenson employed in
his classic tale, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, explored similar concepts concerning good and evil. As such, these binary oppositions (good and evil) are epitomized in both authors works through
the use of characterization and as such are successful in what they set out to attempt because of their choice of narrative structure. Early on in Middlemarch the dichotomies
are presented in the characters of Lyndgate and Dorothea (Alexander 40). Lyndgate is a doctor, but not just any doctor. He is a new kind of doctor. When he first
blows into town he has visions of grandeur, which include building a new hospital to service the poor of the city. Most of the professionals view him with much suspicion.
Until this time in history, it must be stated, that most doctors were self taught and did not attend universities. Lyndgate, it would seem, was the symbol of the new
emerging physician, capable of performing most of the general practitioners duties as well as perform surgeries. However, as philanthropic as Lyndgate sounds, his true colors would seem to be
shown in his marriage to Rosamond. She is from a very wealthy family and insists that Lyndgate keep her in a manner to which she has become accustomed. The reader
has a very hard time feeling any sympathy for Lyndgate, however, because of various statements that he makes. In fact, in a purely insulting way he compares women to geese:
"the innate submissiveness of the goose as beautifully corresponding to the strength of the gander" (Eliot, 356). Lyndgates attitude toward women is appalling. Lydgates views of women become apparent when,
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