![]() Hyde has been in continual publication for over 120 years. But people forget that this novel was written as a " shilling shocker." Popular during the Victorian era (the mid-1800s to about 1900), shilling shockers were short, graphic, and inexpensive books eagerly consumed by the masses-like those cheap romance novels you find in the supermarket.īut the real (shilling) shocker is that this piece of pulp fiction has remained totally famous and totally respectable. Hyde was published in 1886 and was instrumental in launching the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, to literary fame. if he lived in a world without consequences. Hyde clearly represents the person that Dr. Ultimately, he loves badness so much that Mr. Hyde so he can have both the respectable lifestyle he's become accustomed to and be a total degenerate in his off hours. Jekyll is hardly the kind of TV doctor with a megawatt smile we'd like to think he is. People tend to think of this novel as a pretty clear case of split personality. Hyde , a book whose title has become synonymous with the battle between Big Bad and Big Good. So of course we all like Strange Case of Dr. The Hunger Games has the regular Joes/Katnisses of the world (huzzah!) persecuted by a bunch of sadistic richy McRichersons with questionable taste in cosmetics (blergh). (woo-hoo!) against Sauron and his creepy horseback-riding zombie lords (hiss!). ![]() Star Wars has the Empire (boo!) and the Rebel Alliance (yay!). ![]() We live in a world that lurves a good good vs. ![]()
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