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    Both Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore themes of exceeding natural limits and the double. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates life in an unnatural way and is punished as his creation kills his loved ones. The story also features doubles in Frankenstein and the monster sharing ambitions. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll creates a potion to separate his good and evil sides, but his evil persona of Mr. Hyde takes over, leaving no good choice but to eliminate Hyde. Both works serve as warnings about overreaching one's bounds and the dangers of isolating oneself from friendship.

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    Both Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore themes of exceeding natural limits and the double. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates life in an unnatural way and is punished as his creation kills his loved ones. The story also features doubles in Frankenstein and the monster sharing ambitions. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll creates a potion to separate his good and evil sides, but his evil persona of Mr. Hyde takes over, leaving no good choice but to eliminate Hyde. Both works serve as warnings about overreaching one's bounds and the dangers of isolating oneself from friendship.

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    Both Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore themes of exceeding natural limits and the double. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates life in an unnatural way and is punished as his creation kills his loved ones. The story also features doubles in Frankenstein and the monster sharing ambitions. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll creates a potion to separate his good and evil sides, but his evil persona of Mr. Hyde takes over, leaving no good choice but to eliminate Hyde. Both works serve as warnings about overreaching one's bounds and the dangers of isolating oneself from friendship.

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    Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll

    From the comparison between the novel by Stevenson and the novel by Mary Shelley we noticed
    some important analogies. One of these regards the theme of the limits of Nature. Walton’s only aim
    in life is to travel towards the unknown; Frankenstein has the ambition of distinguishing himself in
    science and so he creates a living being by joining parts selected from corpses without respecting
    the rules of Nature; Dr Jekyll creates a potion able to release his evil side, Mr Hyde. But at the end
    everyone is punished: Walton’s expedition fails; Frankenstein remains lonely, the monster kills his
    friend and his wife and at the end also Victor dies; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are in perpetual struggle,
    but once Hyde is released from hiding, he achieves domination over the Jekyll aspects so the
    individual has only two choices, on the one hand the man may choose a life of crime and depravity,
    on the other hand the Jekyll aspect must eliminate Hyde in the only way left, by killing him.
    In these cases we noticed an analogy with the myth of Prometheus: in the Greek mythology he was
    a giant who stole the fire from Gods in order to give it to men; in so doing, he challenged the divine
    authority and freed men from Gods’ power. He is a clear example of an overreacher, just like the
    previous characters.
    Another important theme is the double. In Frankenstein the three main characters are linked by that
    idea: in fact both Walton and Frankenstein have the same ambitions, the wish to go beyond the
    limits of Nature travelling towards the unknown, the wish for loneliness and pride of being
    different; the monster is Frankenstein’s negative side, they are complementary, initially they are
    both good but then they become obsessed with hate and revenge. One sure sign of the double is the
    haunting presence of the monster: although at the beginning Frankenstein flees from his creature
    and their direct confrontations are few, the monster is always present in Victor’s life. But
    Frankenstein rejection of his creature is crucial and this makes the monster an outcast, a murderer
    and a rebel against society. In the other novel, the theme of the double is more evident: in fact it is
    the portrayal of “good” and “evil” and its main characters are the stereotypes of people who are
    “good” and “evil”. As Jekyll has lived a virtuous life, his face is handsome, his body more
    harmoniously proportioned than Hyde’s. Since Hyde is pure hate and evil, he is pale and dwarfish,
    he gives the impression of deformity. Though the evil side of Jekyll’s nature is initially less
    developed, Hyde gradually spoils his good twin: Hyde begins to grow in stature and the original
    balance of good and evil in Jekyll’s nature is threatened with being permanently overthrown.
    Another analogy regards the theme of friendship. The monster’s only desires are love and
    fellowship, he is initially good, but he is ugly and revolting and nobody loves and admires him: so
    his unsatisfied need of love becomes hate and desire of revenge. Also Dr Frankenstein at the
    beginning is so eager to go beyond his limits, is so eager to find out the secret of life, that he refuses
    friendship and love with the only desire to be left alone in his research; but at the end he will be
    punished: his friend and his wife will be killed by his own creature.
    The same desire for solitude is the one which leads Dr Jekyll to refuse the company and the help of
    his friends.

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