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Feb 26, 2022
Maggie
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Given that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is so commonly used to comment on people who appear to have wild mood swings, I figured I knew this story. But it was so much more complex, which is quite the feat for such a short book. Is he mentally ill? Addicted? Or is it a more thorough examination of mankind's morality? Are we mostly good, with a touch of evil or vice versa?
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The afterward is particularly good in creating a starting point for a dialog about this book. The language tires me, but that is often the case with books written in the 1800s. Well worth the investment of an afternoon to read this classic.
“…I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
“…I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.”
I don't think I'd ever read this before, but it's surprisingly good. It's odd reading it, knowing exactly what's happening, even though the narrator has no idea. I hadn't realised that in the end, the way they find out what was going on, was a deathbed confession - it reminds me quite a bit of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner in that regard. Glad I finally read it.
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Dec 29, 2009
Libscigrl
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Cora
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Oct 12, 2015
Jeanne
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