The two hold ups I have chosen for my open select are: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The first one, pen in 1890 by Oscar Wilde, is the point of a young, aristocratic sheikh who, influenced by a friend, becomes a hedonistic, selfish man who ends in tragedy. The insurgent, compose in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson, is the story of a scientist, Dr. Jekyll, who, to a lower place the effect of a potion, mutates into a terrifying monster all(prenominal) night, killing whoever doesn?t please him.
Choosing the books was not a unvoiced task for me: ?The Picture of Dorian Gray? is a book I read last year, and took great pleasure in reading, but I felt as if I didn?t get some of the messages and ideas of the novel. This is why I thought that choosing it for my seek could help me understand it better. I indeed thought of choosing the second book based on the features of the first: I cute a book written in the identical style, of the same genre, in the same period of time and with a homogeneous plot. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fitted perfectly.
These two books link and differ in various ways.
As I have said, they are particularly similar in style of writing and period setting, as they were both written and are set towards the end of the 19th century, but then differ a great deal in sociable aspect and characters. Dorian Gray is an aristocratic young gentleman, with bask and friends whilst Henry Jekyll is a reserved, middle-class scientist. The genres can be considered similar and different at the same time. The two books are actually both of the horror and mystery genre but the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is...
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