Analysis of Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin Essay -- Mary Reilly Valerie

Analysis of bloody shame Reilly by Valerie Martin The book Mary Reilly is the sequel to the famous The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a stark, ingeniously woven, engaging novel. That tells the disturbing tale of the dual record of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A generous and philanthropic man, his is preoccupied with the problems of good and lousiness and with the possibility of separating them into two distinct personalities. He develops a drug that transforms him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he exhausts all the latent evil in his nature. He also creates an antidote that will restore him into his respectable earthly concern as Dr. Jekyll. Gradually, however, the unmitigated evil of his darker self predominates, until finally he performs an indefinable murder. His saner self determines to curtail those alternations of personality, but he disc eitherplaces that he is losing control all over his transformations, that he slips with increasing frequency into the world of evil. Finally, unable to procure bingle of the ingredients for the mixture of redemption, and on the verge of being discovered, he commits suicide. Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin, is a powerful and moving novel. It manages the story Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and gives a fresh take on the distinguished Dr. Henry Jekyll and the nefarious Mr. Edward Hyde. It is told through the psyche of a Victorian retainer named Mary Reilly. The books structure purports to be Mary Reillys diary. The entries formulate Mary Reillys feelings and experiences while in service for Dr. Henry Jekyll, and how she often empathizes with Dr. Jekyll on his afflictions which she cannot comprehend. As the book progresses Mary Reilly continuously comments on her Masters every changing state of health. Towards the end of the book her mother passes away deviation Mary in grief. Soon by and by this personal catastrophe, she encounter s Mr. Hyde while flavour around step up side. In this confrontation Mary is bitten on the shoulder joint by Hyde and is near death when Hyde abruptly ceases his frenzy. Not long after this the body of Mr. Hyde is found dead in Jekylls laboratory. Naturally two books related to to each other in this way have their similarities and differences in certain(prenominal) areas. Most of the similarities between both books fall in the areas of historical rightness and act... ...g, The next morning I was washing the front steps when Mr. Poole came out the door and spoke to me very coldly. The Master has sent for you to come to the order of payment room, he said , and I knew he was displeased and suspicious, for Master neer pays much attention to servants, and hardly knows their names, or so it seems, though that whitethorn be partly due to how determined Mr. Poole is to keep Master from all bother having to do with the house and what a free rein has over everything that goes on, inc luding who is hired and let go. This long excerpt says that Poole monopolizes the masters attention, and has influence over the only house and every thing in it, except for Master. Mary Reilly explained this sort-of servant dictatorship as if she accepted it, not because she had to, but because she was taught to. This excerpt do me feel badly for Mary Reilly because it showed that Mary was content with her life. This is upsetting to me because I think that Mary had potential to be a successful generator rather then a servant. Each excerpt said a totally different thing about the character Poole. Because of the difference of vote counter in the descriptions how the excerpts were said is not