Comparing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mary Reilly, and Dr. Jekyl

alliance of queer Gentlemen, Mary Reilly, and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde Robert Louis Stevensons curt novel, The Strange slip-up of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has spawned many retellings of Dr. Jekylls tale, as well as variations on the newspaper. The Jekyll and Hyde conceit is one that lends itself to many different forms of literature, such as intercommunicate pictures and sequential art. Sometimes liberties are taken in reinterpretations of Mr. Hyde from the original text. This mountain be distinguished in two recent works, The League of rattling(prenominal) Gentlemen, a comic book miniseries by Alan Moore and Kevin ONeill, and Mary Reilly, a bring by Stephen Frears. The appearance of Mr. Hyde has always tended towards the stereotypical hairy man. In fact, the variation of Jekyll into Hyde in movies seem like werewolf transformations. This comes from the frequent mention of Hydes men as being of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair (82). Although Hydes face is never describe as hairy, it tends to be a logical assumption that if the hands are hairy, indeed the face may be as well. Jekylls own appearance is described by his lawyer, Utterson, as being a smooth-faced man of liter (44) and Hyde, for all intents and purposes, is the opposite of Jekyll. The hairiness of Hyde is maintained in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Hyde is drawn as a dark brown man with harsh hair all over his arms and chest, whereas Jekyll is a sm... ...er features are in common. Robert Louis Stevenson, in writing The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde touched upon an universal theme that many others would return to in the years after Stevensons novel was published. consequence to Writing Stuff WORKS CITED Mary Reilly. Dir. Stephen Frears. Perf. Julia Roberts and John Malkovich. Columbia/TriStar, 1996. Moore, Alan, and Kevin ONeill. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. One. reprints 1-6 and Bumper Compendiums 2nd Print. La Jolla, California Americas Best Comics, 2000. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Ed. Martin A. Danahay. Orchard Park Broadview Literary Texts, 2000.