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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
As a novella that reminded me of both Frankenstein and The Invisible Man (two sci-fi classics that I got around to reading last year), I enjoyed The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde about as much as the rest of the sci-fi that I've read. I thought it was a fine book, but since sci-fi isn't exactly my genre, this didn't have the impact of some other works that I've read.
It has elements of Frankenstein with the creation of a humanoid monster that starts to cause havoc, but it definitely bears more similarities to The Invisible Man, in which a man performs experiments on himself and then becomes monstrous. In that sense it asks more not about just what separates humans from monsters, but from what is inside us that really makes us that different.
As with the previously mentioned two, I enjoyed the idea of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde more so than I actually did reading it - I like the ideas Stevenson raises about human nature, but because of the work's length, he doesn't mediate on them as much as I'd like, and the novel feels cut short with the reveal at the end. It has some good ideas, but the writing didn't stick out to me, so I feel like this could've been more than it was.
Maybe sci-fi just isn't my genre, or maybe I need to read longer works. Either way, I did enjoy this, I just wish the work had more of an impact on me than it did, and that I'd be able to take away more from it than a few ideas it raised.
It has elements of Frankenstein with the creation of a humanoid monster that starts to cause havoc, but it definitely bears more similarities to The Invisible Man, in which a man performs experiments on himself and then becomes monstrous. In that sense it asks more not about just what separates humans from monsters, but from what is inside us that really makes us that different.
As with the previously mentioned two, I enjoyed the idea of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde more so than I actually did reading it - I like the ideas Stevenson raises about human nature, but because of the work's length, he doesn't mediate on them as much as I'd like, and the novel feels cut short with the reveal at the end. It has some good ideas, but the writing didn't stick out to me, so I feel like this could've been more than it was.
Maybe sci-fi just isn't my genre, or maybe I need to read longer works. Either way, I did enjoy this, I just wish the work had more of an impact on me than it did, and that I'd be able to take away more from it than a few ideas it raised.