Authors Note: in the short story "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson each door symbolizes change from when enetered or exited. Weather if it is from personality, appearance, or spiritual, everytime someone walks through a door in the story, something changes.
She was on her everyday schedule, getting coffee, driving to work, then coming home to workout and relax. She had moved on from her past into a new, better, rich lifestyle from what she was haunted and raised in, throwing everything to the back of her head. She was beautiful, well saturated with goods and luxery. She went from rags to riches and god forbid she would remenice. The door flew open at her like a brick wall. Being dragged against her will into the darkness yet once again was what she dreaded, through that one dark, demolished lifestyle. Here she was nothing, worthless. She sat there sobbing in the cold cement room as anger flooded throughout her body. Everything she had ever worked, dreamed, and pleaded for was ripped out from underneath her in a heart beat. In all hope she prayed to see that beautiful door again. she would kill for it. The one back to her heaven. But for now she sat in hell. While her memories of luxery and peace ate away at her day to day. A week later she saw her door again. behind one of the walls she tried to reach and open it. her fingertips were just one inch from the knob, she was just one inch from relief. The more she tried the farther she got. She was on cloud eight, desperation to get to cloud nine. And there she sat, on cloud eight, for the rest of her life.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Temptation
Author's Note: In the first three chapters of Jekyll and Hyde, I noticed that the motif or idea that there is an evil inside of everyone showed up. Jekyll was a nice man who everyone in the city liked but at night his evil side, Hyde, came out. Although some people don't like or want their evil side, everyone has it. This is a poem of the temptations of evil, and resistance to it.
Intoxicated and blessed with love, innocence, and good environment
she was different. She had a twist.
Whispers haunted her at night. Sitting on her right shoulder, the temptation was there.
The whispers of the voice on her left shoulder soon started to fade as the right grew louder and louder.
She fell through, doing the un spoken.
But yet this burden satisfied her in such a displeasing manner.
Although tearing her apart, she still fed the demon.
She fed it to the point where she was turning into the demon, to the point where it had taken over.
Still having hope, she reached out for her left conciousness,
who was devestatingly not there.
Falling into the temptation,
she was now his.
Jekyll's Drug
We all know that drugs are very dangerous, harmful and life threatening. The question is, why do people use these harmful substances if it is garunteed to ruin your life? that temporary high you get is enough to feed the craving until it ultimatly destroys you. Weather the drug is mental, or physical we all have those quilty pleasures and weaknesses. This much relates to the character Hyde from the book Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenon. Jekyll being a well mannered man, clean cut, and sophiticated doctor noticed another side of him, a demonic violent figure. Afraid of this side, he still yet decided to bring it out fully. Once it was realized that he was masked with another body (Hyde), Jekyll found the pleasure of doing these satan like acts and getting away with it and still maintaining his other sophisticated persona. Much like a drug, hyde soon takes over, scaring Jekyll and forcing the decision of to keep feeding this demon, or killing it by ultimatly killing himself. Unfortunatly the only way to kill Hyde is to kill himself. So just like drugs, everything strated to crumble before him when it was too late to make a stop to the killing source.