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 nature of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A generous and philanthropic man, his is preoccupied with the problems of good and wrong and with the possibility of separating them into two distinct personalities. He develops a drug that transforms him into the blessed 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 frightening murder. His saner self determines to curtail those alternations of personality, but he discoers that he is losing control over his transform ations, that he slips with increasing frequency into the world of evil. Finally, unable to procure unrivaled 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 binds 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 provide 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 any(prenominal) changing state of health. Towards the end of the book her mother passes away departure Mary in grief. Soon afterwards this personal catastrophe, she encounters Mr. Hyde while expression around off side. In this confrontation Mary is bitten on the articulatio humeri 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 relate to each other in this way have their similarities and differences in indisputable areas. Most of the similarities between both books fall in the areas of historical correctness 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 gulp room, he said , and I knew he was displeased and suspicious, for Master never pays much attention to servants, and hardly knows their names, or so it seems, though that may be partly due to how determined Mr. Poole is to keep Master from any bother having to do with the house and what a free rein has over everything that goes on, including who is hired and let go. T his long excerpt says that Poole monopolizes the masters attention, and has influence over the self-coloured 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 make 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