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Photo by  Derek Anderson, Joel Anderson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde  Quote Analysis Chapter 10 of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : "...m an is not truly one, but truly two."          Through  "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" Stevenson delivers the message that each person alive has two complete opposites inside of him/her. In this novel, the main character Dr Jekyll wants to create an "alter ego" sort of personality because he wanted to separate his "good side" from his "evil side" but also unifying them in the same being. Dr. Jekyll represents the good and noble side, while Mr. Hyde, his "alter ego", represents the evil and monstrous side. He creates a potion and takes it; this allows him to transform into Mr. Hyde. He uses Mr. Hyde to go about life doing horrible things. He fulfills his "evil desires." Dr. Jekyll is able to transform back and forth from Hyde to Jekyll, and vice v...

   Photo by Bruno Brad Barmore  The last line of "Ulysses" by Lord Tennyson “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" Ulysses  is a dramatic monologue reflecting on death and grief. The title of this poem, Ulysses , gives insight that Ulysses never returned home after the fall of Troy. Rather he convinced many of his followers to go out and chase new experiences, like this poem is about. The narrator that we are introduced to tells us as readers that he isn't fit to be a leader. He does what he does for people he doesn't even know, and he sees it as useless. He says he wants to live a life full of different experiences. In line 6, he says that he physically can't rest from travel. He has to keep on moving and seeing new thing. He doesn't want to live a life where he sits around doing nothing. He says later in his poem that his experiences will fade from his memory, but he says he still wants to have experiences. Right before the last line of the p...