First chapter of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' is a novella, a short novel, which was published in the Victorian era. It has a gothic mystery story genre and has a mysterious and serious tone. The overall story is set in London. This essay will analyze how the author captures the reader's interest and introduces key ideas in chapter 1 of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." This essay will evaluate how the author, RobertLouis Stevenson, uses different language, how R.L. Stevenson uses imagery, structure and form, and settings to capture the reader's interest. The key ideas in chapter 1 of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" are: duality of human nature, beast in man, and reputation. When The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written it was believed that people had two different personalities, or also known as Doppelgängers. This falls under the section of the duality of human nature. Reputation was important to people because if someone lost it they would have difficulty getting it back. R.L. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and had a sickly childhood. He was an only child and his parents hoped for great things from him. Stevenson traveled extensively in his life and was often ill. In 1885 Stevenson wrote "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", but it was not published until January 1886. This essay will first deal with how R.L. Stevenson captured the reader's interest by using literary devices, language, images, structure and form, and setting. The language section will look at mood, sentence structure, metaphors, similes, and personification. The image section covers patterns, symbols and Victoria… in the center of the paper… own and often printed,” and as you will discover last in the story, this was Jekyll’s name on the check. This would make the reader want to read, to see how Hyde got this check with another man's name on it. This title of the essay was answered by first covering the literary devices used in chapter 1 of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", these literary devices were the language, images, setting, structure and the shape. The second part of this essay covered the key ideas introduced in chapter 1; the key ideas used were the duality of human nature, reputation and the beast in man. This is a great novella with a fantastic twist at the end, but the problem for the modern reader is that because this novella is so well known, they cannot read it as a mystery, since they already know that Jekilland Hyde is the same person. It is a mysterious story that is no longer a mystery.