Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Identifying Theme, Drawing Conclusions about Literature, and Paraphrasing Research Quotations

Paraphrasing Research Quotations Literature Criticism Source (paraphrase of a quotation) Paraphrase - a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else / to express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity of meaning Paraphrase the original quote from the literature criticism “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Anatomy of Misperception, ” by Daniel V. Fraustino. Include an in- text citation after your restatement of the literary critic’s viewpoint on the novel.

Literature Criticism Source: Daniel V. Fraustino, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Anatomy of Misperception, ” in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, Autumn 1982, pp. 235–40. Quotation: “Perhaps Stevenson suggests that, unlike his early ancestors, modern man suffers from an ever-widening split in his consciousness, and we are all Lanyons, Uttersons, and Jekylls who have repressed, alienated, or otherwise estranged the Hyde within us—acts which doom us to inhabit the outskirts of reality as well as those of our own personalities. However, even this seems too optimistic for those of us who regard Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Stevenson's dim statement on man's perpetual unfitness for life. An artist by nature, man is chiefly an imaginative animal who will always filter his experience through his symbols, impotently manipulating these out of a primitive impulse to control, perceiving structure where there is only the illusion of structure, and meaning where there is only fact” (Fraustino 240 ).

How to Paraphrase: 8 lines of text = 8 lines of writing You do not need to try to paraphrase EVERY word. You may not be able to find a substitute for EVERY word. Citation needed at the end (Fraustino 240); this information is NOT common knowledge and therefore credit needs to be given to the author. USE A THESAURUS