Welcome to The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde walkthrough on Gamezebo. The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an Hidden Object game played on PC, created by joindots and Ocean Media, and available at BigFish Games. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful Potions, and a strategy guide for how to complete The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Full title : The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
author : Robert Louis Stevenson
type of work : Novel
genre : Gothic mystery story
language : English
time and place written : 1885, Bournemouth, England
date of first publication : January 1886
publisher : Longmans, Green and Co.
Plot :
The story is told through the eyes of a man of reason. He is lawyer named Utterson and at the beginning of the novella, he is worried for his friend, Henry Jekyll a violent and odious man who is living in Jekyll's house. Despite Utterson's attempts to speak to his friend, Jekyll completely avoids the subject.
In the later part of the novel, Jekyll locks himself in his laboratory. Utterson is afraid for his friend, so he breaks down the door to save him. Upon entering the laboratory, he finds Hyde--killed by his own hand. A letter made out in the hand of Jekyll explains that the doctor had created a potion that divided the two sides of a man's character--the good in him from the bad--allowing a man to transform between the two. Hyde was the manifestation of Jekyll's evil side.
At first Jekyll found the transformation liberating: he was able to live out a life of licentiousness and sin without any danger. However, he soon found that Hyde was taking over. Jekyll was unable to control the process of transformation, and he was certain that he would become Hyde forever, so he killed himself.
Despite using a number of the aspects of the Gothic tradition that had become popular in the nineteenth century through writers such as Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson gives his "monster" a thoroughly modern twist. Although a reader of Jekyll and Hyde is led to believe that the threat of evil comes--as in earlier Gothic stories--from without, it is actually within the breast of the good and kind Jekyll that the danger lurks. The evil within him eventually leads to his destruction. Weaving in the aspects of science with the sudden revelatory twist that comes in the form of a letter from Jekyll's own hand, Robert Louise Stevenson confounds readers' expectations and forces them to reconsider the meaning of what it is to be evil.
What's more, The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (which is written to a certain extent like a scientific investigation on the part of Utterson into his friends strange behavior) provides a skeptical view of scientific advances, and the limits of rationality. Taking up a thread from classical myth, Stevenson presents Jekyll as an Icarus-like figure who strives to become great and, in doing so, falls to the lowest depths of inhumanity. He is the image--not unlike that of Dr. Frankenstein (from Mary Shelley's novel)--of the man of science who, in attempting to discover more about the world and its inhabitants, becomes a prisoner of his own accomplishment.
More than anything, however, Jekyll and Hyde works as an allegorical portrayal of the goodness and evil that resides in equal measure within the soul of a man. It pre-empted Freudian psychoanalysis (which really only began to be common currency on the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1901) by twenty-five years, and yet is eerily similar to some of its theories.
Under the constraints of rigid Victorian society, the unprepossessing Jekyll learns to give into his inner desires (the instinctive forces Freud termed the Id) when he is transformed into Hyde. The rational, controlled, civilised part of Jekyll attempts to (like Freud's super-ego) repress the Id, and make Hyde controllable. However, as Freud pointed out in his studies of neurotic patients, such a repression of the driving force of nature within us often leads to horrible, barbaric consequences.
Both an exciting horror story, and a perceptive allegorical portrayal of what it is to be human, The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, works on its readers on a number of levels. Insightful, well-written, and extremely enjoyable, it is a story that chimes so with our collective consciousness, that it has entered into legend.
General Information:
1 Click Play to start your journey
2 Create, Rename or Delete profiles from the Player Profile menu
3 Read the progress of the story from the Story So Far…menu. Click on the arrows at the right or left to turn pages; click on the arrows at the bottom corners to move to specific chapters.
4 Adjust Sound and Music volumes, turn Custom Cursors and Full Screen on and off and view the Credits from the Options menu
5 Replay completed Minigames and Puzzles from the Puzzles menu
6 Quit the game by clicking Exit
7 When restarting the game, click Play then Yes to resume your previous game, or No to start a new game.
* You get 5 Hints to use, in the form of Potion Bottles. An additional Potion Bottle will appear in the next scene unless you still have 4 or 5. In that case, you won’t see a one; you can only have 5 at a time.
* Item Lists consist of 20 items in a scrolling list. As you find an item, another is added. The list is different each time and only those items that never change will be shown in this guide.
* Minigames and Puzzles must either be completed or skipped (Skip button is located at the top right) once they’re begun. You can also Restart them (Restart button is located at the top left) and read the Instructions (click on the green Question Mark “?” located at the bottom left).
* During dialogs, you won’t have access to any other functions. Click the red Continue button (top right) to quickly progress through all the dialogs.
* Misclicks are cumulative and you lose control of your cursor for 4 seconds if you click 3 times in close succession.
Game Tips :
* If you’ve never read Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, first published in 1886, I urge you to do so. It’s a classic, wonderfully written, Victorian/Gothic horror novel.
* If you have read the novel, you may still enjoy it. If not, you may click as quickly as you like to progress.
* Be judicious in your use of Hints. If you start a scene with 5, an extra Potion Bottle will not appear.
* Some players are reporting missing images or incorrect scenes. Please contact BigFish Games if you have any issues.
System Requirements:
* OS: Windows XP/Vista
* CPU: 600 Mhz
* RAM: 128 MB
* DirectX: 6.0
* Hard Drive: 80 MB
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