Folio Deadline - Monday 17th December

[mcf]

Hi,

You are to submit two folio pieces, typed, on Monday 17th December.
One of these pieces must be your persuasive.
You should insert them into the SQA folio template.
Google National 5 SQA template.
Open a blank version and save it before entering the pieces.
You can copy and paste from a word document or type straight into the document.
You should ensure that the personal / creative piece is placed first.
Ensure that the second piece, the persuasive, starts on a completely fresh page.
Both pieces should have titles.
Your persuasive requires a Bibliography.
You should use size 12. Times New Roman.
Print on one side.

Hope this helps.

[Luke Gardiner]

My third attempt at sending you my work.
Sorry for my inability to get this work in on time, here is the J&H essay and my personal. Cannot find persuasive so rewriting for the new deadline. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is a gothic horror novel set in Victorian Era London. The book’s major themes are good and evil, crime in the 19th century Britain, addiction and the duality of man. There were many taboos in this period of history forcing desires to become suppressed to create a front of air and grace. The duality of man is mainly found in Dr Jekyll himself. This essay will explore some of the major themes in the book.

Society in 19th century Britain created an expectation of every man, woman and child to follow an overly strict set of rules and if any person is unable to conform to these standards, through no fault of their own, they are looked down upon by the small group who are able to. Henry Jekyll, when he is introduced into the novel is one of many conformers. Jekyll presents the façade of simply being a highly respected doctor and member of high society while suppressing desires that ultimately lead to his suicide. Stevenson, through Jekyll, created a commentary on a thoroughly futile society. Society killed Jekyll. If his desires didn’t need to be suppressed, the elixir wouldn’t have worked and he wouldn’t have had to end his life in the worst way possible. He was born to a respectable, wealthy family but from an early age had partaken in several “youthful indiscretions”. Here Stevenson uses word choice to present the image of Jekyll in his youth, not having the same image of air and grace. This eludes to Jekyll being almost Hyde-like before ever taking the elixir.

Dr Jekyll lives in a grand house which is attached to a laboratory which is the birthplace of Mr Hyde who is truly just Jekyll’s desires imbodied. The surrounding streets to Dr Jekyll’s house are decayed and rundown which is another example of duality. The house and surrounding streets are the first of many examples of such duality. Stevenson describes the house as having “a great air of wealth of comfort” just like Dr Jekyll. The laboratory however is described as “a sinister block of building” just like the antagonist, Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll is both the protagonist and antagonist of the story making easy to debate whether is it is all truly his fault or whether society had a hand in his untimely demise. Dr Jekyll explains in his full statement of the case, “Two natures that contended on the field of my consciousness”. This is Jekyll referring to himself and Hyde duelling over the fate of the body they share. “Two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the same old Henry Jekyll”, This is a reference to Jekyll being the good side of himself and Hyde being such a contrast, the two are polar opposites.

Throughout the book, characters fail to articulate themselves creating a sense of mystery towards certain items or characters. “He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity.” This is when Enfield fails to describe Hyde. Nothing physical about Hyde is deformed, instead it is his soul, or lack thereof which is causing Enfield to feel this way towards Hyde. “Like a damned juggernaut.” This is used by Stevenson to create a sense of mystery which is never truly fulfilled towards the mysterious and evil Edward Hyde. Characters in the novel specifically avoid certain conversations which were unsightly at the time of the book’s publishing. Enfield and Utterson, in Chapter 1 cut off their gossip of Hyde trampling the child as it is distasteful. Stevenson again cutting off information from the reader about Hyde.



During the course of the book, Stevenson throws a devilish twist and Jekyll begins to lose himself to Hyde, slowly but surely. He is gripped by the drug and cannot break free or tell his closest friends about his self-enforced situation. Jekyll wouldn’t turn into his evil other without a basic evilness or simple want for wrongdoing previously residing within him. “The drug was wanted bitter bad.” This refers to Jekyll losing the battle to Hyde and needing more of the drug he once enjoyed only to save himself from the juggernaut of Hyde’s evil. Prior to the drug all of Jekyll’s desires were locked away to provide a graceful front from a demanding society. “I was slowly losing control of my original and better self and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worst.” Jekyll loses control over Hyde and the two sides split completely. Once Jekyll took upon the mask and dark thoughts of Hyde but now Hyde is winning the war for the body and Jekyll was losing himself to a monster of his own desires. “It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself.” Hyde grows in power while Jekyll becomes more and more crippled by the drug. The drug is no longer working the way it used to because his inner desires taking the face of Hyde don’t want it to.

Personal Essay.

The story of one of my highlights of my life so far begins at the end of the summer of 2017. My family were in New York. The Big Apple. And we didn’t hesitate to take a bite. Empire State, Madison Square Gardens, you name it we did it. We were 2 days back from a 2 day long excursion to Niagara Falls. Sitting on a air-conditioned train to Coney Island the idea we began to toy with was one of getting a dog. A fluffy friend to call our own. We continued to brainstorm the idea, much to my dad’s discontent throughout the rest of the trip. My mum, sister and I had always wanted one but my dad always said no. But then what began as a basic idea was kickstarted into gear on the 10th of July, 2017.

Coming back from the 30 degree sweltering heat to the barrenness and chill of Scotland resulted in me having a chill in JULY. Just my luck. I woke up on day 3 of said chill, stumbled downstairs and collapsed into our sofa. I fell asleep for a couple of hours then my mum woke me up. I had a serious temperature. I was whisked away to the doctor’s an hour later. Me and my mum were sitting in the waiting room, the whole place was running late as usual when I was asked a peculiar question. “What do you think of this?”, my mum asked me. Sitting there, 16 weeks old was destiny. Currently now referred to as Harley. “That just might be the cutest thing I have ever seen.”, I replied. Harley is a Shih-Tzu / Yorkie crossbreed, known as a Shorkie. We returned to our house with medicine for me and the same picture for my sister. She had a very similar reaction to me.

The debate began, halfway to the breeder’s house about the name. We must have gone through 100 names between my mum, sister and I. But that was the one we settled on. Our pup Harley. We met the breeder, a lady from Leicester who had traveled and brought the pups with her. The litter was mainly boys but we quickly decided we didn’t want a boy as they are more havoc. Then she padded over. Wagging her little brown and blonde tail, she licked my hand for the first time. I was in love. Then she was bought. For an animal just torn away from her normal surroundings, she was angelic on our journey home. She slept until we arrived back.

1 year later, Harley is my best friend. Always happy to see me when I’m back from anywhere I have been, even if I have only been gone for a minute. And sad to see me go, with floppy ears and a whine. I can’t imagine life without her and I never will be. She’s friendly and sweet and fiercely loyal. Just what you want from a fluffy friend.