Why is Brabantio so dismayed about Desdemona's marriage, despite the fact that Othello is so honored and admired in Othello?

It is one thing to appreciate a person's qualities from afar (or maybe not so afar, since Brabantio had received Othello as an honored guest in his home), but quite another matter to accept that person as a member of one's family.  By displaying this contradictory trait in Brabantio, Shakespeare is skillfully holding the mirror up to all of us, not just citizens of 16th century England.  We, in our modern society, still struggle with this sort of "two-faced" prejudice today.

That said, Brabantio not only decries the marriage (since it was completely improper for a daughter to elope without securing her father's blessing and permission), but goes further and accuses Othello of bewitching his daughter in order to get her to marry him:

She is abus'd, stol'n from me and corrupted

By spells and medicines, bought of mountebanks,

For nature so preposterously to err...

Sans witchcraft could not.

...I therefore vouch again,

That some mixture powerful o'er the blood,

Or with some dram conjur'd to this effect,

He wrought upon her.

Certainly, Brabantio is making reference to the impossibility of his daughter falling in love with a black man.  But it is the witchcraft that he is objecting to before the Duke.

It is up to Othello and Desdemona to convince the Duke that they are married for love, not by the benefits of witchcraft and potions.  And Othello's speech to the Duke, explaining the real situation of love between himself and Desdemona, is one of the most powerful and beautiful in all of Shakespeare (Act I, Scene iii, lines 128 - 170).

Describe the intergenerational relationship between Bailey and the Grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Fine."

Bailey is the son of the grandmother, she is his mother and she bosses him around.  He is a weak individual who does whatever his mother tells him to do.  She directs him to take the family on a detour to see and old house from her childhood which results in tragic circumstances, the family is confronted and killed by a wretched murderer.

"In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" all of the characters—most obviously the Grandmother—are concerned only with their own wants and desires."

Had the grandmother not been so demanding and insistent on going to visit this house from her youth, the family would not have encountered the criminal Misfit, the killer, and would still be alive.

The grandmother's ability to manipulate only extends to her weak son, Bailey, who wears a yellow and blue shirt with parrots on it, indicating that he is weak, or yellow and like a parrot cannot think for himself, but rather just repeats what others say, particularly his mother.   

"Bailey seems unresponsive to his wife and children, allowing them to take advantage of him."

Did Schindler at one point care about the Jews?

I think that Oskar Schindler's view towards the Jewish people of the time was complex.  At first, he cared about them as property.  He cared that hiring more Jewish workers in his factory would yield him more profit, as he only had to pay them half of what other workers' wages would be.  He also cared for them, in so far as they were "essential" to his functioning.  When Stern was accidentally placed on a train to Auschwitz, Schindler does care because his business effectiveness was jeopardized ("What if I had come five minutes later?  Then, where would my business be?)  He also cares for them as a reflection of his own sense of worth as a business man.  He hires Jewish workers at the behest of Stern and others, and justifies them as essential to the functioning of his business.  Over time, it seems to me that three forces seem to  conspire to awaken a more authentic sense of care in Schindler regarding his affection for Jewish people:  Schindler's success, the growing atrocities of the Nazis, and his own sense of Christianity that had laid dormant for some time.  These three factors work in tandem and separately to develop a sense of compassion in Schindler. 

The affectionate and caring display he makes to Helen Hirsch, Amon's maid, proves this. In addition, the show of care he demonstrates to the two Jewish girls who bring a cake from the workers on his birthday would also confirm this.  The most stunning example of Schindler's care, before his actions to save his workers, would be when he bribes SS guards to water down a train full of Jewish people bound for a concentration camp.  Amon recognizes that Schindler is not merely doing it for the entertainment of the Nazi officers there, Schindler's devotion to how they should be watered, and "making sure everyone gets water at each stop," is the first indication that Schindler starts to have feelings for the Jewish people as more than just workers.  Naturally, when Schindler sees the charred body of the girl in the red petticoat, some type of evolution happens, and this helps to want him to save as many workers as possible.  He even goes to other business tycoons to try to enlist their help.  Obviously, the ending when he collapses in Stern's arms and pleads, "I could have done more" proves that Schindler does care about the Jewish people and has become a full and richer person, albeit a more destitute one.

Why would Shakespeare create a character like Don Pedro in his comedy about romantic misunderstandings, "Much Ado About Nothing"?

Because Shakespeare doesn't believe in sticking rigidly to "genre". This is the man who wrote a comedy about a Jew, just like Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta", but filled his Jewish character with bitter, angry humanity, which led to despicable deeds, so that his audience didn't know whether to hate him or to sympathise with him: that's Shylock, in "The Merchant of Venice". This is the man who took an old comedy with a happy ending, "King Leir", and turned it into a bleak, violent, nihilistic tragedy with one of the most heartrending denouements in all of drama.

And into his comedy of misunderstandings, where all the fuss is "about Nothing", Shakespeare inserts all sorts of problematic characters. I won't go into Don John, a really dark, ominous and troubling characters. I won't detail the bloodcurdling curses Leonato makes to his daughter when he thinks she is a whore. I won't go into the way callow Claudio believes (on very little evidence) the charges against his loyal wife.

Don Pedro is a bit of a problem, I think. For a start, he seems to be "friendly" towards Claudio in an incredibly passionate and committed sort of way:

My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how,
And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

He makes a sad sort of botched proposal at the party to Beatrice, who rejects it out of hand. And at the end, he's left with no wife at all. Benedick shouts to him, just before the end,

Prince, thou art sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

And he doesn't respond. Make of that what you will!

Hope it helps!

What is the mood of the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est"?

The mood is unremittingly bitter, bleak, harsh and unpleasant, showing in viscerally thick verbal detail the absolute horror endured by the men who fought in World War 1.

Within that, though, I think there a few separate moods in the various stanzas of the poem. The first stanza is heavy, tired, almost asleep with weariness, and the rhythms drop in heavily, slowly, painfully...

                           All went lame; all blind; 
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots 
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Then, as the gas explodes, the poem picks up pace and the mood becomes one of terrified, gasping panic:

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! –  An ecstasy of fumbling,  Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time...

There's then another painfully bloody and gruesome description of a man dying from gas, and the mood is almost wincingly painful, emphasising little details. And the final stanza then changes into a new, more angry, more ironic mode: the mood is aggressive, hostile to the reader, and it hammers home its final ironic point:

You would not tell...
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est 
Pro patria mori.

An exceptional, wonderful poem, I think. Hope it helps!

In The Great Gatsby, Jordan says,"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." How is Jordan's statement ironic?

In traditional literary analysis, the season have specific symbolic interpretations: spring usually symbolizes rebirth, a new beginning, youth, innocence.  Fall is spring's opposite--fall brings the harvest, the end of summer, the "beginning of the end", nature starts to decline and die.  Fall is often associated with middle to late life.  It is ironic that Jordan indicated that life begins in the fall because it is counter-intuitive to the natural cycles of the earth and nature.

Is a teacher legally allowed to call a student a judgemental name because of the clothes the student is wearing?

While it is likely against school policies, and may cost this teacher his or her job, it is not likely ILLEGAL (meaning against the law) for the teacher to have called a student a judgmental name.  The first amendment to the US Constitution protects our right to free speech.  It does not however, require our employers to put up with our bad choices in what we say.

Now, if it is a public school (state sanctioned), then the teacher may not make any discriminatory statements based upon race, creed, religion, national origin, etc.  That would in fact likely be illegal.  I am interested in specifically what this teacher said in order to provide further thoughts here.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", with whom do the children sit in court and what do the foot-washers say to Miss Maudie?

Miss Maudie loves her flowers and the outdoors, so she's always working in her garden.  The Foot Washers believe than anything that's pleasure is a sin.  They think that she should be spending her time inside reading her Bible.  So when they pass her on their way to court, they shout to her,

"'He that cometh in vanity departeth in darkness!'"

They think that she's going to go to hell, and her flowers would burn right with her.

Once inside, the kids can't find a seat.  They see Reverend Sykes and they go up to the balcony and sit with him and the others of the black community for the duration of the trial.

In Act 1, Scene 5 of Antony and Cleopatra, what figurative devices are used to highlight the theme or message of the piece?

Although Shakespeare makes use of metaphor, personification, and apostrophe in this scene, his main element of figurative language proves to be hyperbole.  Antony and Cleopatra, after all, is a love story.  What better way to highlight this theme than with a scene of Cleopatra doting on her absent lover, Antony.  This is exactly what is happening in Act 1, Scene 5 of the play.  Shakespeare uses many metaphors here, such as when Cleopatra says, "Now I feed myself / With most delicious poison" as she speaks of Antony calling Cleopatra a "serpent of old Nile."  Cleopatra even ventures into personification and apostrophe (not to mention more metaphor) as she speaks to the absent horse that carries Antony:  "Do bravely, horse, for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st?  The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm / And burgonet of men."  However, the main figure of speech used here is hyperbole.  In fact, it is hard to find a line of Cleopatra's speech that does not contain hyperbole in this scene.  (The last example is also a metaphor of hyperbole regarding Antony's strength.)  When Cleopatra is told that she thinks of Antony too much, she replies, "O, 'tis treason."  When told that Antony is "nor sad nor merry", Cleopatra replies, "O well-divided disposition! . . . O heavenly mingle!"  Cleopatra quickly adds, "Who's born that day / When I forget to send to Antony, / Shall die a beggar."  When someone compliments Caesar, Cleopatra insists, "By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth, / If thou with Caesar paragon again / My man of men."  Ah, sweet infatuation, . . . always coupled with hyperbole.

What is effective business communication, and what are the different types?

To begin with there are two major categories of business communication. The first is internal communication and the second is external communication. With internal communication you have upward, downward and horizontal communication.  The memos from the "boss" to the employees would be downward, for example.  Memos, reports, data from the lower level management to the upper level would of course be upward communication.  Horizontal would be communication within the same level of company business.  External Communication would be the information passed from one business to another, or to consumers, vendors, and outside people.

The effectiveness of these communications depends on clarity, brevity, and correct documentation.  One must be sure that the information is clearly labeled, clearly stated, and always keep copies of memos, reports, and records.  One needs to make sure the information is presented in a format correct for the situation and all the "t"s are crossed and the "i's" dotted so to speak.

There are several links below listed for more information on this topic.

During Scene 4, what directions does Romeo have for Juliet and for the Nurse? What is about to happen at the end of Act II?

Romeo gives clear instructions to the Nurse to pass on to Juliet;

Bid her devise some means to come to shrift
This afternoon;
And there she shall at Friar Laurence’ cell
Be shriv'd and married.

Juliet has to come up with some way of getting to a confession ("shrift") that afternoon - and when she gets to her "confession", she will in fact be married.

The nurse gets a different set of instructions:

And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall.
Within this hour my man shall be with thee
And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair,
Which to the high topgallant of my joy
Must be my convoy in the secret night.
Farewell. Be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains.
Farewell. Commend me to thy mistress.

She is to wait behind the abbey wall, while the two are married. Romeo's servant will bring her a rope ladder ("cords made like a... stair"), which he will use to climb into Juliet's bedroom at night to consummate their marriage (i.e. have sex with her).

Of course - what is to happen at the very end of the act is that the wedding will take place: only hours before Romeo becomes a murderer by killing Tybalt.

What is the solution for in and out table, 1 in 2 out, 2 in 4 out, 3 in 7 out, 4 in ? out, 5 in and ? out.

In          1          2       3          4         5

out         2         4       7           --       --

From the above pattern we observe that every successive out term is a sum of  previous out+current In.

i.e.       the secon out 4= first out 2+second In 2

           the third out 7= second out 4+third in 3

          the fourth out =third out 7+ fourth In 4

                                =11

            the fifth out= fourth out 11+ fifth In 5

                              =16.

So,      the numbers are    11 and 16.

In The Tragedy of Macbeth, what do we learn about Macbeth from Lady Macbeth's reaction to his letter in Act I, Scene v?

Macbeth informs his wife, Lady Macbeth of the prophecies he had received from the witches that predicted he would become Thane of Cawdor and then will be king hereafter, through a letter. He tells her that the treacherous Thane of Cawdor had been stripped of his title and Macbeth had replaced him as Thane of Cawdor just as the witches had prophesised. After reading the letter, Lady Macbeth is also taken in by the prophecy of the witches. However she is aware that there is a high probability that it will not be as easy for Macbeth to become King of Scotland as it was for him to be Thane of Cawdor. She knows Macbeth will have to kill to get to that position. Knowing her husband’s nature well, she also comes to the realisation that her husband is incapable of murder. Although she knows he does not lack the ambition, she does know he lacks the ruthlessness that is needed to commit to an act of evil. ‘…yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness…’ So she calls upon spirits to make her strong enough for her husband, and for her to embody the evil that is needed for Macbeth to reach his ambitious goal. She claims to want to be morally misguided so she does not hesitate in allowing her husband to kill. “That my knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry ‘Hold, hold.” After exclaiming this, she is now ready to guide Macbeth to make whatever choices he has to, to take fate into his own hands and reach his ambitious goal of becoming the king of Scotland.

What is the plot of "The Interlopers"?

This is the story of two conflicts.  There is a conflict between two men.  They are Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, two men whose families hate each other.  They are out patrolling some land that they both sort of claim, and it is clear that they want to kill each other.

Then there is a conflict between the two men and nature.  They are caught under a tree that falls on them in a storm.  While they are under the tree, they resolve the conflict between them and agree to be friends.  But the conflict with nature is still unresolved.

At the end of the story, nature looks like it is going to win because a pack of wolves comes and, it appears, is going to eat the two helpless men.

I'd say that the climax to the story comes when the two men make peace with one another.  That means that the part before is the rising action and the part after is the falling action.

How does the end of the story affect Jing-Mei in "Two Kinds" and what is the most memorable thing she says?

The end of "Two Kinds" represents both the end of the conflict between Jing Mei and her mother that can be traced throughout this short story and Jing Mei's own self-acceptance of herself as an individual.

Before her mother dies, Jing Mei is given the piano by her mother. It is interesting that she describes this as a "shiny trophy" - a metaphor that clearly indicates her feelings about the piano and about her conflict with her mother over her piano playing. Jing Mei regards the piano as a "shiny trophy" because she has won it, but on her own terms, rather than through being forced to do something by her mother.

Jing Mei's discovery of the partner-song to "Pleading Child" indicates her own development as an individual and her arrival at a stage where she is happy with who she is and is no longer trying to be someone she is not or live her life for someone else (namely her mother). The title, "Perfectly Contented" clearly suggests that having gone through a stage where Jing Mei was a "Pleading Child", desperate for her mother's approval, she is now happy with herself.

Jing Mei's realisation that they were "two halves of the same song" perhaps indicates that this is a universal struggle that all must go through: we all go through a stage when we are a "Pleading Child", wanting our parents' approval and aprobation, yet eventually have to learn to live our own life and make our own choices, and become "Perfectly Contented."

Can anyone identify an example of personification in the song "One Tin Soldier" by The Original Caste?In the song "One Tin Soldier" by The Original...

Another phrase that might be considered personification is "one tin soldier rides away"--for a soldier made of tin is not human.  But that's a stretch, because really "one tin soldier" refers to a human, a rebel metaphorically described by the tin, not so much to a metal toy.  But wait . . . now that I think of it, that's also not exactly true, for Billy Jack (drop head, raise fist), is toyed with. 

And not to contradict but to extend--"valley cried" is also an example of what's called synecdoche, a way of speaking where the whole stands for its parts: in this case where "the valley" stands for "the people of the valley."

Give me 3 good examples from the novel Fahrenheit 451 that best fit the definition of science fiction.

The novel contains several basic elements of science fiction, beginning with the setting.

1. The novel takes place in the future, the most basic element in science fiction.

2. Society in the novel is very different from our own. Montag's society is oppressive and totalitarian. The government keeps its citizens under control, primarily by keeping them ignorant and frightened. Individuality is condemned and individual rights are nonexistent. Books are burned to prevent independent thinking. The people lead miserable lives, largely unaware of their own suffering. Mildred's attempted suicide is a good example of this persistent misery.

3. The novel includes technology that is currently beyond our means. The primary example of this is the mechanical hound with its poisonous needle nose that is capable of tracking down traitors who dare to own books.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", why does Scout quiz Atticus about his visit to the Radley house?To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Scout has heard all kind of rumours about Boo Radley and she wants to check her father's version against that of such people as the town gossip Miss Stephanie Crawford.

According to local tales, Boo is a drooling maniac, a peeping Tom, prone to violence (as when he stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors). He also eats raw squirrels and prowls around at night, much like a nocturnal animal. All of this is interesting enough, but even to Scout, these stories have a hollow ring....

Scout knows her father is an honest man, not given to exaggeration or gullible enough to fall for 'tall tales.' She wants to get more reliable information from a more reliable source. So she pops the question to Atticus since she knows that is the best place to go.

State Boyle's law and explain an experiment to demonstrate the relation between pressure and volume.defination of boyle's law and give a brief...

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) English physicist and chemist, first determined that compressibility of air in a closed system varied with pressure in a simple inverse relationship.  If pressure doubled, volume halved.  The first and second states of a closed system's pressure and volume can be stated as

P1V1 = P2V2

Otherwise known as Boyle's Law.  In 1662, he performed the experiment to esatblish this principle by trapping air in the closed end of a tube shaped like a J, and added a known quantity of mercury ot increase the pressure, and noted the change in the volume.

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, I. Asimov, pg. 94, 1964.

See an animation of this experiment at the link:

Why was Sam Tatum tarred and feathered in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry"?

According to T.J., Sam Tatum was tarred and feathered because he allegedly called Mr. Jim Lee Barnett, the man who runs the Mercantile in Strawberry, a liar.  T.J. says that Mr. Tatum told Mr. Barnett that he had not ordered all the things for which he had been charged, and when Mr. Barnett asserted that he had all the things Mr. Tatum had ordered written down, Mr. Tatum had asked to see the list.  Mr. Barnett had insolently responded, "You callin' me a liar, boy?', to which question Mr. Tatum had replied, "Yessuh, I guess I is".

Even though Mr. Barnett most likely did not order all the things for which Sam Tatum had been charged, it was of little consequence that he was cheating his customer.  What was important in the social climate of the times was that Mr. Tatum, who is black, had dared to stand up for himself and question a white man.  The night men, or Ku Klux Klan, operated with impunity in the South during the years the story takes place, and they were very quick to take the law into their own hands whenever they felt the Negroes were "steppin' outa (their) place".  In retaliation for his "uppity" behavior, the night men rode down to Mr. Tatum's place and "poured the blackest tar they could find all over him, then plastered him with chicken feathers" (Chapters 3-4).

When different active BOMs are available, how can MRP be run?It happens when there are alternative row materials can be used, but as far as I...

MRP, which is an acronym for "material requirement planning" refers to a class or type of computer software that calculates the requirement of material to be procured or manufactured to meet the material required for a given production plan. MRP uses two input information to calculate this. One is BOM, also called bill of material, that gives information on quantities of different items of material required for manufacturing one unit of a given product. The other input information required by MRP is data on quantities of different material already available in stock, on order, or under manufacturer.

When we say that MRP considers just one BOM what we mean is that there can be just one BOM for one product to be manufactured. However, there is no such limitation on multiple BOM for multiple products. As a matter of fact use of MRP is justified only when there are multiple products.

In many real life situations, when a required material is not available for planned production it might be desirable to use a substitute material, so that there is no shortage in production. Situations like these can be handled in one of two fays in MRP.

In the first alternative, same product that are manufactured using different set of input material may be treated as different materials and separate BOM may be used for each of such material. The second, alternative is to identify the for each input material the substitute material that may be used. It is also possible to use both the methods in the same MRP application.

When MRP shows that the planned production can not cannot be achieved because of shortage of some input material, it can also show the products affected and materials in short of requirements, along with alternative products and substitute materials. Based on this managers can decide on action to be taken, and input this information manually into the MRP system. Based on this MRP can then calculate revised material requirements.

What is the theme of "Hope is the Thing With Feathers"?

Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing With Feathers," is the VI part of a much larger poem called "Life." The poem examines the abstract idea of hope in the free spirit of a bird. Dickinson uses imagery, metaphor, to help describe why "Hope is the Thing With Feathers."

In the first stanza, "Hope is the Thing With Feathers," Dickinson uses the metaphorical image of a bird to describe the abstract idea of hope. Hope, of course, is not an animate thing, it is inanimate, but by giving hope feathers, she begins to create an image hope in our minds. The imagery of feathers conjures up hope in itself. Feathers represent hope because feathers enable you to fly and offer the image of flying away to a new hope, a new beginning. In contrast, broken feathers or a broken wing grounds a person, and conjures up the image of needy person who has been beaten down by life. Their wings have been broken and they no longer have the power to hope.

In the second stanza, "That perches in the soul," Dickinson continues to use the imagery of a bird to describe hope. Hope, she is implying, perches or roosts in our soul. The soul is the home for hope. It can also be seen as a metaphor. Hope rests in our soul the way a bird rests on its perch.

What solutions for marriage troubles can be found in the tales of The Miller and the Wife of Bath?

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is definitely a commentary on Medieval life and a satire of the duality of people--especially those in the church who were expected to behave one way but more often than not behaved quite the opposite way.

In the case of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Miller's Tale" we have excellent examples of Medieval humor and wit.  Both tales deal to some extent with marriage, but not so much with solutions to the problems presented.  The Wife tells a tale about a Knight who is forced to marry an old hag who helped him answer the question, "What do women want most?" Once he gives in and decides to treat her with respect and as an equal (the motto of the worthy Wife of Bath, by the way) the hag disappears and becomes a beautiful, faithful wife.  So, in essence, the answer to marital problems according to the Wife is to treat the female as an equal in the marriage--give her the respect she deserves and allow her to make decisions.  Problems solved.

The Miller is a different story altogether.  The "problem" in the marriage in this story is that the wife lusted after someone else, and she was lucky her husband was gullible and witless so she could pursue her lover.  Rather than celebrating marriage and working on solving issues between men and women, this tale celebrates opportunity, appetite, youth, and cleverness.   There is no real solution to the problem of adultery offered in this tale. 

In Rome and Juliet, when Juliet speaks about "light love" or her light behavior, what specificially does she mean by the word "light"?

 "Romeo and Juliet" is full of light/dark imagery, which often contrasts the sun and the moon, day and night, or the idea of light as representing all things beautiful and wonderful, and darkness, contrastingly, as representing the absence of those things. However, I do think the word "light" in the two passages you refer to above has another meaning - which is quite separate from that.

"Light" to the Elizabethans could also be a pejorative word meaning "easily seduced", "sluttish" or "whorish". A girl who has sex on her first date might be referred to as "light". And this is what Juliet is worried about.

She's worried, basically that Romeo will think that she is "light" because she has yielded so quickly to his advances:

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.

She would, she says, have held Romeo off for longer - only he overheard her before she realised. So he mustn't think that she's easily seduced, because she really does mean it - and she means to prove true.

"Light" then is a kind of "false" - easy, whorish. Hope it helps!

How is the motif of digging related to A Tale of Two Cities as a whole?The motif of digging is seen throughout the novel. How is the motif of...

The motif of digging is referring to uncovering that which was hidden or lost.  It begins in the first book, "Recalled to Life,"  in which Dr. Manette is released from prison.  Long held in captivity, Manette has lost most of his reason.  The process of "digging" to find his sanity is left to Lucie over the years.  Yet still, he has occasional bouts of relapse, reliving that past which he believed to be buried. 

In the same way, Darnay is forced to reveal a past which he too believed to be buried.  His connection withe the Evremond family  has been rejected by him, but in his arrest and trial, it must be uncovered.

Jeremy Cruncher's "sideline" of a graverobber is symbolic of this process. He sells corpses to medical students and doctors.

In all, each character has something "buried," which must be dug up and faced.  All secrets must be revealed, for good or ill.

How does Stevenson create a sense of evil in Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

The author creates tension and evil with the creation of Edward Hyde, the product of Dr. Jekyll's experiment.

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is based on the story of Edinburgh's infamous Deacon Brodie, who was discovered to have been living a double life, coupled with a dream Stevenson had one night, what he called "a fine bogey tale," about a man who drinks a potion made from a white powder and subsequently transforms into a devilish creature."

Suspense is also felt in not knowing what Mr. Hyde, who is a totally immoral individual, will do once he emerges and takes control of Dr. Jekyll.  Hyde is unpredictable and violent.

Edward Hyde reflects the ugly side of the human spirit.  He embodies evil with such ease, it is very frightening to imagine a killer more manipulative, sadistic and indifferent that Hyde. He represents the dark passions that exist in all of us, except in Hyde's case they are in total control of both mind and body.  What is really eerie, is that Jekyll finds himself enjoying his alter ego's escapades.

"Part of him as Hyde "felt younger, lighter, happier in body" and more free than Jekyll ever had, while at the same time he recognized this new creature as "pure evil." Jekyll continued taking the potion until one night he found himself transforming without the drug and noted that Hyde was getting stronger."