In Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Dr. Jekyll consumes experimental potions which transforms him into a violent monster. Tony Eprile’s, A True History of the Notorious Mr. Edward Hyde, on the other hand, has a much more realistic view on Stevenson’s classic tale. In Eprile’s take on the classic tale, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were two separate people, living two separate lives until their paths cross and a deal was struck between one another. In both cases, the stories have similar characteristics. For example Jekyll seeks to release his evil from within by using Hyde to take the blame for any acts committed. Without Hyde taking the blame for all the destruction that Jekyll want’s to cause, Jekyll would have no way to have that release and at the same time keep up his perfect image. It seems as though in Stevenson’s version, Hyde is seen as the bad guy. Where as in Eprile’s version, Hyde is just the victim and Jekyll is really the one that forces Hyde to be the bad guy which subsequently makes Jekyll the actual bad guy. Depending on the perspective that is being shown for any story, the reader’s perspective can fluctuate greatly. Eprile is able to show in A True History of the Notorious Mr. Edward Hyde, that Even though Jekyll seems to be the one that is doing no harm because he is only instructing Hyde as to what evil to commit, he is actually just as evil, if not more so that Hyde is, and Hyde is the one actually participating in the acts. The perspective that Eprile gives to the reader of the classic tale of Hyde’s side of a much more realistic version of the story is a much simpler story to follow than that of the original Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Vladimir Nabokov is able to see that even in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll is not good. “Is Jekyll good? No, he is a composite being, a mixture of good and bad, a preparation consisting