Read the excerpt from Alex’s essay on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The theme "Secrets isolate people from those around them” is repeated throughout the story. Dr. Jekyll isolates himself for mysterious reasons. Then, Dr. Lanyon isolates himself because of something that happened between him and Dr. Jekyll that he won’t talk about. In his essay, Alex is analyzing the
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background information in the exposition.D
connection between theme and resolution.Alex traces the same idea—secrets causing people to isolate themselves—through two characters and events in the story. Following how a theme appears and develops across a story is analyzing the development of a theme. The excerpt does not focus on how the theme connects to the ending, the exposition, or the climax.
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