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"My Love Letter to Cosplay" -Adam Savage In this Ted Talk, Adam Savage speaks to how important costuming and clothing are to the telling of a story. He has been in love with creating and pretending to be characters all his life because at a young age he didn't have friends. So, he learned to have fun by himself through set and costume. He speaks to how as a child he built an astronaut's spaceship and helmet out of cardboard. He then continues to explain how his love for costuming continued as he throughout his life attempted to replicate the costumes of movies and TV shows. From the knights in the movie "Excalibur" to No-Face in"Spirited Away". Savage also speaks to his time on the TV show "Mythbusters" and how he would always use costume to being the narrative of the myth to life. In conclusion, he says, "We're connecting with something important inside of us. And the costumes are how we reveal ourselves to each other....

Analysis: Robert Louis Stevenson specifically chose to create characters that describe the duality of human nature.  The characters he created were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Stevenson specifically writes his novella to highlight the fact that they are foils of each other.   In Chapter 1, Mr Hyde is described as "deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point"  and just downright "displeasing".  This is important because in the Victorian era the disabled and deformed were thought to be ugly as they were the complete opposite of the ideal Victorian man.  Furthermore, the idea of deformity gives the reader the idea that he comes from an impoverished background.  Thus, the idea that he would be working with the doctor (a high status man) is seen as wrong in terms of the Victorian social norms.  People were supposed to stick to their classes, which further attributes a sense that something is...