Jekyll
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- Henry Jekyll
- Doctor and experimental scientist
- Jekyll has been carrying out experiments to separate his personality
- Came to realize the 'profound duplicity of life'
- May not be to separate good from evil but separate deepest desires.
- 'Man is not truly one, but truly two'
- Even London itself has a dual nature,with it's respectable streets existing side by side with areas notorious for their violence.
- Curious, interested in the paranormal
- Potion meant he could commit acts of evil and feel no guilt
- Jekyll has been carrying out experiments to separate his personality
- Wealthy and respectable
- Known for his charitable work.'every mark of capacity and kindness'
- Stereotypical Victorian gentleman
- 'Born to a large fortune' and well educated
- Guaranteed a good future
- Sociable person in the past
- Throws dinner parties where the main focus is on science, religion and literature,and the people are: 'all intelligent and reputable.'
- During the course of the novel his behavior becomes increasingly erratic (unprdictable)
- Also becomes hypocritical, which Stevenson believes to be his fatal flaw.
- One of his old faults was an impatient certain gaiety (light-hearted) of disposition, which attempted to trivialize (make it seem less important)his indiscretions his youth.
- How he hid his 'irregularities' with a morbid sense of shame.
- Suggests his activities were sexual in nature.
- Homosexuality a crime
- Suggests his activities were sexual in nature.
- How he hid his 'irregularities' with a morbid sense of shame.
- One of his old faults was an impatient certain gaiety (light-hearted) of disposition, which attempted to trivialize (make it seem less important)his indiscretions his youth.
- Also becomes hypocritical, which Stevenson believes to be his fatal flaw.
- Leaves everything to Hyde in his will
- Utterson wants him to change his will
- Can transform into his alter ego (Mr.Hyde)
- Too weak to contain Hyde
- Jekyll loses control- he just starts transforming into Hyde
- Is Stevenson saying that if we give into our darker side they will ultimately end up winning out of our good.
- Or to repress and conceal this sides to ourselves is to hide who we are, to damage ourselves psychologically
- 'I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self'
- Is Stevenson saying that if we give into our darker side they will ultimately end up winning out of our good.
- tried so hard to repress Hyde: 'my devil had been long caged, he came out roaring'
- 'the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged' (personification)
- Jekyll loses control- he just starts transforming into Hyde
- 'Doctor Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness to his eyes'
- Too weak to contain Hyde
- He admits that within himself he often fights his desires and compulsions in order to conform to Victorian society
- Horrified by his own actions when he transforms into Hyde
- 'ordinary secret sinner'
- At one point assure Utterson nothing is wrong and he wished Hyde would disappear and never return
- Commits suicide, but before he dies he transform into Hyde
- Stevenson uses the contrast between Jekyll and Hyde to show that every human being contains opposite forces within them
- Doctor and experimental scientist
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