Jekyll and Hyde Themes
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- Jekyll and Hyde
- Duality
- "Agonizing womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling"
- We are not meant to separate our good from our evil
- Part of the fundamental struggle of being human is the two sides which wrestle against one another to determine who we are and what we do
- The struggle feels agonizing because its never finished
- We are tempted by the darkness
- We work to strengthen the light
- The struggle feels agonizing because its never finished
- Part of the fundamental struggle of being human is the two sides which wrestle against one another to determine who we are and what we do
- We are not meant to separate our good from our evil
- "Already committed to a profound duplicity of life"
- Jekyll represses himself to hide his desires to uphold his gentlemanly social status
- He already has chosen to live this way - he is already committed to it so there is no point in turning back and changing his mind now he's already there
- Starts with comparing duality between Jekyll and Hyde
- Jekyll thinks that everyone has 2 sides, good and bad just like himself, but he splits himself into good and bad, and pure evil
- "Man is not truly one, but truly two"
- Jekyll believes that everyone should be the way he is and split their personality into two
- Jekyll is convinced that man has a dual nature and knows what he is doing is dangerous
- "Man is not truly one, but truly two"
- Jekyll thinks that everyone has 2 sides, good and bad just like himself, but he splits himself into good and bad, and pure evil
- "Agonizing womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling"
- Reputation
- The main reason Jekyll created Hyde
- "conceal my pleasures"
- Jekyll wanted to hide his sin through the use of Hyde
- To uphold his reputation as a Victorian gentleman who is part of the upper class in society, expected to be respectable
- Jekyll wanted to hide his sin through the use of Hyde
- "conceal my pleasures"
- Even Hyde cares about his repuatation in some ways
- "no gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene"
- However, he trampled a girl and killed Sir Danvers Carew
- "Trampled calmly"
- Juxtaposition
- "Trampled calmly"
- The main reason Jekyll created Hyde
- Good Vs. Evil
- Jekyll thinks that everyone has 2 sides, good and bad just like himself, but he splits himself into good and bad, and pure evil
- "Man is not truly one, but truly two"
- Jekyll believes that everyone should be the way he is and split their personality into two
- Jekyll is convinced that man has a dual nature and knows what he is doing is dangerous
- "Man is not truly one, but truly two"
- Jekyll Vs. Hyde
- Constant battle between good and evil
- Hyde is portrayed as animalistic (evil)
- "Ape-like fury"
- "Hissing"
- "snarling"
- "Masked thing like a monkey"
- Hyde is portrayed as animalistic (evil)
- Constant battle between good and evil
- Jekyll thinks that everyone has 2 sides, good and bad just like himself, but he splits himself into good and bad, and pure evil
- Friendship
- Jekyll's relationships
- Holds regular dinner parties
- Utterson and some other "intelligent, reputable" upper class men
- Lanyon
- "Jekyll became too fanciful for me" ~ Lanyon
- Jekyll describes Lanyon as a "Hide-bound pedant"
- Utterson
- Utterson is a good man - he want to help Jekyll out because he thinks he is being blackmailed
- "I would trust you before any man alive - even before myself"
- Utterson is a good man - he want to help Jekyll out because he thinks he is being blackmailed
- Hyde
- He would miss Hyde
- "Conceal my pleasures"
- Jekyll begins to feel over powered by Hyde
- Turns into Hyde when he doesn't want to ( he hadn't taken the potion )
- "Friend and Benifactor"
- He would miss Hyde
- Holds regular dinner parties
- Hyde's relationships
- All of the relationships Hyde has with people are bad
- Jekyll
- He wouldn't care if Jekyll never came back
- Jekyll's relationships
- Science
- Supernatural - Jekyll begins to mess with things that were to be seen as supernatural and not science
- "not only hellish, but inorganic"
- Affects Jekyll's relationship with Lanyon
- "Unscientific balderdash"
- "I have had a shock - I shall never recover"
- "wholly towards the mystic and transcendental"
- Jekyll's science causes death and destruction
- Goes against religious beliefs
- He doesn't want god to see him sin so he conceals his pleasures and created Hyde so Jekyll can keep a clear conscience
- Supernatural - Jekyll begins to mess with things that were to be seen as supernatural and not science
- Deceitfulness/Deception
- "Concealed my pleasures"
- Jekyll is Hyde
- Plot is driven by deceit
- Utterson wants to find out about Jekyll and Hyde's relationship together
- Jekyll keeps telling Utterson to drop the subject when talking about Mr. Hyde or his will
- "I do not care to hear more - this is a matter I thought we agreed to drop"
- "The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and their became a blackness about his eyes"
- "I do not care to hear more - this is a matter I thought we agreed to drop"
- Jekyll keeps telling Utterson to drop the subject when talking about Mr. Hyde or his will
- Utterson wants to find out about Jekyll and Hyde's relationship together
- Mystery/ Secrecy
- Stevenson leaves a lot of gaps - it makes the reader more suspicious of things that are left unspoken or unexplained
- Gentlemen characters often decide not to speak about unpleasant things and pretend they are not happening
- Utterson and Enfield decide never to talk about Hyde again
- "Let us bargain never to refer to this again
- Utterson and Enfield decide never to talk about Hyde again
- They make shocking events seem normal
- Trampled girl described as a "bad story"
- Lanyon regards Jekyll as dead and Utterson replies "tut-tut"
- Stevenson uses locked doors as symbols
- Hyde
- Portrayed as a mysterious character
- We don't know that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person until the very end of the book - Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case
- Portrayed as a mysterious character
- Duality
- Quotes
- Themes
- Context
- Gothic fiction
- Deformity and super natural
- Frankenstein
- Published in 1886
- Victorian era - Queen Victoria
- Industrial revolution
- "Smog" - pathetic fallacy
- Science
- Darwinism
- Gothic fiction
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