All Themes In Jekyll And Hyde

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  • Themes In Jekyll And Hyde
    • Duality Of Human Nature
      • Jekyll's experiment began in attempt to separate the two sides of human nature
      • Jekyll cannot suppress Hyde (Jekyll enjoys being Hyde).
      • Hyde disrupts the ordered and civilized world Jekyll lives in.
      • Jekyll was from a well respected family-Gentleman.
      • "I was radically both." (Jekyll)
      • Jekyll kept Hyde "long caged" - suppressed, Hyde came back more brutal than ever.
      • "Man is not truly one, but truly two." (Jekyll)
    • Repression
      • The restraint, prevention of a feeling or quality experience.
      • "My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring." (Jekyll)
      • "I read Satan's signature upon a face." (Utterson about Hyde)
      • "Drank gin when he was alone to mortify the taste of vintages." (Utterson)
    • friendship
      • The three friends (Utterson, Lanyon and Jekyll).
      • "The trio were inseparable friends."
      • Utterson's friendship with Jekyll leads him to Hyde.
        • Utterson wants to help and protect his friend. Utterson is determined to uncover the mystery of Hyde.
      • Jekyll and Lanyon have been friends for a long time, although they fell out due to Jekyll's approach to science
        • "Unscientific balderdash." (Lanyon)
      • Utterson proves his loyalty to his friend Jekyll by confronting Hyde.
      • "sincere and warm affection." (Jekyll about Utterson
    • Religion
      • "But carrying it off, sir, really like Satan."
        • Before we even know Hyde's name he is already linked to Satan.
      • "My Devil had been long caged." (Jekyll)
      • "If ever I read Satan's signature upon a face." (Utterson about Hyde)
        • Hyde is constantly associated with the Devil-embodiment of Satan.
    • Violence
      • "He broke out in a great flame of anger."
        • 'flame', fire is associated with hell-Satan.
      • "Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds."
        • 'bounds' may suggest the restraint and control Jekyll keeps Hyde under.
      • "The man trampled calmly over the child and left her screaming on the ground."
        • Hyde is portrayed as ignorant.
      • then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane and carrying on... Like a madman.
        • 'Great flame of anger' represents the fires of hell and brandish indicates a adrenaline rush.
      • "Ape like fury." (Hyde killing Sir Danvers Carew)
        • Animistic
    • Good vs evil
      • Jekyll and Hyde are instantly shown to be complete opposites, this is established before we even know of their names.
      • "Both sides of me were in dead earnest."
      • "Last good influence in the lives of down going men." (Utterson description)
      • Dr. Jekyll believes that good and evil should be separated from each other because he can not balance them well when they are mingled.
    • Science vs nature
      • "Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies."
        • Jekyll disappointment at Lanyon's comments of his scientific belief.
      • "Like a man restored from death- there stood Henry Jekyll."
        • unnatural transition from Hyde to Jekyll.
      • "But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm."
        • Jekyll understood and realized the risk of experimenting on himself.
      • Scientists where usually dismissive of the supernatural.
    • Repression and homosexuality
      • "Or else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding."
        • Utterson's sexually charged dream  about Jekyll (friend) which has to be repressed. He dreams about Jekyll being in bed and Hyde summoning Jekyll from bed.
        • Tragedy of the novel could be: society doesn't accept people for who they are and look down on them for who they are.
      • "If  he be Mr. Hyde" he  thought , "I shall be Mr.Seek."
      • The novel only mentions men.
      • Stevenson wants society to be more toelrant.
      • Friendship could be a proxy for homosexuality. (Jekyll cant give int o his sexual desires because society forbids it).
      • "Queer street, the less i ask."
        • 'Queer' means homosexual (hints Hyde is in a homosexual relationship with Jekyll).
      • "Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth."
        • Enfield believes Hyde must be blackmailing Jekyll for something he'd done in his youth.
        • All young men  potentially give into homosexual desires. (only appropriate when young and immature)
    • Reputation
      • Jekyll has to hide his sins to protect his reputation so he creates Hyde to rid himself of sin.
      • 'I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us bargain. Never to refer to this again' (Utterson)
      • "I have been safe of all men's respect" (Jekyll)
      • Stevenson's message: Reputation cannot be trusted because they are based on appearances -They are versions of a person that he or she would want the world to see.

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