CHARACTER ANALYSIS- Henry Jekyll
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- CHARACTER ANALYSIS- Henry Jekyll
- PILLAR IN SOCIETY
- Behaves in a socially acceptable way
- Carries his "head high" in public and is "fond of the respect" people give him
- Good and respectable man
- "well known and highly considered"
- Behaves in a socially acceptable way
- PUTS ON A FACE TO APPEAR RESPECTABLE
- Puts on a excessively respectable front
- "a more than commonly grave countenance before the public"
- Worries about his hidden desires- thinks there far worse than they are as he is so obsessed with appearing respectable
- His hidden desires make him feel guilty so he creates a "deeper trench" between his good an bad side than most people
- THEME REPUTATION=He excessive sense of guilt for what he sees as his "faults" may be a criticism of the pressures Victorian society placed on people to appear respectable
- He hides his desires
- "almost morbid sense of shame"
- His hidden desires make him feel guilty so he creates a "deeper trench" between his good an bad side than most people
- THEME REPUTATION=He excessive sense of guilt for what he sees as his "faults" may be a criticism of the pressures Victorian society placed on people to appear respectable
- His hidden desires make him feel guilty so he creates a "deeper trench" between his good an bad side than most people
- "almost morbid sense of shame"
- Puts on a excessively respectable front
- AMBITIOUS MAN OF SCIENCE
- His work in "transcendental medicine" shows he is a brilliant scientist
- His research is controversial
- Lost the respect of Dr Lanyon because of his "unscientific balderdash"
- Not seen as respectable in Lanyon's eyes as it crosses the boundaries from science into the mystical world
- He's motivated by ambition and a selfish desire to be relieved of his guilty conscience
- "relieved of all that was unbearable"
- Wants to rid himself of the curse that man's good side and bad side are bound together
- "the curse of mankind"
- CONTEXT= Scientific discoveries in the 1800's sometimes challenged religious beliefs. Jekyll use science to challenge the religious belief that people should lead a sin free life
- KEEPS HIS EVIL SIDE SEPARATE TO HIMSELF
- He creates a completely separate identity for his evil side
- Gives his evil side a name - Mr Edward Hyde
- Furnishes a house and employs a housekeeper for Hyde
- Chooses a house in a different part of town and dresses him "very plainly"
- Often refers to Hyde in the third person
- "I find it in my heart to pity him"
- THEME DUALITY OF MAN= alternates between referring to Hyde is third person. This reflects his hypocrisy- he understand that man has a dual nature but he ha trouble to accept that Hyde is part of him
- "He, I say -I cannot say, I"
- Seems in many way the opposite of Hyde
- JEKYLL= "kindness" , "a tall fine build", "all men's respect"
- HYDE= "callous" , "dwarfish" , "damnable"
- BUT THERE TOO SIDES OF THE SAME MAN
- Jekyll's obsession with reputation is reflected in Hyde
- "No gentlemen but wishes to avoid a scene"- has no reputation to protect which suggests he is thinking like Jekyll
- Hyde is clever like Jekyll eg. in the park he figured out how to get the drugs- he isn't just animalistic and primative
- Jekyll's obsession with reputation is reflected in Hyde
- He creates a completely separate identity for his evil side
- INCREASINGLY LOOSES HOLD OD HIS DARK SIDE
- "slowly loosing hold of my original and better self"
- Wakes up as Hyde without taking the drug
- Jekyll fights to control Hyde, but Hyde is stronger eg. David Carew murdered after Hyde is suppressed for 2 months
- CONTEXT= Victorians represses their desires in order to maintain respectability. Stevenson may be criticising the dangers of this kind of repression
- Finally he completely looses hold of his dark side which suggests evil is the stronger side of our personality
- "slowly loosing hold of my original and better self"
- PILLAR IN SOCIETY
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