DR JEKYLL THEMES
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- Created on: 27-10-18 16:03
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- DR JEKYLL
- Friendship and Loyalty
- Social respected and well behaved
- holds dinner parties, well known in community for his reputable character.
- behaves socially acceptably, is very aware of how other people see him.
- Social respected and well behaved
- Hidden Behaviour and Repression
- Repression and reputation
- Jekyll kept the sinful side of his personality repressed to appear socially respectable
- Repression and reputation
- Science and Religion
- Religion
- “Captives at Philippi”
- This is a reference to how Hyde is unexpectedly freed and causes more trouble
- “This inexplicable incident… seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment”.
- explains his mental state of conflict, how he has set himself up against god.
- It also foreshadows Jekyll’s death and evokes a feeling of doom.
- explains his mental state of conflict, how he has set himself up against god.
- “Captives at Philippi”
- Science
- Jekyll's expriments
- Jekyll’s experiments cause destruction and death of the people around him,. This shows the potential of science to destroy the order of society and disrupt rigid Victorian expectations.
- Jekyll's drugs
- intrusive: “some white salt” and “some strange things”
- Vague language: ambiguity and fear
- intrusive: “some white salt” and “some strange things”
- Jekyll's expriments
- Religion
- Duality of Human Nature
- When Hyde disappeared Jekyll became old self and visits friends goes to church and holds dinner parties
- “He came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been known for charities, he was now no less distinguished for religion.” (6)
- This is a reference to how Hyde is unexpectedly freed and causes more trouble
- When Hyde disappeared Jekyll became old self and visits friends goes to church and holds dinner parties
- Friendship and Loyalty
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