Dual nature of man
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- Created on: 08-04-18 16:29
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- Dual Nature of Man
- two sides to every individual
- before hyde he was leading a double life
- established gentleman
- guilty of sins and desires that he keeps hidden
- Jekyll states duality applies to all of humanity
- Jekyll is more self-aware
- good and evil sides of his personality are struggling against one another
- Jekyll underestimates the power and attraction of his purely evil side
- in the end - hyde and bad side to Jekyll over rule
- before hyde he was leading a double life
- two sides can be sinful and virtuous
- all people, including Jekyll, are a mixture of sin and virtue
- hyde is the purely satanic side of Jekyll.
- complex attitudes to sin
- power - hyde takes over in the end
- temptation
- unavoidable - as hyde, Jekyll gives in to original sin
- civilised and uncivilised
- hyde is the sinful side and uncivilised
- he disrupts the ordered and civilised world the jekyll & his friends live in
- some upper-class Victorians thought that people committed crimes were less evolved
- using darwins theory to back this up
- Stevenson forces his readers to consider theres savage within all people
- hyde is a part of Jekyll - without civilised it is the pure evil of hyde
- hyde is the sinful side and uncivilised
- society
- uses idea of duality to criticise respectable society
- gap between appearance and reality in people and places of Victorian London is hypocritical
- uses imagery of clothing to show how people and places can put a misleading appearance ot the world
- proud of reputatons = prioritise their appearance
- gentlemanly characters lookdown on immoral activities in public
- jekylls fate is a warning about trying to hide who you are
- hyde doesn't hide behind appearances
- appearances can only conceal so much
- uses idea of duality to criticise respectable society
- two sides to every individual
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