Good v Evil

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  • Good vs Evil
    • Stevenson uses minor character e.g. landlady c4
      • "evil face smoothed by hypocracy" "but"manners were excellent" shows putting on front for respectibility
      • Also uses police man as initially concerned then goes to "professional ambition"
    • Jekyll writes in reply to utterson c6 "chief of sinners, i am chief of suffers also" hint at inner conflict between Jekyll and Hyde. Hyde sins, Jekyll suffers
    • Duality nature of men c9 "much deeper in the nature of men" Lanyon. Meeting Hyde causes Lanyon to confront the truth about human nature and how everyone has it
    • c10 gives temptation to poison. Shows lost control.
      • Could suggest the more you repress your desires the more they will come out in the end. Jekyll kept Hyde "long caged" but he returned more evil than ever.
    • chapter 10 Jekyll's fate disturbing as readre can apply Jekyll thoughts on human nature to their own lives
    • Jekyll gives separate identity of bad side.
      • Jekyll alternates speaking about Hyde in first and third person- understand man has a dual anture, has trouble accepting Hyde part of him
    • Hyde eventually takes ober wonder if more bad than good in Jekyll after all
    • Jekyll says duality applies to all humans "man is not truly one but truly 2"
      • Without Hyde "ordinary secret sinner" suggesting everyone is a mixture of good and bad

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