Jekyll and Hyde
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- Jekyll and Hyde
- 'Ego'
- Sigmund Freud {1923}
- Contrast between dual personalities. One dominates the other but at different times.
- Jekyll
- Conflicting Character
- "two natures that contended in the field of [his] consciousness" (chapter 10)
- He is concerned with the nature of the soul or personality rather than the physical body.
- "Man is not truly one but truly two..." (chapter 10)
- Scientific Interest in Supernatural/ Spiritual Aspects
- "led wholly towards the mystic and transcendental" (chapter 10)
- He sees his discovery as a unique advance in science.
- Behaviour
- Jekyll has a good character and initially enjoys releasing his guilty pleasures as Hyde.
- He is increasingly tormented by the behaviour of Hyde becoming reclusive and fearful.
- "My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring..." (chapter 10)
- Conflicting Character
- Sigmund Freud {1923}
- Hyde
- Animalistic Imagery
- "Snarled aloud into a savage laugh" (chapter 2)
- "ape-like fury" (chapter 4)
- Darwinism
- Short stature, troglodytic, hairy hands with knotted tendons
- Regressed down the evolutionary chain.
- Animalistic Imagery
- Context
- Victorian London
- London Fog - air pollution throughout the late 19th Century and the start of the 20th Century.
- Stevenson used this to create a gloomy atomsphere in the novella.
- Class Difference - Lanyon and Jekyll's houses are in very respectable areas whereas Hyde's rooms in Soho are in very poor.
- London Fog - air pollution throughout the late 19th Century and the start of the 20th Century.
- Victorian London
- 'Ego'
- 'Id'
- Sigmund Freud {1923}
- Contrast between dual personalities. One dominates the other but at different times.
- Sigmund Freud {1923}
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