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)
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • 'Id'
    • Sigmund Freud {1923}
      • Contrast between dual personalities. One dominates the other but at different times.

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