Jekyll and Hyde key themes
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- Created on: 07-02-20 06:28
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- JEKYLL AND HYDE- THEMES
- SCIENCE
- Fearful force
- Stevenson explores ideas of death. destruction, and going against God
- through theme of science
- Stevenson explores ideas of death. destruction, and going against God
- Fearful force
- DUAL NATURE
- Hypocrisy
- = pretending you have higher standards/ more noble beliefs than you do
- Stevenson wanted to show how Victorian society was hypocritical
- and how their was a void between reality and appearance
- why characters take a lot of pride in their reputation and prioritise appearance over honesty
- and how their was a void between reality and appearance
- Hypocrisy
- RELIGION
- Religious tendencies
- all characters in novel display these
- Jekyll reads religious texts, Utterson reads 'dry divinities'
- all characters in novel display these
- Sin
- Jekyll thinks of sin as 'burden of his life'
- Jekyll= 'secret sinner'
- Jekyll thinks of sin as 'burden of his life'
- Refrences
- 'Babylonian finger'
- As King Belshazzar didn't bow to the Israeli God
- so a hand appeared and wrote out his death sentence on a wall with his finger
- Jekyll alludes to this biblical scene
- as it explains his mental state of conflct and how he has set himself up against God
- also foreshadows jekyll's death and evokes feelings of doom
- as it explains his mental state of conflct and how he has set himself up against God
- As King Belshazzar didn't bow to the Israeli God
- 'Babylonian finger'
- Religious tendencies
- VIOLONCE
- Hyde
- gains pleasure from violence
- shocking amount of pleasure from killing carew
- 'glee' 'delight from every blow'
- shocking amount of pleasure from killing carew
- commits 2 crimes against innocent , helpless citizens
- gains pleasure from violence
- Hyde
- VICTORIAN GENTLEMEN
- Class + professionalism
- Perks
- Repuataion
- utterson= more concerned with preserving Jekyll's reputation than bringing Hyde to trial
- U =wary of gossip tries to avoid talking to anyone of Hyde
- 'if it came to trial your name might appear'
- after Carew murder to Jekyll
- utterson= more concerned with preserving Jekyll's reputation than bringing Hyde to trial
- SCIENCE
- Jekyll uses as a reference to his soul/body
- shows he want to use his body for experimentation - as if experimenting with God
- said to house god
- oxymoron indicates lack of remorse
- violence is such a habitual event he fulfils without much contemplation
- 'trampled calmly over the child's body'
- gentlemanly idea of supressing inner thoughts leads to Utterson's nightmares
- Stev msg= reputations are only based on appearances
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