Jekyll and Hyde - Themes and Context
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- Created on: 19-05-17 12:27
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- Themes/ Contexts
- Duality
- "thorough and primitive duality of man"- natural part of humans
- "lies at the root of religion...mostplentiful springs of distress" - causes trouble and misery
- "This, too, was myself" - tried to separate the two parts of him
- Good and Evil
- "alone in the ranks of making, pure evil" - Jekyll describes Hyde, his evil is selfish
- Jekyll- "one of your fellows...they call good"
- Hyde kills the innocent girl
- Hyde kills "an innocent and old world kindness" - Carew
- Friendship
- Enfield and Utterson friends - "It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other"
- Jekyll goes to Lanyon his "oldest friend" for help
- Utterson, Lanyon and Jekyll = friends
- Utterson's fear for Jekyll bc they're friends "I make no doubt I can get you out of it"
- Science
- Lanyon has "narrow and material views" only rational
- Jekyll has supernatural "transcendental" ideas
- Lanyon believes this to be "scientific heresies
- "shook the very fortress of identity" - Potion capability
- Appearance and Reality
- Jekyll considered respectable, hides dark inner identity
- Hyde appears normal, "child of Hell"
- Utterson thinks Jekyll is being blackmailed "Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!", same person
- Physical deterioration of Lanyon, from fear
- Science
- Darwins theory of evolution
- Psychology - new science
- Pharmacology - new science
- Gothic
- "moisture of some strangling anguish"
- "he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight"
- "the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned"
- "It was the curse of mankind"
- Victorian London
- "the low growl of London"
- Peasoupers
- Behind closed doors - The Story of the Door
- "to some five or six cronies" - victorian entertainment
- "Tut, tut!" - Victorian underplaying drama
- "they turned and left the court in silence" - Victorian silence
- "appalled by their own riot" - Victorian attitude
- Duality
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