duality Flashcards
all human beings are comingled out of good and evil
no human can be inately moral or immoral, freudian thinking tells us that everyone posseses an ego and a id
three duality paragraphs
- duality of darkness vs light motif throughout
- duality of appearance and how it affects their soceital view
- duality of the inner conflict between j and h and hence the duality of man
reasoning for the light and dark juxtaposition
to play into fears of hydes raw evil character by juxatoposing the evil of the freudian id with the moral surface of the other characters, there was a lot of fear in the fin de siecle turn of century of the unknown
‘no particular colour’ vs sick and white
enfield is a morally ambigous gentleman normally, he shuns himself for gossiping and represents the average man in his values of being peacful and seen in public, but he strolls around late at night in indisclosed locations
thats why usually his morality is of no particular colour, but when met with hydes primal evil he becomes stark white as if to show the extremity of his moral compass in contrast to hydes utter freedom
the sickness and fear could stem from the truth that is envoked, the biblical temptation of evil is easy to give in to and hydes evil atmosphere appeals to the gentlemans repressed ID
black sneering coolness
unsettling tricolon
despite committing a heinous crime his sneering nature shows his complete disabandon for socieities rules, and coolness could both refer to the fact he is mentally unphased but also due to the fact its a winter evening he is inhumane and unbothered
black juxtaposes enfield and aslo is a clear connotation to death and evil
‘(secrets) like sunshine) vs hydes ‘black sneering coolness’
utterson views jekylls secrets, which was a very telling case of immorality in scoeity not being an honest individual, as being sunshine. this not only is white light but incredibly bright and warm- a DIRECT- contracdiction to black sneering coolness showing the misleading dual nature of his character and also of the imagery surrounding them
this would scare readers as even someone whos a reliable anchor with high logical and brains like utterson has no real perception of soemones true intentions
‘reputable men’ ‘well bred smooth faced man’
jekyll is a juxtaposition to hyde in the way that he completely abides to societal norms and so the reader would find trust and comfort in him from inital description
well made suggests that he comes from a respectable upper class background, likely old money as the new money and socially mobile were mocked. in a physiogonomy centred world the idea that facially there were no cracks would reflect the fact that morally he is pristine
he also conforms to the ideas that to be seen is to be respected hosting dinner parties and having many friends who were equally respected
point of the daulity of j and h in appearnace
stevenson looks to subvert the physionomy centric ideals in society and instead ask people to look deeper than outward appearances and to the character physiologically, this is a cautionary tale to ignoring mans primal mindsets and constricting their autonomy
my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs
hydes power is fed by evil, the more jekyll indulges in the youthful and freeing pleasure of his id the more he grows and becomes less conformist- hence why his mateiralistic items, a symbol of his upper class place, do not fit
hydes limbs are shrunken as he is an avatistic ugly character, but also becaus ehe is smaller and slighter due to the years of repression
evil has no place in the constricting victorian society hence why the robes do not fit
bit of a macbeth allusion here, as shakespear consnatly sees macbeaths corruption as a metaphor through his shrunken clothes, steveson is drawing connotations to a popular villain who deemed himself honourable but was harbouring evil
something… something troglyditic
something downright detestable
i cant quite trace it
even utterson, the vehicle for upper class logical conformism is inexplicably driven to anger
his description plays into the fin de sieicle trope of the unknwon as no one is able to fully place the source of his threatning appearnace even utterson with the upmost logical outlook- he even searches for reasoning and scarce knows why. hes more so an atmosphere than a personm his evil is personal but seems to convey the most primal form of human
the outburst in utterson is scary as it may show how his represnattion of the freudian ID inspirses others to emulate this or it awakens it in themselves, this is why the fear of hyde is specific to each person
the alliteration of ‘d’ creates a feeling of repulsion as it is adibly a sour spitting noise
the anaphoric representatipn shows logical utterson reaching for answers and being unable to grasp the core of his evil, it is used throughout the entire textt o show the indecisive unknowable nature of hyde
internal conflict duality in j and h
most importantly it has to be remembered that daulity as a theme stems from the semi permiable relaitonship between jekyll and hyde, both actions are ultimately due to one man and its clear how gentlemen and humans in society can habour multiple sides
younger, lighter, happier
this child of hell
‘child of hell’- dissocaites himself from hyde with this oxymoron, unnnerving as child is biblicallypure and naive whilst hell is the depths of evil, child is likely refering to how hyde is younger and happier and hence more temping as he has been frozen and represed
this too was myself
this is a minor dissociation
jekyll and stevenson reminds the reader that though they act was contrastingly, the moral of the novella is lost without permiable relations between the men
