Good vs Evil Flashcards
How is good and evil presented? x3
-Hypocrisy of victorian morals
-Good and evil as fragments of everyone’s oul
-Science vs religion
-Society’s
Jekyll stranscendental medicine uses an experimental and unorthodox approach to medicine, which involves delving into the supernatural and manipulating of god given human nature and the natural order unleashes evil.
However religion is presented to overide this, and could thus be seen as good.
-“Potion…Drug” chpt 10
-“Satan’s signature upon a face” chpt2
-“ Lusting to inflct pain” chpt 10
-“Gabriel”- archangel
-“Well let our name be vengence” chpt 8 Jekyll
Charles Darwin 1859 reversion + playing God
Stevenson uses the character of Hyde to criticise victorian’s society’s tendency to conflate one’s physical deformity with thier inner moral corruption. Despite Hyde’s internal evil, Stevenson presents society to hold immedate prejudice towards him based on his appearence, making his contemporary audience wonder whether those with deformities are morally evil by nature, or that by treating them as such they are forced become evil? Influenced by phronology (widely accepted pseudoscientific belief) and the popularity of human circuses including individuals such as Joseph Merrick (Elephant man), Stevenson highlights society’s cruel tendency to ostricise those with deformities, demonstrating that true evil lies not in deformity, but in the moral blindness of those who judge by it.
- “Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him” chpt 1
- “impression of deformity… “Loathing, disgust and fear” chpt 2
Stevenson critics the hypocrasy of victorian morals highlighting by his respectable Jekyll, and how he concealed his immoral and evil behaviours under the façade of gentility and goodness— as many believed Jack the Ripper may have done.
ripper= 2 yrs after, play canceled cuase of ripper + idea he was rich
-“Which wore a great air of wealth and comfort” chpt 2 (house)
-“Renewed relations.. always been, known for charities… now no less distinguished for religion” chpt 6
-“Concealed my pleasure’s” chpt 10
-“Lusting to inflict pain” chpt 10
