J+H Flashcards
What was Freuds Unheimlich
Freuds theory that what scares us most is what is familiar to us, yet feels so foreign. (Eg Jekyll is scared of his other self, Hyde)
Jeykll quotes
(jekyll) “ there became a blackness about his eyes” (upon mention of Hyde)
“the moment I choose I can be rid of Mr Hyde”
“I was thinking of my own character which this hatebul business has exposed”
“oh god utterson what a lesson I have had”
“a dismal screech of mere animal terror”
“the powers of hyde grew with the sickliness of jekyll”
Hyde quotes
“It wasn’t like a man, it was like a damned juggernaut”
“hardly human, something troglodytic”
“Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds”
“the stick had broken under the stress of this insensate cruelty”
“dismal screech of mere animal terror”
“the powers of hyde grew with the sickliness of jekyll”
Utterson quotes
“I incline to Cains Heresay”
“I let my brother go to the evil in his own way”
“honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations”
“ if not of your consent, then brute force”
Give the main contextual ideas behind J and H
Calvantism
Victorian Societal standards
Darwinism (evolution)
Physiognomy
Pursued protagonist
Atavism
Setting quotes
(houses) “decayed from their high state”
“great field of lamps in a nocturnal city”
(god is always watching,night or day)
“dingy windowless structure”
“haggard shafts of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths”
“it had swept the streets unusually bare of passengers”
“it was a wild, cold, seasonable night of march”
Don’t forget…
(lackof?) liminality
Main JH readings
Freuds Unheimlich
Moral Aestheticism
Verneer
Original Sin
Liminality
