Jh Quotes Flashcards
“It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature.”
it was his desire for achievement rather than an innate degradation in his soul that drove a wedge in his personality. Jekyll’s comparison of himself with others reveals his conviction that his evil impulses were not greater, his aspirations were higher.
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Jekylls final letter Jekyll tries to bring moral conscience and rational analysis to investigate the central question which drove his experiment. Victorian society strove to separate the good from the evil in human nature to purify it. Jekyll sought to unify his soul as a natural, wholesome quest.
And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
when Jekyll sees himself as Hyde he sees a friend, he found that facing your own evil nature leads to peace after society’s repression.
Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures
Jekyll in his letter talking about how he had to repress, ‘concealed relates to the theme of mystery, a secrecy.
and that when I reached years of reflection, and began to look round me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.”
he realised that by conforming to society’s expectationss he had already developed a personality split.This shows that the society may be the harmful thing.
“I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility
Final chapter Jekyll describes the unintended symptoms of repression.Compares himself to a drunkard, reduced to a state of animalistic impulses.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”
This built up frustration is what resulted in such extreme actions and violence in Hyde.Comparing Hyde to the devil and suggests that society was his cage
No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene,’ says he. `Name your figure.”
Although Heven though he’s the uncontrolled side of Jekyll his cold calculation shows a degree of repression, has manners
