Repression + Victorian Morals

Question 1

What were victorian morals?

Answer 1

-Morally upright and self controlled

Question 2

How is repression and victorian morals shown?

Answer 2

-Hyde as the product of this
-Jekylls guilt
-Utterson’s obsession

Question 3

Hyde as the product of repression?

Answer 3

• “Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil” chpt 10
• “my devil had been long caged he came out roaring” chpt 10

Question 4

Jekyll’s guilt: as he indulges in his sinful ied, but in secrecy.

double sin (lying and homosexual)

Answer 4

• “i am done with him in this world” chpt 5
• “I concealed my pleasures” chpt 10
• I have brought on myself a “punishment…If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also” chpt 6 (letter to utterson)

underestimates the power of ied, and the phycological impact.

Question 5

Utterson’s controlled an respectibility contrasts to his obsession with Jekyll

homosexual

Answer 5

• He was “austere with himself” chpt1
• “Though he enjoyed the theatre, he had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.” chpt 1
• “Fire”, “Laying his hand upon the other’s arm” Jekyll to utterson= gay

1885- criminal law amendment act