Science and Religion plan Flashcards
Intro
-Science is initially explored through Jekyll’s transgressive nature.
-As story unfolds we learn his science was intended to seperate good and evil but ended up opposing religious views that were cemented in Victorian era.
Beginning of the novella
‘He began to go wrong in the mind’
‘They have differed on some point of science’
‘Unscientific balderdash’
Conflict between Jekyll and Lanyon’s scientific approach.
Middle of the novella
-His flesh had fallen away’ -gothic image to present shock as his religious views are proved wrong
-‘Deep seated terror of the mind’ - he cannot fathom this horror
‘Rosy man had gone pale’
End of the novella
-‘Life that would be relieved of all that was unbearable’ -His science was intended to solve his moral problems.
-‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’ duality of man, J’s initial thoughts were to seperate good and evil and to erase evil.
-‘I had gone to bed Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde’ - lost control of his own creation.
