Themes - Duality Flashcards

1
Q

What shows that every person has two sides to them

A

Man is not truly one, but truly two

Jekyll says this in the last chapter

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How is the street (of where Hyde’s house is) showing duality

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The street shone out in contrast to its dinghy neighbourhood, like fire in a forest

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3
Q

Jekyll admits another side of his character

A

I was thinking of my own character which this hateful business has rather exposed

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4
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How Jekyll tries to repress the second side that had come out

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He came out of seclusion, renewed relations with his friends

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5
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Jekyll explicitly states that man is dual

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Severed in me those provinces of good and evil which divide and compound man’s dual nature

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Jekyll thinks you can get rid of one side

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Could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way

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7
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Jekyll feels transformed by becoming hyde - but really he is just one person
One side can take over the other too

A

At the first breath of this new life, to be wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil

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8
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The two sides are really one - they share things

A

My two natures had memory in common

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9
Q

Stevenson likes Darwinism to Freuds theory and duality

A

Primitive duality of man

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10
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He is confronted with the fact he is neither one side nor th either

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It was only because I was radically both

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11
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How does duality link to Darwin

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Many people wanted to get rid of their ‘bad’ side which they believed was the ape-like primitive part of them, like Hyde

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12
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But Jekyll still believes that there is not exclusively a good / bad side

A

I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend

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13
Q

What does Enfield do that shows he has another side

A

someplace at the end of the world, about three o clock of a black winter morning

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