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DR Jekyll and MR Hyde
DR Jekyll and MR Hyde
Furthermore:
The opposition between Dr. Jekyll – who wants to be
good and stop doing bad things when he is Mr. Hyde –
symbolically represents the struggle between good and
evil, which is often inside any man/woman.
The main colour of the setting is The main colour of the setting
white: (the , , ice, snow) is black: almost every action
takes place at night.
The Monster is not accepted by Mr. Hyde cannot be accepted by
society (but he could, as he is society
good at the at beginning of the
story).
The novel and Freud
It pre-empted Freudian psychoanalysis (which
really only began to be common currency on the
publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in
1901) by twenty-five years, and yet is similar to some
of its theories.
Under the constraints of rigid Victorian society, the
unprepossessing Jekyll learns to give into his inner
desires (the instinctive forces Freud termed the
Id) when he is transformed into Hyde. The
rational, controlled, civilised part of Jekyll (Freud's
super-ego) attempts to repress the Id, and make
Hyde controllable. However, as Freud pointed out
in his studies of neurotic patients, such a repression
of the driving force of nature within us often leads
to horrible, barbaric consequences.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Hyde represents the ever-demanding destructive
powers of the Id
Jekyll represents the conscious ego, whose
original tendency was by no means towards the
vicious, but rather towards the 'loose', a neutral
desire for certain kinds of personal freedom
Superego → the dictates of social conventions;
the Victorian professionist.
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