During the Victorian era, Individuals such as victorian gentleman had been known to set high standard moral conduct values of philosophy which dealt with their society. different issues such as social-class segregation and white supremacy had upheld reformations throughout history which had reshaped their thinking about religion and many aspects of human life. Furthermore, This era of hypocrisy had believed that every problem could be psychologically repressed, including our primary “primitiveness”. This denial of character had made people to reconsider about their identity and pushed curiosity to an extent to connect with nature and make an impact to their society and culture through the rise of repression. Sigmund Freud’s work
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Henry Jekyll, the understanding of how Victorian society pressure individuals to sustain an image, forced people to create a duplicity of themselves. suggesting that any individual hides innate desires within in a society. Jekyll hides all of his guilty pressure deep within his character because he knows that this wouldn’t be acceptable to his ‘conservative’ community. As freud had said that “The strength of this united body is then opposed as right against the strength of any individual, which is condemned as a brute force. (Freud, 2)”, this surely rejects Jekyll who is considered as a rebel whos against the will of his society. Nonetheless, his desire to create an environment for him to be his true-self drove him to create his dual-personality. His prominence in his society might also be a likelihood for him to be vulnerable to this act as Stevenson associates him with characters which interest in reputation and recognition of works they share. However, whenever he gets a chance to be Mr. Hyde, his whole persona isn’t as flamboyant as he is when he’s Mr. Jekyll. Mr Enfield describing him says: “He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. (Stevenson, 1)” this contrast of how separate he is from Dr. Jekyll shows how impulsive his character is from reality. The character of Hyde then slowly takes over as he can no longer control the demand of his evil side
Henry Jekyll, the understanding of how Victorian society pressure individuals to sustain an image, forced people to create a duplicity of themselves. suggesting that any individual hides innate desires within in a society. Jekyll hides all of his guilty pressure deep within his character because he knows that this wouldn’t be acceptable to his ‘conservative’ community. As freud had said that “The strength of this united body is then opposed as right against the strength of any individual, which is condemned as a brute force. (Freud, 2)”, this surely rejects Jekyll who is considered as a rebel whos against the will of his society. Nonetheless, his desire to create an environment for him to be his true-self drove him to create his dual-personality. His prominence in his society might also be a likelihood for him to be vulnerable to this act as Stevenson associates him with characters which interest in reputation and recognition of works they share. However, whenever he gets a chance to be Mr. Hyde, his whole persona isn’t as flamboyant as he is when he’s Mr. Jekyll. Mr Enfield describing him says: “He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. (Stevenson, 1)” this contrast of how separate he is from Dr. Jekyll shows how impulsive his character is from reality. The character of Hyde then slowly takes over as he can no longer control the demand of his evil side