Human nature is and has always been the struggle between good and bad. In the gothic novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson the concepts of humanity as dual in nature, and the importance of reputation are used to create tension between the good Dr. Jekyll and the revel Mr. Hyde. While at the same time representing the suppression of the Victorian time period. “Man is not truly one, but truely two.” The importance of duality in the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde plays a major role throughout the novel. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person, although they are polar opposites. Stevenson used several scientific theories, but specifically the theory of the double brain. Stevenson supported
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Repression in the Victorian time period ment no sexual desires, no expression of emotions, you weren't supposed to be happy but instead dignified. Dr. Jekyll is a respectable member of society, who is in need of repressing his inner Mr. Hyde which is indeed the complete opposite of himself. There comes a point in the novel when Dr. Jekyll is no longer able to control Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde ends up taking control. Mr. Hyde “no longer restrained ‘by those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptation’ as Hyde he participates in a series of monstrous depravities: tales come out of the man's cruelty, at once callous and violent of his vile …show more content…
It also became a time when people started to explore the light and the dark, the good and the bad, that is when men in London started looking for excuses for their sinful behavior which basically caused duality in London. “In the late VIctorian London (as elsewhere), this medico-juridico-scientific world relied upon its own perceived authority to control representations of identity through the dialectically related acts of looking and constructing a discourse of visual description” (Rago 2). People in the Victorian Era were more about what the society though, what was okay according to the society, and not about what I like, what I want to do. These standard of society is what lead Robert Louis Stevenson to write the gothic novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The novel is written in a dark perspective, it is primarily focused on the evil side of human nature, which go along with the Victorian
Repression in the Victorian time period ment no sexual desires, no expression of emotions, you weren't supposed to be happy but instead dignified. Dr. Jekyll is a respectable member of society, who is in need of repressing his inner Mr. Hyde which is indeed the complete opposite of himself. There comes a point in the novel when Dr. Jekyll is no longer able to control Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde ends up taking control. Mr. Hyde “no longer restrained ‘by those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptation’ as Hyde he participates in a series of monstrous depravities: tales come out of the man's cruelty, at once callous and violent of his vile …show more content…
It also became a time when people started to explore the light and the dark, the good and the bad, that is when men in London started looking for excuses for their sinful behavior which basically caused duality in London. “In the late VIctorian London (as elsewhere), this medico-juridico-scientific world relied upon its own perceived authority to control representations of identity through the dialectically related acts of looking and constructing a discourse of visual description” (Rago 2). People in the Victorian Era were more about what the society though, what was okay according to the society, and not about what I like, what I want to do. These standard of society is what lead Robert Louis Stevenson to write the gothic novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The novel is written in a dark perspective, it is primarily focused on the evil side of human nature, which go along with the Victorian