Religion in our society today is optional for people, but imagine living in a society in which following religious-like rules was a requirement in order to be a part of it. In Jekyll and Hyde Social codes dictated how people were supposed to live their lives, and the Victorian social order eerily resembled a religion in which everybody had to be a part of, and one major victim of this strict society was Dr.Jekyll. In Jekyll and Hyde, certain social codes impacted Dr.Jekyll positively, but the effects of most social codes are, in fact, negative. Codes do cause people to strive for an orderly society, but they also cause repression in the lives of many people, and it also forces people to behave nicely towards people they may not think positively
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The most important thing that Victorian social codes taught were that crime is an evil thing, and most people would not support anyone who dared try to break the rules. For example, the quote “We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other” (1.9) explains how people like Mr.Enfield, who was the speaker of this quote, are taught to make a huge deal out of crimes. The crime that occurred in this quote was the trampling of a young girl by Mr.Hyde, and Mr.Enfield made sure that Hyde knew that he wasn’t going to easily escape his actions. This quote helps show how people living in Victorian society knew that criminal activities were heavily taboo, and so they played the good Victorian by making sure that the criminal knew that they had done something that went against social Victorian codes. People were shocked by the crime, and this shows just how the social code of not breaking the law is drilled into their minds, and it results in a safer society because more …show more content…
Because of this social codes, people were not even allowed to think too badly of others without correcting themselves and preventing themselves from further talking about their true feelings. The freedom of speech that we as Americans take for granted was restricted for many people at the time that Jekyll and Hyde took place. For example, the quote “I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies. O, I know he’s a good fellow- you needn’t frown-an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him” (3.20) shows how Dr.Jekyll tries to convey his true feelings about Dr.Lanyon to Mr.Utterson and ends up having to hide them because his actions went against Victorian social codes. This affects Dr.Jekyll negatively because it forces people to have to live false lives in which they have to hide their true feelings about others, and it shows how these social codes have trained people to treat freedom of expression as something that should be heavily restricted. Dr. Jekyll wants to explain why he has a negative opinion of Dr. Lanyon, but Mr.Utterson automatically makes a frown that is meant to show Dr.Jekyll that he made a mistake. Dr.Jekyll is, in a sense, punished by Victorian social codes just for expressing his true feelings, and he is automatically forced to take back his personal opinion. In our world, people
The most important thing that Victorian social codes taught were that crime is an evil thing, and most people would not support anyone who dared try to break the rules. For example, the quote “We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other” (1.9) explains how people like Mr.Enfield, who was the speaker of this quote, are taught to make a huge deal out of crimes. The crime that occurred in this quote was the trampling of a young girl by Mr.Hyde, and Mr.Enfield made sure that Hyde knew that he wasn’t going to easily escape his actions. This quote helps show how people living in Victorian society knew that criminal activities were heavily taboo, and so they played the good Victorian by making sure that the criminal knew that they had done something that went against social Victorian codes. People were shocked by the crime, and this shows just how the social code of not breaking the law is drilled into their minds, and it results in a safer society because more …show more content…
Because of this social codes, people were not even allowed to think too badly of others without correcting themselves and preventing themselves from further talking about their true feelings. The freedom of speech that we as Americans take for granted was restricted for many people at the time that Jekyll and Hyde took place. For example, the quote “I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies. O, I know he’s a good fellow- you needn’t frown-an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him” (3.20) shows how Dr.Jekyll tries to convey his true feelings about Dr.Lanyon to Mr.Utterson and ends up having to hide them because his actions went against Victorian social codes. This affects Dr.Jekyll negatively because it forces people to have to live false lives in which they have to hide their true feelings about others, and it shows how these social codes have trained people to treat freedom of expression as something that should be heavily restricted. Dr. Jekyll wants to explain why he has a negative opinion of Dr. Lanyon, but Mr.Utterson automatically makes a frown that is meant to show Dr.Jekyll that he made a mistake. Dr.Jekyll is, in a sense, punished by Victorian social codes just for expressing his true feelings, and he is automatically forced to take back his personal opinion. In our world, people