Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Essay -- Jekyll Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThis novella, although unapp arnt, is intertwined with manyallegorical undertones. Stevenson uses the bulk to criticise Victoriansociety and its hypocritical existence. The most significant thematicconcern of the novella is the continually revisited theme of theduality of man and the mask evil that lies deep within thehuman race.Stevenson was writing before the bound in which the greatpsychologist Sigmund Freud was researching the human mind, so in some slipway Stevenson was ahead of his time in resolving the mystery of themind. Stevensons novella, after being added to by his wife on thebooks revision, contained much evidence of these theories of thehuman psyche.Armed with this weapon, Stevenson employ the novella to attack thehypocritical ways of the Victorian society he lived in. The themeplays on the idea of a part of the unconscious, the id. The id isthe Hyde part of a human, which is of course repressed, undevelopedand primiti ve, with the taste for hunting and sex. Then on the new(prenominal)hand is the superego, your conscience and morality, with thefloater between the two, the ego. Jekyll stresses that, man isnot unfeignedly one, plainly truly two.This all links to the theme of hypocrisy in Victorian society. Jekylladmits, ...and it was as a secret sinner that I at last fell beforethe assaults of temptation. Stevenson tries to reveal the doublelives that were being lived well-nigh this era. Some critics believe thatthis is a self-confession of Stevensons sinful past. Jekyll is theperfect representation of hypocrisy, as he is described as thespotless Jekyll yet continuously assembly to Utterson and one couldargue, soci... ...en to partake in his, scientific balderdash.One much symbol is apparent. The key to the laboratory is a symbol ofpower and post and in this case, the key holds satanic power,therefore Hyde is the one who has the power to transmit back intoJekyll. When Utterson and Poole sear ch for the key and fail to findit, they cannot overcome evil. This in any case means that they do not haveaccess to evil, as they are sinless in the story.It is clear that Jekyll started with selfish intentions when hestrived for a erupt self, this is why the experiment only strippedJekyll of the Jekyll veneer, leaving the Hyde interior. And thatJekyll is in detail a host for the constant bombardment of metaphors,especially with hypocrisy as Jekyll represents hypocrisy and theVictorian society itself.In Hyde, you have no Jekyll but in Jekyll, you always have some Hyde