key words, context, key themes Flashcards
(8 cards)
PP TT HH REPRESSION FORMS MAD DEVILS
paradoxical, primitive, transgression, transmogrification, hypocrisy, heinous, repression, facade, morbid curiosity, dichotomy
VICTORIANS DID FORCE PERFECTION
victorian london, darwinism, freuds psychoanalytic theory, physiognomy
DARGFS
duality, appearance vs reality, repression, good vs evil, friendship & loyalty, science vs religion
victorian london (3 points)
- founded on hypocrisy, paradoxes,
repressive, restrictive norms
2.jack the ripper - surgical background
jack the ripper alike to jekyll (respectable background)
3.thriving prostitution industry + drug abuse
darwinism (3 points)
- developed theory of evolution
- contributed to rise in science
- hyde is representation of regression into primal form
freuds psychoanalytic theory (3 points)
- broke brain into 3 parts
- id (animalistic part of man) ego (mediator between id) superego(does what is socially acceptable)
- hyde-id jekyll-ego utterson-superego
physiognomy (4 points)
- pseudo - scientific theory
- characters can be judged through outward appearance
- stevensons portrayal of hyde - conforms to this (evil nature is shown through deformities)
- stevensons portrayal of jekyll - ridicules through polished, unblemished facade of jekyll
stevensons intentions (2 points)
1.jekyll-microcosm for victorian gentlemen hyde-reveals blurred lines between morality & immorality aswell as good and evil
2. the novella serves as a cautionary tale - moral purification - denies natural impulses and desires