Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Jekyll and Hyde
- Themes
- 'The duality of human nature'
- Science and the unexplained
- The law and the unexplained
- represents the standards of
conventional society and
the law
- doesn't have the imagination to understand
what Jekyll is doing.
- The names 'Jekyll' and 'Hyde'
- Jekyll = Je Kill = I kill
- In the last chapter, Jekyll
describes how he tried to
get rid of (kill) the Hyde in
him.
- Hyde = Hide
- hidden from view, or the rough skin of
an animal. Jekyll is in some way trying to
kill the hidden Hyde and his animal
nature.
- The size and age of Jekyll
and Hyde
- Jekyll is much bigger than Hyde.
This is seen particularly when
Hyde's small body is found in
the much larger clothes of Dr
Jekyll. Hyde is a smaller part of
Jekyll, but that if people repress
the bad in them it will take over
and destroy them.
- Hyde is younger and more energetic
than Jekyll. This suggests evil is
something that develops later in life,
after a period of childhood innocence.
- Suggests Stevenson felt there is
something primitively energetic
and exciting about mankind's
baser nature; that the 'higher',
respectable nature of social
humans is repressed and tame.
- Plot
Summary
- Characters
- Dr Jekylll
- Dr Lanyon
- Mr Utterson
- Mr Hyde
- Mr Enfield
- Poole
- Sir Danvas Carew