Kyle Heslin-Rees

Darwin and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Literary genres which critics have utilise as a framework for interpreting the novel include spiritual onlyegory, fable, detective story, sensation fiction, doppelganger literature, Scottish d criminal tales and gothic novel. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been the influence for The Hulk, Two-Face and the general superhero genre for the storys ties to a double life. This story represents a concept in prudish culture, that of the inner conflict of hu macrocosmitys sense of good and evil. 10 In occurrence the novella has been interpreted as an examination of the duality of human record (that good and evil exists in all), and that the failure to accommodate this tension (to accept the evil or shadow side) results in the evil being project onto separates. 11 Paradoxically in this argument, evil is actually committed in an perspiration to extinguish the perceived evil that has been projected onto the innocent victims.In Freudian surmisal the thoughts and desires banished to the unconscious mind motivate the behavior of the conscious mind. If someone banishes all evil to the unconscious mind in an attempt to be all in all and completely good, it can result in the development of a Mr Hyde-type outlook to that persons character. 11 This failure to accept the tension of duality is related to Christian theology, where Satans condescend from Heaven is due to his refusal to accept that he is a created being (that he has a dual nature) and is not God. 11 This is why in Christianity, pride (to image oneself as without sin or without evil) is the greatest sin, as it is the precursor to evil itself it also explains the Christian concept of evil hiding in the light. 11 unhomogeneous direct influences have been suggested for Stevensons interest in the mental condition that separates the repellent from moral self. Among them are the Biblical text of Romans (720 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no chronic I who do it, but it i s sin living in me that does it. ) the hitch life in the 1780s of Edinburgh city councillor Deacon William Brodie, master inventor by day, burglar by night and James Hoggs novel The clannish Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), in which a young man falls under the spell of the devil. Some readers have argued that the dual personalities explanation is overly simplistic. Jekyll himself notes that a person may be divided into umpteen more than two distinct personalities he expects that researchers in the future give discover that a person is made up of many dissimilar selves.In his discussion of the novel, Vladimir Nabokov argues that the good versus evil view of the novel is misleading, as Jekyll himself is not, by Victorian standards, a morally good person. 12 One popular interpretation is the civilized versus animalistic approach. Other readers have argued even further that the weaken between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde represents the civilized and the animalist ic version of the same person. The description of Hyde as an almost prehuman creature and his actions that occur without thought, suggests that Hyde is more animal than man.Dr Jekyll on the other hand, can be seen as existing in a invariable state of repression, with the only thing controlling his urges being the possible consequences impose by civilized society. Another common interpretation sees the novellas duality as representative of Scotland and the Scottish character. On this reading the duality represents the national and linguistic dualities inherent in Scotlands relationship with the wider Britain and the English language, respectively, and also the repressive do of the Calvinistic church on the Scottish character. 13 A further parallel is also drawn with the city of Edinburgh itself, Stevensons birthplace, which consists of two distinct parts the grey medieval section historically inhabited by the citys poor, where the dark move slums were rife with all types of cri me, and the modern Georgian area of wide capacious streets representing respectability. 131415 The novella has also been noted as one of the best guidebooks of the Victorian era because of its piercing description of the fundamental dichotomy of the 19th one C outward respectability