APPEARENCE VS REALITY

• • “I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil…“ Jekyll realizes the realities of his darker side when he transforms into Hyde, showing the struggle between maintaining appearances and acknowledging reality.
• Motif of doors


  Emphasizes the gap between appearance and reality
• Outside the door


  • "smooth-faced man of around 50"
• Inside the door


  • "damned juggernaut" with a "displeasing smile" and an "impression of deformity"
• Stevenson uses the door

  To convey the message that even the most 'respectable' gentlemen have an evil side to them
• Jekyll and Hyde


  • Duality of man when Jekyll takes the potion and turns into Hyde, the less respectable part of Jekyll
  • Suggests that the more the Edwardian gentleman of the Edwardian era try to suppress their 'evil' side, the more it provokes it to release
• doors become a metaphor of transition in the novel