Jekyll Chapter 10

• "I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two


  • the verb ‘doomed‘ alludes to ecclesiastical judgement - he fears god and how he will be perceived in the eyes of religious expectations
  • noun ‘shipreck’ is interesting as a present dangerous of his realisation, It hyperbolises the psychological suffering that he’s endured
  • The repetition of "truly" within his statement hints that this is coming from a place of rationality- implies that his discovery is the truth.
• Primitive duality


  The two natures that contended in the field of consciousness
• The allusion to 'primitive' is pertinent as Stevenson was writing at a time when the discussion of evolution and the notion of 'primitive' was relevant to Darwinism
• Hyde


  • Less evolved
  • The evil side of Jekyll's nature
  • Less robust and less developed initially in comparison to Jekyll
• As Hyde's evil nature progressed


  It eventually overpowered Jekyll and he was less able to revert to his respectable self
• There was almost the internal survival of the face within Jekyll
• Jekyll's evil nature


  Contained within the organised room of subconsciousness
• The 'agonised' suggests Jekyll made an egregious mistake attempting to separate the two aspects of his nature
• Jekyll says the two polar twins should be continuously struggling
• Stevenson summarises his diet tribe of Victoria Society and religion within the met’ my devil had been long cage, he came out roaring’ the verb cage depicts the repression of Victorian society/religion through the text there is a perpetuated theme of suffering and toxic or auserity
• cage also has animalistic illusions suggesting this pleasure seeking hedonism and perhaps later evil is an instinctive
• Jaco claims that the worst of my faults was certainly inpatient gated Lee of disposition suggesting his grace was that he did not deny himself pleasure. This was incoherent with the Expectations of his society does he was forced to resort to secrecy this in herself is an oxymoron as this honesty is incompatible with the blueprint of a respectable gentleman
• Stevenson was raised in a devout Calvinist environment, which postulated that humans were in a sinners and they needed to be unburdened of the sins by the grace of God. This is our strict and polarise perspective or morality and distilled the notions of good and evil perfectly and wholy Propane and genius. It could be sad that Jacqueline Hyde embodiments of these polls and morality interestingly the novel explores how they can merge and one can osculate between both.
• Stevenson was wearing the Novela in 1885, that same section 11 of the criminal law and Mendon act made' gross indecency' between men and criminal act this allowed homosexuality to be prosecuted
• In an early draft of the novella Dr Jekyll confessed' I became in the slaves of certain appetite' which has been critically interpreted as an illusion to homosexuality and the need to repress or concealed these within the pubic relm
• A comment of gothically was a consumer of controversial tropics and plain side through the fake illusion and undertones
• Upon his first transformation into high accurate describes.' a current of disordered sensual running like a.mill race' which has implications of sexual produce and desires' millrace 'refers to the current of water and that turns of water this imagery of water could lead to free flowing section desires