Society and Duality in Jekyll and Hyde
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ScribdTranslationsTHE CHANGES IN SOCIETY, IN THE STRANGE CASE OF DR
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Realism is referred to as the tendency to present causes as they are.
son, without adornments, exaggerations or nuances, as stated by their
precursors Honoré de Balzac and Stendhal, this had a disadvantage,
that writers did not use fantastic elements and were not inspired
in the ideal world, this conveys a pessimistic view of life,
but society begins to be described as it is, understanding the
human being and understanding their customs; Now we will talk about the
psychology of characters that may be uncomfortable,
instrumentals, victims and executioners, cause and effect. They are witnesses and
creators of the reality they inhabit, "literature is a jungle, the
psicología es un jardín” decía Daniel Albright
Regarding the above, Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, with his novel
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes realism through
of the moments that each of the characters presents and the
different issues explained in the book, as it points out
exposes a harsh, harmful reality without any filters when approaching a work
that deepens human feelings and psychology in the
people, in this there is a conflict between the
protagonist with their surrounding environment, as it presents a side
perverse with which he wants to experience each of his feelings and
emotions, which somehow lead him to commit certain actions.
Undoubtedly, each of the characters' behaviors and
the different layers that unfold in the story place a
prototype in each making reality present, not only
in the characters we can see it in the different paradigms and
scenarios that the author describes to us, in different environments that
they support the tone of the narration, winter with its desolate streets, the
fog and the London cold and the silence and introspection of the
passersby reveal a dark, mysterious, and tense atmosphere that
it agrees with the reasons of the story and with the moments that will come
to show.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores in different ways
with different metaphors and at various points, the dual quality, not only
not of the human being as an individual, but of society, "Every day that
it passed, and on both sides of my mind, the moral and the intellectual, I left
drawing closer to that truth for whose partial knowledge I was
condemned to such a terrifying shipwreck: that man is not one
actually, if not two." page 47. This would be explained as the interest itself of
Dr. Jekyll, the renowned and memorable citizen, in the power to escape from
its position to perpetuate its internal desires for evil reveals to us
transparently this human condition consisting of the desire to liberate
the internal tensions and drives that run counter to, for example,
social customs and habits.
In conclusion, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel.
which unfolds discussed opinions on the duality of the human being,
clearly explain how people are one, but always
we are mindful of the good and bad in our actions, each one of
the characters embody values and virtues that are explored: kindness,
evil, seriousness, and each of the elements of the narrative contributes
a mysterious atmosphere such that the only escape for the reader from this tension
is to continue and continue reading to finally find, in the end a
virtuous and profound conclusion that simply shows us a
a quite clear angle of the very reality of a society very similar
to the current one.