E 350 Lecture Notes - Tangled
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He feels that he is two different personas (upright and immoral) and wishes to be pure (duplicity), must repress desires, afraid of losing status/credibility/wealth, managing money responsibly. He is able to devote his time to goodness, hyde doesn"t feel pressure to conform to society, hyde acts on jekyll"s pleasures, physical identity changed. Aside from jekyll"s explanation that his evil self is much less exercised and much less exhausted than his better self, why do you think it is necessary for hyde"s character to look so. Why do you think jekyll"s own abjection ultimately consumes him? (i. e. what does the strange. Case of dr jekyll and mr hyde reveal about the process or significance of throwing off the. Tangled contradictions fundamental to [our] existence onto abjections?)
